Palin on CBS: THIS is a pitbull with lipstick?

COURIC: Have you ever been involved with any negotations, for example, with the Russians?

PALIN: We have trade missions back and forth...

Now, if it were me, despite looking far too stubbly to carry off the lipstick, and if I were gonna have to choose an answer, I'd have been relieved that I'd just mumbled something useful and chase that down humbly and talk up it's relevance.

We have trade missions back and forth... No, I haven't sat at UN peace tables. But I think there's plenty of good to be done at state level. Our fishing fleets and operators below the Bering Strait interact more with Russians on a daily basis than most likely the US Navy does. Alaska's interactions with Russia are frequent, but they're on levels that most people can understand. Trade between communities. Emergency cooperation on rescues and protocols for working together in dangerous waters. We share interests and intiatives in working on keeping our fishing industries and practices sound. In some ways, our people have more in common and more unique contact with Bering Sea Russian communities than any of the other 49 states do. Am I jetting around the world? No. Do I have some understanding of our previously deadly foe? I think so.

THAT is how an actual pitbull, lipstick or no, would do it. I know pitbulls. I have chewed bones with pitbulls, and been nipped by pitbulls. You, Madam Governor, are no pitbull.

And she's actually a quite mediocre poodle.