Until recently, the fever dream that's been the race for the 2016 GOP presidential nomination has been devoid of the party's favorite rogue, Sarah Palin.
But that's changed in recent days and now the former governor of Alaska is even angling for a cabinet position should Donald Trump win the White House.
Palin interviewed Trump last week on the conservative One America News network, a network presumably for those who think Fox News is just too left-wing. During the course of the chat, Palin called Trump's campaign "avant-garde" and the two bounced off each other well, which is hardly a surprise given the surreal nature of their fire-breathing rhetoric that has already made them media pals.
And now Palin is volunteering for a spot in President Trump's cabinet, particularly as Energy Secretary. Appearing Sunday morning on CNN's State of the Union, Palin said, "I think a lot about the Department of Energy, because energy is my baby: oil and gas and minerals, those things that God has dumped on this part of the Earth for mankind's use instead of us relying on unfriendly foreign nations."
Palin, known for her rallying cry from the 2008 election of "drill, baby, drill," sees the job as a short-term one, eventually relinquishing control of lands used for energy purposes to the states.
For his part, Trump has previously said he'd love to have Palin in his cabinet.
Of course, that was hardly the only thing Palin said of note during the interview with CNN's Jake Tapper. Perhaps the quote most likely to raise eyebrows was her comment on immigration, in which she called for immigrants to "speak American." Though she would correct herself, using the phrase "speak English," the Internet still had its fun.
Hey, @rosettastone! Wondering when you are planning on releasing American to the public. Asking for Sarah Palin. Thanks!— Jeremy Pond (@JeremyPond) September 6, 2015
Sarah Palin wants everyone to speak American, which I'm guessing is a dialect of either Iroquois or Algonquin.— Sean Kent (@seankent) September 6, 2015
Next up: Sarah Palin accuses the English of co-opting the official American language, American— Samantha Shannon (@say_shannon) September 6, 2015
The full quote came after she praised Jeb Bush's bilingual talents:
"I think we can send a message and say you want to be in America, A, you'd better be here legally or you're out of here, B, when you're here, let's speak American. I mean that's what's - let's speak English and that's a kind of a unifying aspect of the nation is the language that is understood by all.”
If Trump fails to win the election and, thereby, denies Palin a cabinet post, she'll still have that critical and lucrative media criticism career to fall back on.