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Sarah Palin: Former Beauty Queen, Current VP Candidate (PHOTOS)
Who is Sarah Palin? Here's a quick rundown of her resumé: she's the former point guard and captain of the Wasilla (Alaska) High School Warriors who went on to become Miss Wasilla 1984 before working as a local news sports reporter who then served as city councilwoman and mayor of the ...
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McCain’s V.P. Pick
floppingaces.net 8/29/2008 — Sarah Palin!!! From Fox News : Born in Idaho, Palin moved to Alaska with her parents, to Charles and Sally Heath, when she was 3 months old. She grew up in Wasilla, just outside of Anchorage, and played on the Wasilla state championship girls’ basketball team. She was crowned ...
Sarah Palin?
WWW.samefacts.com 8/29/2008 — So it would appear; there must have been a leak, because InTrade suddenly has her at 90 cents bid. Uh-oh; Cindy better watch out. Another former beauty queen.
Sarah Palin Sexism Watch, #1
shakespearessister.blogspot.com 8/31/2008 — Well, that took—what?—an hour? Petulant just emailed me to say he heard someone on the Stephanie Miller Show calling Palin a "bimbo." (Presumably because she's a former beauty queen.) And I'm already reading indictments of "her" that include ...
Palin Dodges Tough Questions About Existence of "Alaska"
jimtreacher.com 9/3/2008 — By Howard Kurtz Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, September 3, 2008; A1 Media Bubble, Sept. 2 -- Embattled former beauty queen Sarah Palin* continued to wilt yesterday under the pressure of numerous fair, evenhanded media questions regarding the ...
So much for the redneck beauty queen mayor of a pissant town
wizbangblog.com 9/4/2008 — Sarah Palin is about half way through her speech and so far she is killing. This woman has all her teeth, she can speak in complete sentences, and she has...
My immediate first thought when I heard it might be Palin...
bgalrstate.blogspot.com 8/29/2008 — ...swear to Gd the first thing I thought was, " Princess Sparkle Pony's prayers have been answered." He's had fun with Condi and had to switch his satire to Ursula Plassnik (foreign minister for Austria) but now McCain has chosen the runner-up from Miss Alaska 1984 (no, really.) for his ...
Welcome To WasillaHotline On Call Part Deux
Voters' lives in this tiny, picturesque town, located in the Matanuska-Susitna Borough of AK, are about to change. Make sure you're up to speed on all things Wasilla by checking out its website .
Live on the ground in Wasilla, Alaska, where Palin used to be mayorOpen Left - Front Page
Oddly enough, I'm spending a week with my parents in Wasilla, AK, where Sarah was mayor for before becoming governor just two years ago. As y'all are learning, Sarah's political career outside of Wasilla has been just two years as Governor, so her experience in Wasilla is sure to be discussed ...
Sarah Palin: Keeping Alaska Safe From Terrorism for Almost Two YearsThe Latest on Air America
Before her role in fighting terrorism in Alaska as the current Governor, Sarah Palin served on the Wasilla City Council and then spent two terms as Mayor/Manager of Wasilla, Alaska. Not once during her service were the 5500 residents of Wasilla attacked by terrorists. Since assuming the office ...
VPILF: Sarah PalinThe Jawa Report
Sarah Palin: Miss Wasilla 1984 Nyctalus lasiopterus says Ace coined the phrase. I'm not sure what VPILF stands for, but somehow I find it easy to believe that Ace's morons were behind it....
Aside: Lorie Byrd On Redneck Beauty QueensPirate's Cove
Heh heh. So much for the redneck beauty queen mayor of a pissant town . You tell ‘em, Lorie! Copyright © 2008 Pirate's Cove . This Feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If you are not reading this material in your news aggregator, the site you are looking at is guilty of ...
McCain's gamble on PalinUSS Neverdock
The BBC piles on. "What we know already about Sarah Palin is extraordinary enough. It's difficult to know where to start. The moose stew. The former Wasilla beauty queen and Miss Congeniality who is a better shot than current Vice-President Dick Cheney. " You left out some not so small ...
The Beauty Pageant Vote, UndecidedNews
As a beauty queen herself, Angela McDermott feels a special kinship with Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R), who likely is the most famous Miss Wasilla, Alaska, in the history of Miss Wasilla pageant. "I'm a little biased," said McDermott, 24, outside the Xcel Energy Center floor after she sang the ...
"McCain gave us... a former beauty queen as the person who could be asked to take over the White House in an emergency if anything happened to [him]."Althouse
Writes Andrew Sullivan. So we get to pick whatever "former" activity of a candidate that seems least presidential and call them that? Do you really want to go there? The Democratic Party gave us a former cocaine user/community activist to take over the White House without even a stint as Vice ...
Is Palin running for veep or tin horn dictator?Comments from Left Field
Even from from days as mayor of Wasilla, she has a history of firing officials on a whim . In this case, the Wasilla police chief supported her election opponent in 1996, so she fired him for “not fully supporting her efforts to govern”. Is that even legal? Palin even managed to ...
How Very EmbarrassingEschaton
We all make mistakes, but how bad do your critical thinking skills have to be for you to actually buy into the possibility that Wasilla, AK, is larger than the state of Delaware. And shame on me for, when I first posted this, thinking that Ramesh was using the correct spelling of "Wasilla."
Stunned By PalinSeeing the Forest
I admit to being stunned by McCain's VP choice of Sarah Palin. She is a stunning beauty queen who has served a stunning two years as Governor of Alaska after serving a stunning two terms on the...
Palin: A Brilliant Trap?JammieWearingFool
Kirsten Powers seems to think John McCain laid out the trap for Team Obama, and they bit right away. SHE'S just a beauty queen. She's another Dan Quayle. And ironically, the biggest criticism of Sarah Palin, John McCain's veep choice, is she has no experience. Funny, coming from the Barack ...
McCain and the Beauty QueenThe Moderate Voice
Nate Beeler, The Washington Examiner
Art Levine: Sarah Palin: The New Harriet Miers -- or Dan Quayle in Drag?Politics on HuffingtonPost.com
McCain's stunning choice of the ex-beauty queen, evangelical half-term Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin may be one of the biggest political gambles in modern political history. But if the Democrats can avoid over-the-top sexism in belittling her, the pick could be a major boon to the ...
Summing Up The First Look At Anti-Choice, Creationist Sarah PalinThe Democratic Daily
Ok. Let’s get down to it. A former beauty queen , with no substantive political experience, who is anti-choice and a creationist , and therefore anti-science, is now supposed to become the Vice President. She would be just one heatbeat away from the Presidency. Doddering around the Oval ...
What the Hell? Sarah Who? An Anti-Choice Creationist? What Scandal In Alaska?The Democratic Daily
If you are confused by the choice of a person who has very little political experience and no national experience, join the crowd. If you said, “Sarah who? Who the hell is she?” Join the crowd. Let’s flesh out a little bit of history of Sarah Palin . A former beauty queen ( ...
Palin: From Beauty Queen to Ethics ReformerDrudge Retort
Sarah Palin was a hockey mom, small-town mayor and rising young Republican star in Alaska in 2003 when she ran afoul of her party's establishment over ethics reform and was cast into the political wilderness.
Brains, Cojones AND BeautyBabalú Blog: an island on the net without a bearded dictator
A triple threat. I just found out that Governor Palin came in 2nd place in the 1984 Miss Alaska Pageant. I'd say she has traded up in her competitions since then....
Trig Paxson Van Palin: Sarah Palin Talks About Having A Down Syndrome Baby (PHOTOS)The Huffington Post | Full News Feed
When Sarah Palin gave birth on April 18th to son Trig Paxson Van Palin, she issued the following statement: "Trig is beautiful and already adored by us. We knew through early testing he would face special challenges, and we feel privileged that God would entrust us with this gift and allow ...
Amb. Marc Ginsberg: Snow White & The Seven DwarfsPolitics on HuffingtonPost.com
Incredibly stunning to say the least, yet even on reasonably practical reflection, we may be witnessing another Dan Quayle selection moment in American politics. First termer and former beauty queen Gov. Sarah Palin! Was she that fully vetted? Can't wait to read all of her speeches in support ...
Sarah Palin Seen as GOP Rising StarFOXNews.com
Sarah Palin, John McCain’s vice presidential pick and the first female governor of Alaska, is seen as a rising star within the Republican Party. She became the youngest person to assume the top office of the 49th State in 2006. Her ...
Comics tread lightly with Palin pregnancymsnbc.com: Politics
Late-night comics were careful when joking about the pregnancy of Gov. Sarah Palin's unwed teen daughter. Three of the jokesters used John Edwards as a punchline.
Profiles of PalinFirst Read
“Since long before she became Alaska's youngest -- and first female -- governor 20 months ago, Sarah Louise Heath Palin has been making her mark as an unlikely upstart,” the Washington Post writes. “Yesterday, she did it again, accepting Sen. John ...
Palin a gun-toting former beauty queen known for ambition and gritL.A. Times - Politics
Alaska's governor and McCain's VP selection is enormously popular in her state, despite some tensions with other Alaska Republicans. > The country, most of ...