
In a way, at this point, it is hard to be shocked by anything Sarah Palin does. Her time on the national political stage has been marked by scandal, controversy, and general wackiness all around. It’s been almost a year since John McCain selected Sarah Palin to be his running mate in the 2008 election; our first introduction to Palin was as Sarah Barracuda, the pitbull in lipstick, the threat that could steal disenchanted Clinton supporters away from the Obama/Biden ticket based only on the fact Palin and Clinton shared a gender, and little else, in terms of policy or political views. But weeks later, the weirdness kicked in and only snowballed from there; the rumors, and later confirmation of, Bristol’s pregnancy, the rumors that Palin might not have given birth to her son, Trig, the Troopergate scandal, the Bridge…






