Sarah Who?

Craig Ferguson may have described Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as a "sexy librarian" but you can make book on the fact that she is one kick-ass addition to the McCain ticket. The former Miss Alaska runner up has an 86% approval rating in the Last Frontier, making her the most popular governor in the country. That's pretty astounding considering that in a democracy like America you'd be hard pressed to find 86% of people to endorse free pizza, never mind a freshman Republican governor.

Very few of us in the Lower 48 care about Alaska and even fewer of us will actually cough up the airfare to visit someday (for $2,000 r/t I'm going someplace that isn't cold enough to support polar bears). Figuring that there had to be something more compelling than Alaska's 3 electoral votes to choose a virtually unknown like Sarah Palin, I did a bit of research. Here's what I found:

Sarah Palin is 44 years old, making her the first governor in Alaska's history to be be born after statehood was achieved.

Governor Palin ran road races as a child and became a star on her high school basketball team. Her style of play was so ferocious that she earned the nickname "Sarah Barracuda".

She majored in journalism at the University of Idaho. After college she worked as a sports reporter for a local Alaska news station.

Sarah Palin married her high school sweetheart and became a mother of 5. Her oldest son is an enlistee in the US Army; her youngest son was recently diagnosed with Downs Syndrome.

Governor Palin is a real deal Republican: she is pro-life, pro-gun, pro-capital punishment, and pro-drilling. Agree? Disagree? Discuss.

As Governor she officially stopped construction on the $400 million "Bridge To Nowhere", largely considered one of the worst examples of government pork barrel spending in the history of Congress.

Furious that her predecessor wasted tax payer money on an airplane, she auctioned it off on eBay for $2.1 million and reimbursed the state treasury.

She has often been compared to England's Margaret Thatcher, aka: the Iron Lady.

I'm not really sure if that's good or bad, though.

Her husband Todd is a commercial fisherman and competive snowmobile racer. Citing his wife's position as Governor, he is often referred to as "Alaska's First Dude".

A VP from Alaska = Cheap Oil and Yummy Alaskan Salmon.

A VP from Delaware = Traffic/Ridiculous Tolls on the Delaware Memorial Bridge and corporate tax shelters.

I'm going with option A here, folks