Sarah Palin

Sarah Palin announces that she is stepping down as Alaska's governor. "She felt that the pressures of the job combined with her family obligations and the demands and desires to help other Republican candidates led her to decide not to run again.
In the presidential race, Palin became the butt of talk-show jokes and Democratic criticism after news broke that the Republican Party had spent $150,000 or more on a designer wardrobe, accessories and hair and makeup services for her. The high-end spending spree contrasted with the down-to-earth image she sought to craft for herself and became an unwelcome issue for the McCain campaign.
Finally, there is that scrappy thing. She genuinely was a good and tough point guard. And in an Alaska bar fight, I would bet on her any day against the boys who leaked bad stuff about her anonymously to Todd Purdum of Vanity Fair. Palin comes from the core of the core GOP demographic: rural, Protestant, married and churchgoing. She is in THAT mainstream."What the difference between a hockey mom and a pitbull? "LIPSTICK"