The Truth about Sarah Palin

Sarah came on strong, declaring herself a soccer mom, which was like a pit bull with lipstick. The line, "pit bull with lipstick" was obviously designed to portray Sarah as one tough, no nonsense lady, who could turn Washington, D.C. topsy-turvy. Last August, I was in Alaska just before Sarah burst onto the national scene in the unlikely role as the GOP's vice-presidential candidate. While on that trip, I learned that the revered Alaskan woman was not a soccer mom with lipstick. Rather, she was a musher with Chapstick who ran the Iditarod or Yukon Quest with a dog team that she personally trained from pups to pull a sled that she had built herself for a race through the wilderness. So much for Sarah's claim of toughness, when the real Alaskan woman is trail tough and determined to succeed by her own merits, not by political attacks. The lady musher is a woman I admire.