Palin - the first ever?

When conducting research for my previous posting I came across this. It seems that I can’t include three youtube clips in one posting, and it is a shame not to share this if you haven’t already seen it.

If Palin does become the nominee for 2012, she will, as far as I know, become the first de facto leader of a major political party in a modern liberal democracy who has a history of participating in a quite different type of contest. If politics is showbiz for ugly people, what does this say?