Palin and Miss South Carolina: Any Similarities?
Seeing Alaska Gov. (and McCain Vice-Presidential nominee) Sarah Palin be interviewed by Katy Couric gave me a strange sense of deja vu. Where had I heard this before? Then it came to me…
Here is the CBS News interview – discussing her foreign policy experience:
And here is what I had heard before:
Miss Teen USA South Carolina contestant.
Any similarities?
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