She helped the team win the Alaska small-school basketball championship in 1982, hitting a critical free throw in the last seconds of the game, despite having an ankle stress fracture at the time...and was the leader of team prayer before games.

In 1984, Palin won the Miss Wasilla beauty contest, then finished second in the Miss Alaska pageant...In the Wasilla pageant, she played the flute, and won the title of "Miss Congeniality."

She then briefly worked as a sports reporter for local Anchorage television stations while also working in commerical fishing with her husband.

Palin began her political career in 1992, running for Wasilla City Council, as the supporter of the controversial new sales taxand with an advertisement advocating "a safer, more progrssive Wasilla." She also increased the city sales tax to pay for construction of an indoor ice rink and sports complex.

Governor Murkowski appointed Palin Ethics Commissioner of the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, where she served from 2003 to 2004 until resigning in protest over what she called the "lack of ethics" of fellow Alaskan Republican leaders.

Palin has strongly promoted oil resource development in Alaska. In response to high oil and gas prices, and the resulting state government budget surplus, Palin proposed giving Alaskans $100-a-month energy debit cards, She subsequently dropped the debit card proposal, and in its place she proposed to send Alaskans $1,200 directly, paid for from the windfall surplus the state is getting because of the high oil prices.

In 2007, Palin approved a $150 cash incentive to aerial gunner-pilot teams for each Alaskan wolf they kill. In May 2008, Palin objected to the decision of the Secretary of the Interior, to list polar bears as an endangered species. She threatened a lawsuit to stop the listing amid fears that it would hurt oil and gas development in the bears' habitat off Alaska's northern and northwestern coasts. She said the move to list the bears was premature and was not the appropriate management tool for their welfare.

She has called the global warming theory supported by [U.S. Secretary of the Interior] Kempthrone "unreliable", and asserted that human activity has not caused Arctic ice to melt, stating that "I'm not one though who would attribute it to human activity."

Palin cancelled the bridge [to nowhere] because Alaska's congressional delegation was unable to prevent the state of Alaska from having to pay for part of the bridge's construction [this was after initially supporting the project]. Alaska still kept the federal money, but she stated that Alaska should rely less on federal funding.

Palin dismissed Public Safety Commissioner Walter Monegan...her power to fire him is not in question, but Monegan alleged that his dismissal may have been an abuse of power tied to his reluctance to fire Palin's former brother-in-law, Mike Wooten, who had been involved in a divorce and child custody battle with Palin's sister, Molly McCann. Palin is currently being investigated by an independent investigator hired by the Alaska Legislature, to determine whether she abused her power when she fired Monegan. The investigation is scheduled to end October 30, only days before the November 4 presidential election.

So, we can expect that Vice President Palin/President if she succeeds, will:

1. Look good in a suit

2. Play the flute at White House state dinners

3. Be able to accurately report the play at a Washington Redskins football game

4. Stand up for the position of the NRA without question

7. Raise taxes for pet projects, while lowering them

8. Crack down on people who piss her off in a way not seen since Nixon

9. Resign in protest if she encounters unscrupulous people and can't get her way.