Remembering the 2008 Elections

Sarah Palin's Greatest Missteps

Here is Sarah Palin's infamous speech at the Republican National Convention where she disses community organizers and makes that joke about the difference between a hockey mom and a pitbull. (The answer: lipstick.)

Here is the notorious CBS interview that Sarah Palin did with Katie Couric where she performed very badly.

During the campaign it was revealed that Sarah Palin attended an Assembly of God church whose pastor once fought against witches and witchcraft in Kenya. Then this video surfaced that shows the pastor praying over Sarah Palin for her political victory and to protect her from witchcraft. Yes, witchcraft!

Sarah Palin thinks that being Vice President means that the person is in charge of the U.S. Senate, contrary to what is said in the U.S. Constitution.

Sarah Palin speaks in front of a friendly audience at a campaign rally and she describes a domestic energy policy that sounds totally convoluted to the average person.

Sarah Palin thinks that New Hampshire is located in the Northwest.

Sarah Palin describes a "real America" and the "pro-America" areas, which are basically small rural towns.

Sarah Palin disses the idea of doing basic scientific research using fruit flies because "they have little or nothing to do with the public good." As Adam Rutherford, writing in The Guardian, explains in this article: "Why do we study this particular irritating fly for humankind's benefit? Well, because we can. Many of the pathways from gene to disease in humans can be easily reproduced in flies, or are similar enough to be incredibly useful models for understanding how diseases evolve. That's how we learn to treat them."

Here's a video that provides evidence that what she said in her campaign speeches were totally bogus (such as her claim--later proven untrue--that she opposed the infamous Bridge to Nowhere by telling Congress "thanks, but no thanks").

But the biggest Palin misstep is the one where she falls for a prank phone call by two Montreal deejays, one of whom was pretending to be French President Nicholas Sarkozy. The best part comes when the fake Sarkozy said that he really loved her documentary Nalin' Palin (which is really the title of a porn movie starring a Sarah Palin lookalike that was produced by Larry Flynt of Hustler magazine fame).