Today's St. Louis Post Dispatch carried a metro story about a local St. Louisian who grew in Wahilla Alaska and attended Wahilla High School with Sarah Palin. Amy Gwin is the director of agency relations for the Rodgers Townsend advertising firm here in St. Louis.
Amy Gwin was also a competitor with Ms. Palin in 1984 in a local beauty pageant for the title of Miss Wahilla Alaska. Amy Gwin notes that her rival won the Miss Wahilla title but she (Amy) won the Miss Congeniality award. However Ms. Palin's own entry in Wikipedia states the something different:
In 1984, Palin won the Miss Wasilla beauty contest, then finished second in the Miss Alaska pageant, at which she won a college scholarship. In the Wasilla pageant, she played the flute and won "Miss Congeniality. (Italics are mine)
Why would Sarah Palin feel the need to lie about something as trivial as winning Miss Congeniality in a hicktown beauty pageant in 1984? After enduring 8 years of George Bush telling lies about his military history, his drunk driving record, his insider trading, WMD, and nearly everything under the sun, Ms. Palin is certainly getting off on the wrong foot with her fib, however minor. In my experience the same people who tell little white lies are same amoral folks who tell us big black lies as well.
Amy Gwin's own evaluation of Sarah Palin, having know her since childhood is:
She is very shallow. I was astounded when she got the nod for VP. I wouldn't vote for her if she was my very best friend.
Whoa!...That's some great character reference you got from Amy Gwin who is usually so congenial, she won the Miss Congeniality title, not you Sarah.
What's a matter Sarah?... Do you come completely unglued by an old friendly rivalry with an old high school classmate? Just scream and let out all of that pent-up anger toward the real Miss Congeniality, Amy Gwin. She won the title fair and square, so don't have a cow, Sarah!
Sarah Palin's old high school nickname of Sarah Barracuda presumably wasn't earned by acting like Miss Congeniality in a beauty pageant. She sounds like the social climbing cheerleader who terrorizes the freaks and geeks in a John Hughes movie.
It's a good thing Sarah Palin found a good outlet for her anger in making a career out of the divisive Republican politics of fear. Her Wicki profile say the following about her political positions:
Palin is pro-life, a prominent member of Feminists for Life and supports the death penalty In 2002, Palin called herself as "pro-life as any candidate can be." Palin has said she has good friends who are but opposes same sex marriage. She supported a non-binding referendum for a constitutional amendment to deny benefits to homosexual couples. Palin has stated that she supported the She has supported allowing discussion of the debate between creationism and evolution in public schools, if students bring it up, and not necessarily as part of the curriculum.Palin is a life member of the National Rifle Association, and is popular among gun rights activists.
In other words, Ms. Palin is a factory fresh fire-breathing Bushevik dragon clone straight off the assembly line at RNC headquarters. My wish for the new GOP Veep candidate?---May you live in interesting times, Sarah Barracuda.