History UsefulNotes / SarahPalin

* ''Website/CollegeHumor'' has a video where her running for vice president is just a Creator/{{Disney}} movie of a hockey mom (played by Liz Cackowski) becoming president called "Head of Skate," ending with a hockey match between her and UsefulNotes/VladimirPutin. This came from an interview where Creator/MattDamon slammed her "hockey mom" persona, saying that her whole story (typical suburban wife and mother sliding up the political ladder to president) sounded like the plot of a bad Disney movie.

* ''Website/CollegeHumor'' has a video where her running for vice president is just a Creator/{{Disney}} movie of a hockey mom becoming president called "Head of Skate," ending with a hockey match between her and UsefulNotes/VladimirPutin. This came from an interview where Creator/MattDamon slammed her "hockey mom" persona, saying that her whole story (typical suburban wife and mother sliding up the political ladder to president) sounded like the plot of a bad Disney movie.

* Jill-Michele Melean (of [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/MadTV1995 MADtv]] fame) filmed a web comedy skit with the - now defunct - [[https://www.youtube.com/@WatchLeaksTV LeaksTV]] channel on a video titled [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxbruT2XGW4&list=LL&index=621 Michelle Bachmann and Sarah Palin Phone Sex]] (ActingForTwo as both Palin and Bachmann) - which is exactly what it sounds like ... with a much younger actor showing up at the end as Texas Governor (and then-Presidential candidate) Rick Perry to join in for good measure.

* ''WebVideo/EpicRapBattlesOfHistory'' pits her (played by Lisa Nova) against Music/LadyGaga. Her representation is more or less accurate to her real life self rather than any parody, though a lot of the points mentioned up above about her usual portrayal are referenced.

* Jill-Michele Melean (of [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/MadTV1995 MADtv]] fame) filmed a web comedy skit with the - now defunct - [[https://www.youtube.com/@WatchLeaksTV LeaksTV]] channel on a video titled [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxbruT2XGW4&list=LL&index=621 Michelle Bachmann and Sarah Palin Phone Sex]] (ActingForTwo as both Palin and Bachmann) - which is exactly what it sounds like ... with an much younger actor showing up at the end as Texas Governor (and then-Presidential candidate) Rick Perry to join in for good measure.

* ''WebVideo/EpicRapBattlesOfHistory'' pits her against Music/LadyGaga. Her representation is more or less accurate to her real life self rather than any parody, though a lot of the points mentioned up above about her usual portrayal are referenced.

* [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Music/SeanCombs P. Diddy]] attained newfound celebrity during the 2008 Presidential election by uploading more than 30 Vlogs - or "Diddy Blogs" - to his [[https://www.youtube.com/@seancombs BadBoyRecords]] [=YouTube=] channel, several of them reacting to John [=McCain's=] selection of Sarah Palin for his running mate ([[https://www.tmz.com/watch/0-7o095f12/ "[=McCain=] is Buggin' the F*** Out!"]]). [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70wGnx_lZio Diddy Blog Post #24]]- in response to Palin's infamous Katie Couric interview - had the rapper crouched under a blanket in a dark room with a flashlight under his face (parodying [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/TheBlairWitchProject The Blair Witch Project]]), whispering "She scares me..." into the camera ("Boys and girls -- Did you hear her? Did you hear?! John [=McCain=] is 72! Sarah Palin could be the President!"). The Vlogs went the 2000s version of viral, and even scored a mention in [[https://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1854557_1854530_1854527,00.html Time Magazine.]] [[/folder]]

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* [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Music/SeanCombs P. Diddy]] attained newfound celebrity during the 2008 Presidential election by uploading more than 30 Vlogs - or "Diddy Blogs" - to his [[https://www.youtube.com/@seancombs BadBoyRecords]] [=YouTube=] channel, several of them reacting to John [=McCain's=] selection of Sarah Palin for his running mate ([[https://www.tmz.com/watch/0-7o095f12/ "[=McCain=] is Buggin' the F*** Out!"]]). [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70wGnx_lZio Diddy Blog Post #24]]- in response to Palin's infamous Katie Couric interview - had the rapper crouched under a blanket in a dark room with a flashlight under his face (parodying [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/TheBlairWitchProject The Blair Witch Project]]), whispering "She scares me..." into the camera ("Boys and girls -- Did you hear her? Did you hear?! John [=McCain=] is 72! Sarah Palin could be the President!"). The Vlogs went the 2000s version of viral, and even scored a mention in [[https://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1854557_1854530_1854527,00.html Time Magazine.]]

-->-- '''Sarah Palin'''

From that point onward, Palin's public persona has largely been defined, rightly or wrongly, by her SoBadItsGood [[{{Malaproper}} absurd]] politispeak. Politicians in general are considered AcceptableTargets, and the Couric interview turned Palin into a lightning rod for it. When she appears or is mentioned in most fictional media, she will take on these traits largely [[RuleOfFunny because it's funny]]. Incidentally, her popular culture portrayal reached an extent that lines Tina Fey would say while impersonating Sarah Palin would be taken out of context and attributed to Palin ''[[TheTysonZone as though she herself said them]]''.

In 2008, she was [[AscendedExtra abruptly thrust]] onto the pop culture radar after Republican presidential nominee John [=McCain=] chose her as his vice presidential running mate against Democrats UsefulNotes/BarackObama and UsefulNotes/JoeBiden. She was the second female vice presidential nominee of a major party in U.S. history (the first being Democrat Geraldine Ferraro in 1984), and the first of the Republican Party. In July 2009, Palin [[OptOut resigned her position as governor]] with 18 months remaining in her first term, one of the official reasons being saving the costs to the Alaskan budget of defending herself [[FrivolousLawsuit against detractors]]; said detractors have naturally offered a different explanation. Since then she has toured the country as a paid speaker and founded the conservative political action committee [=SarahPAC=]. She was for a while considered the likely frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination in 2012, but ultimately declined to run, likely because polls showed that, while she was still popular among the Republican grassroots and would have stood a decent (though by no means certain) chance of clinching the nomination, she would have faired poorly against Obama in the actual election.

There are shows out there which try to treat Palin as a more serious, dignified individual, but these simply don't have the same PopculturalOsmosis value largely because they just aren't as entertaining to most of the kind of people who would read Website/ThisVeryWiki. As for studies on her role in politics and American history, the main debate will probably be whether she were the youthful and energetic shot in the arm that [=McCain's=] campaign needed or [=McCain's=] [[TheLoad load]] whose popularity and fanbase came at the expense of his own. The years since have seen some comparisons with UsefulNotes/BarryGoldwater's presidential run in 1964, in that while both Palin and Goldwater were parts of heavily-derided presidential tickets that suffered landslide defeats, they nonetheless served to shift the Republican Party more towards populist conservatism and set the stage for future presidential tickets that were more electorally successful (UsefulNotes/RichardNixon and especially UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan in Goldwater's case, UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump in Palin's). On [=McCain's=] part, he came to regret the decision to pick her as his running mate by the time he died in August 2018. He saw her as too inexperienced and felt like he had been pressured into picking her. He had initially wanted his good friend Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman, but had to back down under threat of a right wing revolt because Lieberman had been a Democrat until two years prior. Palin wasn't invited to McCain's funeral.

There are shows out there which try to treat Palin as a more serious, dignified individual, but these simply don't have the same PopculturalOsmosis value largely because they just aren't as entertaining to most of the kind of people who would read Website/ThisVeryWiki. As for studies on her role in politics and American history, the main debate will probably be whether she were the youthful and energetic shot in the arm that [=McCain's=] campaign needed or [=McCain's=] [[TheLoad load]] whose popularity and fanbase came at the expense of his own. The years since have seen some comparisons with UsefulNotes/BarryGoldwater's presidential run in 1964, in that while both Palin and Goldwater were parts of heavily-derided presidential tickets that suffered landslide defeats, they nonetheless served to shift the Republican Party more towards populist conservatism and set the stage for future presidential tickets that were more electorally successful (UsefulNotes/RichardNixon and especially UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan in Goldwater's case, UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump in Palin's). On [=McCain's=] part, he came to regret the decision to pick her as his running mate by the time he died in August 2018. He saw her as too inexperienced and felt like he had been pressured into picking her. He had initially wanted his good friend Connecticut Democratic Senator Joe Lieberman, but had to back down under threat of a right wing revolt. She wasn't invited to his funeral.

Needless to say, anyone looking for a nuanced and balanced political discussion of Palin's influence in America is on the wrong wiki. Portrayals (or parodies) of Palin in modern media typically hit on at least one of these notes: being from small-town Alaska, with all of the provincialism this implies; a love of hunting, guns, and the outdoors; being the mother of a child with Down Syndrome; speaking with an energetic-if-idiosyncratic style with many {{neologism}}s (and in an [[UsefulNotes/AmericanAccents accent]] that sounds ''exactly'' like Marge Gunderson in ''Film/{{Fargo}}''); and being more attractive than the average politician, maybe even mentioning that she participated in beauty pageants.[[note]]Palin won the Miss Wasilla beauty pageant in 1984; she finished third (as second runner-up) in the Miss Alaska pageant.[[/note]] Her actual political value, as far as we can tell, has very little to do with these things.

Unlike most politicians on the TV Tropes wiki, Sarah Palin isn't notable for her politics so much as her effect on pop culture. When she entered the public stage as John [=McCain=]'s running mate, she was a surprise pick and a virtual unknown,[[note]]prior to her nomination, the two favorites for the spot among political commentators were Mitt Romney and Tim Pawlenty, with [=McCain=]'s close friend Joe Lieberman generally being seen as the most out-there plausible pick[[/note]] her major league political experience amounting to two years as governor of the nation's most sparsely populated state. The reason for her nomination stemmed from her strongly conservative views ([=McCain=]'s relative centrism by the standards of the 2008 Republican Party was generally seen as a weakness, with Palin coming in as a much more representative example of the party's base), her age ([=McCain=] was 72 during the 2008 election, with his VP pick actually happeneing on his birthday. Palin at 44 was seen as bringing a younger balance to the nomination while helping to ease fears about [=McCain=]'s health, particularly as he had been a multiple-time cancer survivor), and her gender (On the Democratic Party side, the battle between Obama and Hillary Clinton had been a rough one, and Palin was suggested to be someone who could attract Clinton supporters to the Republican ticket). This gamble appeared to pay of when she energized the base with a strong, well-received speech at the Republican convention. Her charisma gave the [=McCain=] campaign a much-needed bump in the polls. However, when she was interviewed by Katie Couric of Creator/{{CBS}} Evening News (this was only Palin's third interview since being selected as running mate), she confounded viewers with her disorganized answers. Entertainment and political humor programs like ''Series/TheDailyShowWithJonStewart'' instantly took notice, presenting Palin as an earnest but somewhat incoherent hick swimming in a situation far over her head. Her comic persona was cemented with a ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' sketch starring Creator/TinaFey that parodied the interview... without even having to [[QuoteMine change very much of the dialogue]].

Unlike most politicians on the TV Tropes wiki, Sarah Palin isn't notable for her politics so much as her effect on pop culture. When she entered the public stage as John [=McCain=]'s running mate, she was a virtual unknown, but she energized the base with a strong, well-received speech at the Republican convention. Her charisma gave the [=McCain=] campaign a much-needed bump in the polls. However, when she was interviewed by Katie Couric of Creator/{{CBS}} Evening News (this was only Palin's third interview since being selected as running mate), she confounded viewers with her disorganized answers. Entertainment and political humor programs like ''Series/TheDailyShowWithJonStewart'' instantly took notice, presenting Palin as an earnest but somewhat incoherent hick swimming in a situation far over her head. Her comic persona was cemented with a ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' sketch starring Creator/TinaFey that parodied the interview... without even having to [[QuoteMine change very much of the dialogue]].

In 2008, she was [[AscendedExtra abruptly thrust]] onto the pop culture radar after Republican presidential nominee John [=McCain=] chose her as his vice presidential running mate against Democrats UsefulNotes/BarackObama and UsefulNotes/JoeBiden. She was the second female vice presidential nominee of a major party in U.S. history (the first being Democrat Geraldine Ferraro in 1984), and the first of the Republican Party. In July 2009, Palin [[OptOut resigned her position as governor]] with 18 months remaining in her first term, one of the official reasons being saving the costs to the Alaskan budget of defending herself [[FrivolousLawsuit against detractors]]; said detractors have naturally offered a different explanation. Since then she has toured the country as a paid speaker and founded the conservative political action committee [=SarahPAC=].

There are shows out there which try to treat Palin as a more serious, dignified individual, but these simply don't have the same PopculturalOsmosis value largely because they just aren't as entertaining to most of the kind of people who would read Website/ThisVeryWiki. As for studies on her role in politics and American history, the main debate will probably be whether she were the youthful and energetic shot in the arm that [=McCain's=] campaign needed or [=McCain's=] [[TheLoad load]] whose popularity and fanbase came at the expense of his own. On [=McCain's=] part, he came to regret the decision to pick her as his running mate by the time he died in August 2018. He saw her as too inexperienced and felt like he had been pressured into picking her. He had initially wanted his good friend Connecticut Democratic Senator Joe Lieberman, but had to back down under threat of a right wing revolt. She wasn't invited to his funeral.

In 2022, Palin made her first run for public office since 2008 when she ran in the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Alaska%27s_at-large_congressional_district_special_election special]] and [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_United_States_House_of_Representatives_election_in_Alaska general]] election for Alaska's single, at-large congressional seat after Don Young, who had held the seat since 1973 and was the Dean of the House of Representatives[[note]]longest continuously-serving member of the House[[/note]], died on March 18, 2022. She lost to Democrat Mary Peltola in both elections.

Sarah Louise Palin (née Heath, born February 11, 1964) is an American politician who served as the ninth Governor of UsefulNotes/{{Alaska}} from 2006 until 2009.

In 2008 she was [[AscendedExtra abruptly thrust]] onto the pop culture radar by becoming Republican presidential nominee John [=McCain=]'s running mate against Democrats UsefulNotes/BarackObama and UsefulNotes/JoeBiden. She was the second female vice-presidential candidate from a major party in US history (the first being Geraldine Ferraro in 1984), and the first from the Republican Party. In July 2009, Palin [[OptOut resigned her position as governor]] with 18 months remaining in her first term, one of the official reasons being saving the costs to the Alaskan budget of defending herself [[FrivolousLawsuit against detractors]]; said detractors have naturally offered a different explanation. Since then she has toured the country as a paid speaker and founded the conservative political action committee [=SarahPAC=].

In March 2022; Palin announced she was a candidate for the 2022 [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Alaska%27s_at-large_congressional_district_special_election special]] and [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_United_States_House_of_Representatives_election_in_Alaska general]] election for Alaska's single, at-large Congressional seat when Don Young, who had held the seat since 1973 and was the Dean of the House of Representatives[[note]]longest continuously-serving member of the House[[/note]], died on March 18, 2022. She lost to Democrat Mary Peltola.

[[NamesTheSame No relation to]] Creator/MichaelPalin (though Creator/JohnCleese said she replaced him as "the funniest Palin"). Or ''VideoGame/{{Bayonetta}}'', despite the resemblance...

There are shows out there which try to treat Palin as a more serious, dignified individual, but these simply don't have the same PopculturalOsmosis value largely because they just aren't as entertaining to most of the kind of people who would read Website/ThisVeryWiki. As for studies on her role in politics and American history, the main debate will probably be whether she were the youthful and energetic shot in the arm that [=McCain's=] campaign needed or [=McCain's=] PoisonousFriend whose popularity and fanbase came at the expense of his own. On [=McCain's=] part, he came to regret the decision to pick her as his running mate by the time he died in August 2018. He saw her as too inexperienced and felt like he had been pressured into picking her. He had initially wanted his good friend Connecticut Democratic Senator Joe Lieberman, but had to back down under threat of a right wing revolt. She wasn't invited to his funeral.

As just a few moments' worth of internet research can handily show, Palin has detractors white-hot enough to be seen from space, yet it seems just as many people love her -- possibly ''because'' she can make left-wingers froth at the mouth without even trying. So please, for the love of God, when discussing her, '''[[Administrivia/RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgment think before you edit]]'''.

In March 2022; Palin announced she was a candidate for the 2022 [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Alaska%27s_at-large_congressional_district_special_election special]] and [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_United_States_House_of_Representatives_election_in_Alaska general]] election for Alaska's single, at-large Congressional seat when Don Young, who had held the seat since 1973 and was the Dean of the House of Representatives[[note]]longest continuously-serving member of the House[[/note]], died on March 18, 2022.

There are shows out there which try to treat Palin as a more serious, dignified individual, but these simply don't have the same PopculturalOsmosis value largely because they just aren't as entertaining to most of the kind of people who would read Wiki/ThisVeryWiki. As for studies on her role in politics and American history, the main debate will probably be whether she were the youthful and energetic shot in the arm that [=McCain's=] campaign needed or [=McCain's=] PoisonousFriend whose popularity and fanbase came at the expense of his own. On [=McCain's=] part, he came to regret the decision to pick her as his running mate by the time he died in August 2018. He saw her as too inexperienced and felt like he had been pressured into picking her. He had initially wanted his good friend Connecticut Democratic Senator Joe Lieberman, but had to back down under threat of a right wing revolt. She wasn't invited to his funeral.

* Music/TheMidnightBeast's {{parody}} of Music/{{Kesha}}'s "[=TiK ToK=]" uses Palin to play on the original's odd [[Music/TheRollingStones Mick Jagger]] line: