I find it a bit fun when media pulls out old pictures and in a mocked outrage points that the vice president candidate once posed on stage only wearing a swimsuit (and perhaps heels?). Well, duh that is one of the events in those competitions and it is not like she's been an employee at a strip club.. at least not that I've heard of.

I wonder if she had been a former professional swimmer, would they post the same pictures, playing on some moral issue of a barely but still clothed politician - a woman even?! *sigh*

Anyway, "beauty queen" and "hockey mom" to me spells two different kind of women. No matter what we think of her opinions and political visions, it is fascinating to have seen her going from one to the other. As for wearing guns however, I'm sure both types could be found having them, just the sterotypical beauty queen is a bit more hysterical about when she needs to use it. ;-)