Sarah Palin is now Wasilla's most famous resident, but any Alaskan who watches television is far too familiar with the next most famous Wasillan, Ted Sadler, a mattress salesman known for his painfully annoying commercials. Watch to the end:
It's a pity John McCain didn't pick this guy. Too similar, I guess. Just think of the dance moves John McCain could have picked up.
I don't know if Palin is connected to the Mattress Ranch guy, but as mayor of his town of 7,000 they've surely crossed paths. Maybe that's our future Secretary of ... I don't even want to know.
I don't want to trash Wasilla, because there's some decent trout and salmon fishing nearby, but it's not really the kind of place that prepares someone to be leader of the free world. Palin knows and even has some common-sense positions about local Alaska issues, and she's better off staying local where her silly rightwing conservative viewpoints on national issues don't matter one way or another.