The Miss Alaska Runner-Up

(((Man, *everybody* wants a Carla Bruni sidekick in their presidential office nowadays. It's a groundswell.)))

Link: Washington Wire - WSJ.com : Palin: From Beauty Pageant to Popular Governor.

Here’s something they’ll learn: she is a former Miss Alaska contestant, the Miss America Organization touted today.

In 1984, Palin was chosen Miss Wasilla and went on to become the first runner-up in the Miss Alaska Pageant, but she won Miss Congeniality that year. Her family still holds ties to the pageant—her husband, Todd, was a judge in 2008’s Miss Alaska pageant....