SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- On the very day that Sarah Palin set out on a multi-city book tour to promote her best-seller "Going Rogue," U.S. Rep. Jason Chaffetz, RUtah, insisted that she "has the ability to draw crowds. And if she has a strong message to go with that, who knows what she can do? She has star power, which can open doors."
The fly in the buttermilk, as we Texans like to say, is that Chaffetz wasn't talking about the former Republican candidate for vice president and potential front-runner for the party's top spot in 2012. Instead, he was referring to Carrie Prejean, the former Miss California forced to abdicate her throne after a one-woman sex tape surfaced. Too hot for the usual cable outlets, her performance, to put it gently, belied the clean-cut image associated with our pre-eminent beauty pageant.
