Sarah Palin
Sarah Palin is an American politician who served as governor of Alaska and became the Republican vice presidential nominee in 2008—the first woman on a Republican presidential ticket.
Her prior experience as a small-town mayor and prior obscurity made her name shorthand for an unvetted or underqualified political choice: They're worried about another Sarah Palin situation.
NBC sketch program acronym
- interviewFormal questioning session
- satireMockery exposing vice
- caricatureExaggerated comic depiction
- sound bitesBrief quotable media excerpts
Tina Fey · gaffes · Katie Couric · media frenzy · reality TV · tabloid · news cycle · parody
Politically conservative faction
- pro-lifeAgainst elective pregnancy termination
- evangelicalZealously advocating beliefs
- patriotismDevotion to one's homeland
- free-marketUnregulated private exchange
traditionalist · deregulation · mama grizzly · populism · nationalism
State's chief executive
- vice-presidentialOf the second-highest office
- McCainFrozen food empire
- 2008Year before 2009
- campaignOrganized effort toward goal
election · Republican · candidate · reform · endorsement · primary · debate · platform
Largest U.S. state's capital
- WasillaAlaskan borough seat
- DenaliAlaska's towering peak
- tundraFrigid treeless biome
- aurora borealisHigh-latitude luminous sky phenomenon
moose · salmon · glacier · oil pipeline · wilderness · fishing · Kodiak · Iditarod
SNL
NBC sketch program acronym
- interviewFormal questioning session
- satireMockery exposing vice
- caricatureExaggerated comic depiction
Tina Fey · sound bites · gaffes · Katie Couric · media frenzy · reality TV · tabloid · news cycle · parody · impersonation
right-wing
Politically conservative faction
- pro-lifeAgainst elective pregnancy termination
- evangelicalZealously advocating beliefs
- patriotismDevotion to one's homeland
free-market · traditionalist · deregulation · mama grizzly · populism · nationalism
governor
State's chief executive
- vice-presidentialOf the second-highest office
- McCainFrozen food empire
- 2008Year before 2009
campaign · election · Republican · candidate · reform · endorsement · primary · debate · platform · rally
Juneau
Largest U.S. state's capital
aurora borealis · moose · salmon · glacier · oil pipeline · wilderness · fishing · Kodiak · Iditarod · sled dogs
- Alaska Governmentstate legislature, state senate, state house, legislature, governor
- VeepsJoe Biden, Kamala Harris, Al Gore, Dick Cheney, Mike Pence
- electionsballot, ballots, voter registration, candidates, polls
- women leadersMargaret Thatcher, Angela Merkel, Indira Gandhi, Golda Meir, Jacinda Ardern
- Obama EraBarack Obama, Michelle Obama, Joe Biden, Obamacare, Affordable Care Act
- DemagoguesAdolf Hitler, Hitler, Joseph McCarthy, McCarthy, George Wallace
Sarah PalinAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Hillary Clinton · Bernie Sanders · Barack Obama · Elizabeth Warren · Nancy Pelosi
Sarah PalinHillary Clinton
Joe Biden · Barack Obama · Dick Cheney · John Kerry · policy wonk
Sarah PalinBarack Obama
Forty-fourth US president
Elizabeth Warren · Pete Buttigieg · Noam Chomsky · intellectual · policy wonk