Sarah Palin Arrives In St. Louis For The Debate (VIDEO)

Watch video below of Sarah Palin arriving by plane in St. Louis with her family ahead of Thursday night's vice presidential debate.

Here's the press pool report from the airport:

On the flight from Flagstaff, Arizona to St. Louis, Palin spokesperson Tracey Schmitt said that the Alaska governor is looking forward to tonight's debate, "She is eager to lay out the contrast of her record of executive leadership and Joe Biden's 35 years in the halls of congress."

While in the air, we learned that while running on the McCain ranch on Monday afternoon Palin slipped on some gravel and cut the palm of her right hand. She is wearing a large band-aid on the palm of her hand.

Yesterday, debate prep went all day on the ranch. She spent another day doing mock debates outside with McCain Senior Foreign Policy Advisor Randy Schneumann who "played" the role of Joe Biden. The group broke for dinner at 7:30pm local and her advisors along with her family which include Todd, Willow, Piper and Trig. They ate steaks and twice baked potatoes on picnic tables outside.

Also during the flight, Willow and Piper came to the back of the plane to pass out black licorice and stickers. Willow was wearing a grey T-shirt and jeans while Piper wore a blue sweatshirt that read "Alaska Grown", jeans and missing her two front teeth which apparently is not a new development, but a few months old.

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Comments

[1Smartchik]

I am so tired of her, she needs to go.

[Gryffindor Hero]

Fraud alert: Her hair is down, after all these days of tying it up. If you cannot see her ears tonight in the debate, then she is being coached live via a wire.

[BannedFromCommenting]

She is off a plane, she will be styled up for debate, not as she is coming off the plane... though I dont trust McCain party

[Just2stressed]

Has anybody noticed, just how much she's been pushing her pregnant 17 year old in the spotlight? It's like, her pregnancy is being celebrated.

Don't get me wrong, everybody makes mistakes (in reference to her daughter), but, I don't think she young lady should be dragged in the spotlight, and used, as she is being.

[LemonMeringue]

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6y0m8_sarah-palin-prepares-for-the-debate_fun

If you are in need of a good chuckle or two.

[Airball01]

Poor Levi. I feel worse for him than anyone. One day he's smoking up and sporting a mullet, the next day he is dressed like a young Republican and being watched my millions. He must want to crawl under a rock right now. I read the McCain campaign is pushing for a pre-election wedding to draw attention away from the other negatives of their campaign.

[cheeriogirl]

It is not just you. That poor girl is being used almost like a platform for Sarah and the GOP.

Hate to bring up a sore subject, but remember what happened to teens after President Clinton's oral "debates"?

I am concerned how many conservative kids might now feel as if they have been given the green light, by do as I do, not as I say.

I really wonder if we will have many more sexually active and/ or pregnant teens in the not too distant future?

Time will tell.

[cnobody]

are her kids home schooled? every time i see her trot that pregnant daughter out on stage i just wonder why she's not at school.

[notthistime]

I wonder why ALL the kids (not the baby) are not at school.

[LemonMeringue]

They don't need no stinkin' liberal education. As long as they can feed themselves with a fishing line and a gun, and Alaska keeps that pork coming in...

[SpoxLogic]

Question:
Why is Palin's daughter always with her? It seems that everytime she has the small baby with her, the older daughter is there. Can't Gov Palin find a nanny?

[CranialRectalLoopback]

She doesn't need a nanny, she has a "Mr. Mom". By the way, where's the rest of the family? Clearly she doesn't mind outsourcing the raising of her children. Why does she drag the child-mother around? Could it be the child-mother is the already a mother once-over?

[cheeriogirl]

I would say yes. Simply compare the pregnancy pictures of Sarah with an earlier pregnancy, and then check her out at the governor's conference one month before "she" gave birth to the baby.

Lets just say Governor Palin has misspoken and lied on many things, but if you recall, she never did say the allegation of her not being Trig's mother was false.

When asked about this situation and the lack of a birth record for him at the hospital for the day she supposedly gave birth to him, she used her daughter to deflect the topic. My daughter is pregnant. End of story. They have simply never responded.

I think Sarah has some splaining to do...

[AmericasMostGangsta]

she probably can't afford one. remember, she is joe-sixpack average american, and her running mate, the old lying sack o' crap, is not rich either.

[tonycoyle]

her family income (Sara & First Dude) for last year was around $250,000.

Yes - about a quarter million.

Joe-six-pack they ain't!

[PeaceOnEarth62]

LOL

[treklady]

That is not Bristol (the pregnant daughter) it's her second daughter whose name escapes me now, the youngest daughter is Piper, baby is Trig. Isn't Bristol in Alaska?

[Lotus19]

The baby is a prop.

[cheeriogirl]

She has a nanny in Alaska, but I don't know if the nanny is traveling with the family or not.

You can see her in the Alaskan Daily News.

I doubt we would ever see her in person at an event, since that would surely take away the "she is just like me" image the repubs are trying to potray.

For the same reason, I doubt we will never see Sarah and Todd's tax records that show their income to be over $250,000 annually.

[bronceye]

Shouldn't her daughter be in school?

[billymike]

Hair down. Uh-oh.

Check this out: http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Leaked_Simpsons_clip_shows_rigged_voting_1002.html

[thinbluetorpedo]

Why is Palin's hair down all of a sudden? Preparing a wire for the debate?

[Just2stressed]

You know, I have had this thought in my head, of her speaking at the debate, and all of a sudden, an earpiece falls out. That would be too funny.

[CranialRectalLoopback]

You betcha ...

Please tell me the Obama campaign has some techno-geeks present at the debate tonight to either simulcast the content of the wireless communication, or to disrupt and/or hijack the content. Personally, I vote for the simulcast ...

[CeciliaBertrand]

got the baby - photo opt time.

[cindyw]

Seriously, can she not get a babysitter? I'm not saying a mother can't be a candidate, but give that baby a break and let him stay home.

[abirish]

I feel so sorry for that baby traveling all around the country. I wonder if that baby has jetlag.