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

[jagoneely]

I know this might be seen as "sexist" but whenever I see that baby, I wonder why she said yes. The baby, special needs, and not even a year old just breaks my heart. The truth is, you can't do it all. Things will get done, but not well.

Somehow I don't see Todd Palin as the Mr. Mom type.

[progressivelady]

if your a woman asking the question ,I don't believe it is sexist

[jagoneely]

I am a woman. And I never held my babies that way.

[Icantbelieveher]

Does anyone notice her hair is down -- I guarantee she's going to wear an earpiece!

[Obama4Life]

Don't they check them for this kind of stuff in debates?

[kellygrrrl]

will it even help?

[Egalitare]

It's okay. I intercepted the frequency on the transmitter that Team McCain is going to use.

Gov. Palin is going to regale us with passages of "The Communist Manifesto"

[progressivelady]

Must be a photo op, with the disabled child in arm's have'nt seen him since the convention. she has'nt convinced me she is smart yet, but GW has gotten away with it for 8 yrs. scary thought, her even near the White House

[Taliese]

Notice her hair is down covering her ears.

I knew it!

[Obama4Life]

Wouldn't it be funny if her ear piece falls out right on the podium and you hear from the mic McCain saying "Say Senator Obama is unqualified id/iot!, say Senator Obama is unqualified!"

Man that would be hilarious. lol

[kellygrrrl]

you would hear ROVE's voice -- not McCain's

[Obama4Life]

Yeah you're right, lol.

Either way it would be funny.

[dct1999]

LMAO

While Karen Hughes, Bay Bukkkanan, and that Carly chick fight for their chance to grab the mic and bust out a rhyme in an effort help the clueless wonder.

[jacksondrew]

She's using her kids as props. It's all staged for the idiots amongst us. Holding baby in hand when she could have easily given the child to Todd (he's not doing anything with his hands). She attempting to elicit the image of a hard working feminist mom whose trying to split her time with the kids, a deadbeat, insensitive husband while running for this VP thing....

Please... these anti-american hillbilly mooses needs to find an iceberg and head off into the sun.

[LeahDarling]

And it looks as though the baby is being smothered on her shoulder. I was getting nervous for poor little baby Trig.

[parrotkisser]

me, too. It looked like an odd and unsafe way to carry a baby down a set of stairs.

[Hurricane-Daniel]

The band-aid is probably a vibrating shocking device:

1 shock = Breathe and slow down!

2 shocks = You are a Maverick! You are Invincible!

3 shocks = Go for the kill!

4 shocks = SEXIST ALERT SEXIST ALERT!!!

[Egalitare]

Does she get a cigarette for afterwards?

[rosiebond007]

SHOULDN'T THESE CHILDREN BE IN SCHOOL ???
ARE THEY HOME SCHOOLED?

WHAT IS GOING ON HERE?

I THOUGHT WE WANTED TO KEEP THE CHILDREN OUT OF THE LIMELIGHT ?

[KareninSac]

She's probably going to drag the baby onstage and nurse him while trying to answer questions.

[jagoneely]

She never nursed that baby. I'd bet on that.

[progressivelady]

I have heard they are home schooled, let's hope they are smarter than she is

[quasar]

Someone should tell her that there won't be any sniper fire in St. Louis so she can give the kid to someone else.

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[littlepuffycloud]

Does she ever LOOK at her baby? I couldn't take my eyes off my babies for the first year...yet I've never seen her even look him in the face. She just lugs him around like a sack of taters. Taters...funny word.

[parrotkisser]

The tater tots should be left at home, all of them. This is grown-up time.

[rosita]

YEAH!! would like her to explain the American people WHY is she dragging her entire family everywhere??? WE ARE TALKING ABOUT SMALL CHILDREN!!! been drag south to north, east to west. Does her husband work??? I mean "a job". For heaven sakes! she should go home and rise her children, THESE CHILDREN ARE SMALL!!!!!!!

[nycwerewolf]

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McCain voted against our troops MANY times in the senate.

John McCain voted AGAINST 20 million dollars for veteran care facilities.

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John McCain voted AGAINST $1 billion dollars in new equipment for the National Guard.

John McCain voted AGAINST Jim Webb's G.I. Bill.

John McCain voted AGAINST $430 million for veterans outpatient care.

Barack voted FOR all of these troop support initiatives.

They deserve better than McCain.

We deserve better than McCain.

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[Wesneeds]

The fact she got off a plane is St. Louis means I owe my wife 10 bucks. But, there is still time for that 'serious emergency before 8 pm. 0

[dct1999]

WTF is wrong with these people? My mother showed me the proper way to hold a baby when I was 5 years old. Yet every time I see the Palin baby his head is flopping around like a puppet's. They should leave him at home with his real parents.

[LMT]

Wouldn't be surprise if it is a puppet. Just a part of the whole scam.

[Tomasekbride]

I guess they think what harm will it do to protect his head.

[gigi09]

Not nice Tomasekbride!