Sarah Palin Impersonator Shows Up At CPAC (VIDEO)

A Sarah Palin lookalike caused a brief fuss at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference on Friday, as many attendees appeared to believe that the former Alaska governor, who notoriously rejected an invitation to deliver a keynote speech at the conference, had stopped by for a surprise appearance.

Decked out with Palin's famous glasses, hairdo and iconic, oft-imitated red suit, the impersonator reportedly stirred the CPAC ranks just moments before former Massachussetts Gov. Mitt Romney was slated to take the stage.

According to Politico:

She resembled Palin but when she opened her mouth the attempt at an accent came off as more Chicago than Wasilla.

"I'm here for CPAC," said Patty Lyons, the name of the would-be Tina Fey, according to a young YAF activist who was escorting her. "Plus I heard they had some good mooseburgers."

For everything CPAC, be sure to keep up with our liveblog throughout the day.

WATCH via Alex Seitz-Wald at ThinkProgress:

Comments

[Mara Para]

02:07 AM on 02/14/2011

Ohoh! This is ominous.

She's been cloned! With two Sarah Palins and Michele Bachman, they need only one more Tea Party lady to make the Four Horsewomen of the Tea-pocalypse.

Oh, no, is that Christine O'Donnell over there?

[jusathot]

02:48 AM on 02/13/2011

Did Sarah send this person in her place wired up?

[Madison Lib]

02:10 AM on 02/13/2011

Someone should have been able to smell the difference.

[ron071]

01:09 AM on 02/13/2011

This meeting was surely a circus act with many rings of clowns.  The audience of extreme righty  richies surely got what they paid for

[clearpepsi]

11:41 PM on 02/12/2011

Sé que esta idea no es la invención de la rueda, pero el hombre que brillante - si es que había un tarro de la extremidad yo pondría un poco de dinero pulg.

[wonderfullone]

10:18 PM on 02/12/2011

The Sarah Palin Impersonator should have said "she heard they served some good wolfburgers", and wolfed one down.

[scorpioman]

06:43 PM on 02/12/2011

a fake imitating a fake= real!

[melloweb]

08:02 PM on 02/12/2011

took the words of my post!

[hannabanana]

05:05 PM on 02/12/2011

Desperation at HP upper echelon has clearly set in.

[desmoinesdude]

03:37 PM on 02/12/2011

Actually, it is the epitome of the Palin experience. Lots of ooohhs and aaaahhhs until she opens her mouth. Then it's WTF?

[wonderfullone]

10:21 PM on 02/12/2011

A lot of one-liners that are silly and don't say anything.....It's like talking the talk and walking the walk backwards.

[Eric Flanagan]

02:43 PM on 02/12/2011

I'd be scared to do something like that at a Republican/Tea Party convention; you might get shot or stomped on.

[PatA]

07:17 PM on 02/12/2011

JustBNice, fanned and faved.

[PatA]

07:16 PM on 02/12/2011

Eric, good laugh.....scary,too. fanned and faved.

[lafayette2009]

02:38 PM on 02/12/2011

Imitating a caricature takes some doing.

[expat50]

02:27 PM on 02/12/2011

You can make money pretending to be somebody who is pretending to be somebody? Who knew? The big question is: Did she pretend to be a li@r?

[suzeejc]

03:02 PM on 02/12/2011

The real one doesn't pretend to be a liar, she IS a liar.

[NevadaLiberal]

02:10 PM on 02/12/2011

Who could tell? Might as well be the real one, which is a fake anyway. It's complicated!

[beccajo]

03:05 PM on 02/12/2011

Good thing she did it today, before Sarah could get her name copyrighted. She'd be in trouble
then I guess.

[E3grnMaRine]

01:32 PM on 02/13/2011

Hey, I was gonna say that! The real killer comes at the end of the clip, one hose head calls her "governor"! Damn, she doesn't deserve that title. What a bunch of self inflated flatulent fools feeling feverish for a fake female far from finishing a term as governor. Fa!

[VoLintheVille]

01:44 PM on 02/12/2011

Question, would the look-alike palin be a trademark infringement? Reference: http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/02/04/us-palin-trademark-idUSTRE7135WI20110204

[figure8]

01:54 PM on 02/12/2011

If they patent "stupid" it will be.

[fanofariana]

06:19 PM on 02/12/2011

lol...f/f