The Palin-McCain campaign has another wrinkle to iron out this week. The Alaskan legislature has concluded their inquiry into "Troopergate," ruling that Gov. Palin did abuse her power in her efforts to fire Trooper Mike Wooten. Sounds pretty bad, but there is a way for Sarah to get out of this, and it's something she's good at. Gov. Palin must stoke Americans' deep-seated mistrust of Alaskans.

She just needs to lay off the "Obama is a terrorist" hate-mongering, and shift her message to something along the lines of, "Pfft. You're gonna listen to the legislature in Alaska? I mean, come on. Is that even a real state?" Obviously, this could result in a question of Gov. Palin's own credentials, having used her executive experience as Alaska's Governor to justify her VP candidacy. But no one on the left or the right ever really took that "executive experience" crap seriously, did they? Sure, we all kind of pretended to for a little while. But after the past few weeks, all bets are off (thank you Katie Couric!).

So, with nothing to lose, Gov. Palin needs to appeal to the lower 48's long-held condescension towards her home state. All she has to do is start suggesting that her state legislature has been "pallin' around with Eskimos" and talk about how they "spent all month in their igloo makin' snow angels and this is what they came up with?" She should also point out that when Eskimos kiss, they don't even use their lips. "What are they afraid of, Eskimo herpes?"

If it works as well as her "Obama is a terrorist" push, not only will the Troopergate report be ignored, but a handful of her supporters should be heading up north real soon to "go assassinate those whale eatin' Nanook sons o' bitches." And everyone in the lower 48 would be more than grateful if Palin convinced just a few of her supporters to leave town for a little while.

Posted by: Bob Powers      I’m a fan of Bob Powers