09.02.08 4:23 PM CDT ● Pop Culture ● Rob. Walton
| Alaska governor and presumptive GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin bears an uncanny resemblance to fictional boozy Karen Walker on TV’s Will & Grace. We did a cursory background check on both of them, and list ways to tell them apart. | |
 Sarah Palin |
 Karen Walker |
| Governor of Alaska | Sitcom Sidekick |
| High School Nickname: Sarah Barracuda | High Society Alias: Anastasia Beaverhausen |
| Travels with her husband and five (or four) kids on the campaign bus | Keeps job as a receptionist to get away from her husband and two adopted children |
| Husband Todd once jailed for driving under the influence | Husband Stan once jailed for tax evasion |
| Attends the Assemblies of God Pentecostal church | Starred in the dominatrix fetish video Next to Godliness |
| In college, sported a tight T-shirt that read, “I may be broke, but I’m not flat busted.“ | Often boasted (and demonstrated), “I have a killer rack.“ |
| In 1984, came in second in the Miss Alaska pageant | In 1984, appeared in Penthouse magazine kissing Miss America |
| As Mayor of Wasilla, Alaska, reduced her own salary | As receptionist for Grace Adler Designs, never cashed her paychecks |
| As Governor of Alaska, proposed giving residents $1200 apiece to offset high energy costs | As receptionist for Grace Adler Designs, paid for her boss’s health insurance |
| Sacked her Public Safety Commissioner allegedly for not firing her former brother-in-law | Got a Barney’s salesgirl fired for having a gray tooth |
| Changed political parties to become a Republican in 1996 | Had an affair with Ronald Reagan |
| A firm believer in abstinence-only education, adamantly stands by her unwed, pregnant 17-year-old daughter | Reprimands her husband, “My kids made the honor roll? Honey, my time is precious. Call me when one of them gives birth at the prom!” |