The Mudflats

I have to confess, I was worried there for a little while.  When Rod Blagojevich hurtled on to the scene with his hair and his boundless delusional self-love, I started feeling like maybe my state wasn’t #1 anymore.  And then there was Mark Sanford, who was all “holier than thou,” suddenly stealing all the headlines with his disappearing act, non-existent Appalachian Trail hike/Argentine tryst and his “rosy pink light” Harlequin Romance love letters.

But today, I feel vindicated.  Alaska still proudly sits in the top spot.

Our governor has won the prestigious ”Sitting Duck Award,” given out annually by the National Society of Newspaper Columnists to the “most ridiculed newsmaker in America.” 

Whew.

Past president Mike Leonard, a columnist for The Herald Times of Bloomington, Ind.: “As a Hoosier, I feel that she’s done something that Dan Quayle could never do. Which was to make Dan Quayle look good. … After the election, the video of Sarah and the poultry processing factory … that pretty much says it all. The gift that keeps on giving.”

If we’re going to be put through all the drama, the craziness, and the scandal, the least we should get is an award for it.  There isn’t an actual trophy of any kind, but I like to imagine it looking like the one above.