Hindsight Must Be Wearing Beer Goggles

9 October 2008 | 10:38 PM

A couple of weeks ago, I posted an entry which linked to footage of Governor Sarah Palin’s performance in the swimsuit portion of the 1984 Miss Alaska pageant. In that post, I opined that – even when accounting for the grainy footage and the fact that this was, after all, Alaska – she was decidedly not terribly pageant-worthy, given how she rocked her suit in comparison to the beauty queens of the era.

Well, see, here’s the thing: while I certainly stand by my opinion that The Wasilla Winker doesn’t exactly spur on my dogsled team (if you catch my drift), in retrospect she probably was right on the mark. Witness one Heather Locklear, most assuredly one of the epoch’s beauty queens, shaking her shit in this clip from TJ Hooker (which, for some odd reason, is dubbed into French):

And so, please accept my apology Frau Palin. While the fact that you’re a terrifying nut-job definitely undermines your fitness to lead, your bunchy swimsuit, graceless gate and redneck-prostitute posture aren’t an issue anymore.

[Thanks, Snarky Malarkey]

Posted by Andy in Politcally Incoherent