BTW, Gov Palin was a "beauty queen" because that was her avenue for a college scholarship, in addition to scholastically, since females did not have an avenue, at the time, to receive sports scholarships for higher education.  If you read her bio, she was a jock. 

Not being a female, Kevin, you probably don't remember when females could only wear skirts to school, even during the bitter cold winter, there were no interscholastic sports for females and were mandated to take home economics and refused to opportunity to take shop class.  Although I am a few years older than Gov Palin and a few years younger than you, I do remember that - hence the comment I made about being told we couldn't do certain things "cause we were girls".   Perhaps that's why it hit a nerve with the beauty queen comment.  Like I said before - left backs.