Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN, September 2-3, 2008 – As expected, the Republican National Convention was way lighter on celebrity presence than the Democratic competition, but who needs celebrities when they had Sarah Palin?  The newly-minted Vice Presidential candidate captivated the world and provided unending entertainment with her soccer mom wisdom, her caribou-hunting, gun-shooting hobbies, her pregnant, unmarried teenage daughter named Bristol whose hockey player teenage boyfriend suddenly announced his impending marriage to the entire world, and four other children including a 4-month-old.  There’s also a husband in there somewhere and a job running the state of Alaska.  Seriously folks, is this not a Sitcom writing itself?