Sarah and Carrie have got looks, they got books

[Louisiana1976]

SYRACUSE, N.Y. - On the very day that Sarah Palin set out on a multi-city book tour to promote her best-seller "Going Rogue," U.S. Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, insisted that she "has the ability to draw crowds. And if she has a strong message to go with that, who knows what she can do? She has star power, which can open doors."

SYRACUSE, N.Y. - The fly in the buttermilk, as we Texans like to say, is that Chaffetz wasn't talking about the former Republican candidate for vice president and potential front-runner for the party's top spot in 2012. Instead, he was referring to Carrie Prejean, the former Miss California forced to abdicate her throne after a one-woman sex tape surfaced. Too hot for the usual cable outlets, her performance, to put it gently, belied the clean-cut image associated with our pre-eminent beauty pageant.

Incredibly, Prejean likewise has a book of her own to hawk, "Still Standing," published by the conservative Regnery house. She's been doing just that in an intriguing if unconscious competition with Palin. The former Alaskan governor won an interview with one of the nation's top women in modern media, Oprah Winfrey. Great! But Prejean got herself booked with Barbara Walters. Awesome!

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