POLL: Was Palin helped or hurt by SNL tonight?

I don't exactly understand why she even showed up tonight. If she just wanted to watch people make fun of her.. she could have done that just as well from a hotel room in whatever Red State she was suppose to be protecting for the day.

Anyway.. vote below:

Since when has ANY appearance not hurt Palin? :shrug:

reason given by pretty much everyone who has decided against her being anywhere near the WH was never that she wasn`t `charming` or that she couldn`t be silly and have fun etc.

It was because she doesn`t have the knowledge, and is an idealogue who thinks George W. Bush is one heck of a man, you betcha.

None of the reasons for keeping her far far away from the WH was changed by her SNL skitten show and she`s shown, by her appearance in those skittens, that she knows it.

I'm surprised people think it might hurt her ... I'm tellin' y'all ... she's gonna be the hit of the morning shows tomorrow. They're gonna love that she was willing to play along and laugh at herself -- that she was willing to "throw her hands in the ayer, a-ayer, ayer, a-ayer ..." while Amy and the Eskimos and Fake First Dude in the "snow-machine" suit made fun of her.

She TOTALLY got the pop-culture cred she was seeking from that appearance. The woman may not know ANYTHING she needs to know about running the country (and she does not) ... but that doesn't mean she doesn't have street-smarts. She knows when to throw the red meat to her base, and she knows when to go on SNL and laugh at herself.

She's a good sport for going on the show, but I don't see her appearance changing anyone's mind.

I thought it was "different" than other candidate appearances, in a strange way...I mean, what clips are they going to show, her raising the roof? She was out of tune with the music and looked like the embarrassing mom at the birthday party. I mean, I give her credit for going on and it's not her job to be funny anyway, but she had such a marginal role...they should have given her better material.....

plus those who tend to watch SNL are on the more liberal side of the political beliefs.