'Sarah Palin's Alaska': Reality show or campaign ad?

Reporting from Washington — Executives at TLC, the cable channel airing "Sarah Palin's Alaska," insist the docu-travelogue starring the former GOP vice presidential nominee and possible future presidential candidate has no political agenda.

Yet if Palin were looking to create a compelling campaign biopic, she could do worse than the lushly produced, eight-part series premiering Sunday. The program casts her as a chipper frontierswoman who juggles motherhood with adventures in Alaska's vast wilderness. One moment Palin is baking cupcakes; the next, she's perched in a boat watching two growling brown bears wrestle. The series is laced with breathtaking aerial shots of snow-capped mountains and vast lakes, set to dramatic orchestration.

"I love this state like I love my family," a beaming Palin says in the show's opening montage, which depicts her lugging a fishnet onto a boat, scaling a glacier and riding in a mud-caked ATV.

It remains to be seen whether the series will serve to further boost her profile for a presidential run in 2012 or whether it signals a pivot into a full-time media career. Either way, the program helps define Palin on her own terms, noted Republican strategist Ken Khachigian.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-palin-alaska-20101113,0,7359665.story

We've already had one of those for President.

and abandon her family, too?

They'd probably be better off.

It's certainly a toss-up between her governing skills and her parenting skills.