Average Joe Sixpack Sarah Palin is Worth $1.2 million

Governor Sarah Palin has claimed that she's an "everyday, working class American", and that "it's time Joe six-pack American is finally represented in the position of vice presidency." I think so too, in the same way that I'd like to see a forklift operator operate on my brain.

Palin explained that her blue collar regularness helps her understand that regular Americans get regularly annoyed when the stock market takes a hit. But that might not be the Joe Six-pack she was talking about. Recent estimates state that the Palin household is worth at least $1.2 million…

Sarah Palin and her husband have pieced together a uniquely Alaskan income that reached comfortably into six figures even before she became governor, capitalizing on valuable fishing rights, a series of land deals and a patchwork of other ventures to build an above-average lifestyle.

It must be a six-pack of that eight-dollar-a-bottle Belgian beer.

The estimate includes 5 properties, a few planes, some boats, and don't forget, the very non-elitist gubernatorial salary of $125K/year, but it doesn't include the $11K the family receives every year in state oil dividends that help enable Alaskans to be so anti-tax.

In defense of Sally Chardonnay, life in Alaska is expensive — you need those whale-blubber suits for the winter, a giant house with a large Sub Zero freezer for your moose carcass, tanning beds and a home-installed Russian detection system.