Dear FJMcCC,
I would like to thank you for choosing Alaska Governor Sarah Palin for the vice-president slot in last year's election cycle. If you hadn't done so, then we (the public) would likely not have been treated to the ongoing sideshow that is her family. I mean, it's possible that any seated governor's sister-in-law being arrested for burglary would have made the news, but your elevation of this eminently disfunctional family to the national spotlight has been a boon for senses of humor around the country and, indeed, around the world.
Thanks ever so much,
Bob