Two weeks ago Governor Sarah Palin (R-AK) successfully got David Letterman to back down and issue an apology after Letterman's brazenly pedophillic remarks on television. And now she’s going toe-to-toe with Senator John Kerry (D-MA).

Speaking to Alaska National Guard troops in Kosovo recently, the Alaskan governor responded to Kerry’s expressed hope that instead of Republican Governor Mark Sanford disappearing, that Governor Palin had disappeared.

During her visit with the troops, she recalled Kerry’s jab at her and commented, “So the governor of South Carolina disappears for a week,” Palin said imitating Kerry. “Well, shoot, of all the governors in the nation to disappear — too bad it couldn’t have been that governor from Alaska.”

That got a few chuckles from the assembled tropps before she transitioned from Kerry back to herself.

“He looked so frustrated and looked so sad,” she said. “I just wanted to reach out to the TV and say, ‘John Kerry, why the long face?’”