Sarah Palin now has her own television show. We’d call it a reality TV show, but it all seems a little too surreal to be throwing around the R word.

The show is called “Sarah Palin’s Alaska.” It features Palin and her family in the beautiful Alaskan landscape while they fish, shoot guns and take part in other outdoor activities.

The show has just started airing, and so far only one episode has graced American television sets.

The question to be asked is, why is this happening?

Public relations stunts by politicians are nothing new, but including your family in the mix to show that you are human seems like a desperate move.

The why, as we see it, is that Sarah Palin is being shown shooting, fishing and traversing a rugged landscape in order to show that she is a “real American.”

If Palin does decide to run for president in 2012, this could very well end up backfiring. As the saying goes, “Familiarity breeds contempt,” and getting to see the inner workings of a family gives people plenty of ammunition.

Here’s an example: If all it takes to be qualified for president is the ability to discharge firearms, traverse the wilderness and a little bit of public service, then there are a couple of Editorial Board members who are just as qualified as she is, sans meeting the age requirement.

Sun Tzu wrote cautioning warriors to be extremely vague in their actions and plans so that enemies cannot gather information to use against them.

It is along this line of thought that Palin’s television show is just a bad idea. Even without a show, she is responsible for so many quotes that are just plain scary think about.

We aren’t talking about those really off-the-wall ones, like:

“I think on a national level, your Department of Law there in the White House would look at some of the things that we’ve been charged with and automatically throw them out,” in which she refers to a department that doesn’t exist in a July 2009 ABC News interview.

We are referring to ones that contradict her ideologies to the core, like the following:

“We used to hustle over the border for health care we received in Canada. And I think now, isn’t that ironic,” as she said in a March 2010 speech delivered in Calgary, Canada.

We’d like to point out that this kind of flies in the face of Republicans being staunchly against socialized health care.

If you are prone to saying things that are probably not so good for you to be saying, then it probably isn’t the best idea to have your own television show.

This show will probably do what it intends — make Sarah Palin look like a “good ol’ boy.”

The problem is that this country doesn’t need another one of those in the White House, and we believe the American public slowly came to understand that during the last two years of George W. Bush’s presidency.

We’re encouraged by the fact that Palin’s “unfavorable rating” is at an all-time high, according to a Gallup poll released on Nov. 12. More than half the country — 52 percent of Americans — hold an unfavorable opinion of Palin.

So, will the show be entertaining? Sure.

But let it be just that. Entertainment. Please, as voting members of the American public, don’t let this show propel Palin to anything more than the special level of D-list reality stardom for which she seems to be so well-suited.