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Much has been made of Republican Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin being good looking, but is it really appropriate to dress someone who could potentially be the next vice president of the United States in a naughty school girl outfit?

To explain, the following brief came across the wire from our friends at McClatchy Newspapers and was passed along by our night editor, Whitney "007" Cork:

Online action-figure purveyor herobuilders.com, which has a line of popular dolls modeled on politicians of note, has unveiled its latest creation: a 12-inch plastic doll of GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin. The company offers John McCain and Barack Obama effigies in the classic 12-inch plastic format, as cuddly 8-inch plush dolls, and even as Pez candy dispensers.

So far, Palin is available only as a 12-incher, but she comes in three outfits: a conservative suit, a slightly sexed-up schoolgirl look, and as a gun-toting superhero clad in a black-leather trenchcoat.

Sadly, the company has yet to fashion a doll based on Palin's Democratic counterpart, Sen. Joe Biden.

"We are having trouble re-creating his hairline (but) the entire design team is working diligently on the problem," herobuilders.com President Emil Vicale told us, referring to widely held rumors that Biden's pate was marred by a badly executed hair transplant procedure.

-- McClatchy Newspapers

So yes, I had to go looking. You can see the Palin dolls here and some more political types here.

Is this all in good fun, disrespectful, completely irrelevant? Is there an Ann Coulter doll or would that be redundant? And is it me, or does Sen. Obama's head not seem the right size for his body in this picture: