Posted on 08/30/2008 4:28:08 AM PDT by Virginia Ridgerunner
He's known as a doting, blue-collar husband who stands on the sidelines as his wife blazes a historic trail in politics.
But Todd Mitchell Palin can claim accomplishments beyond his marriage to Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, the surprise running mate of Republican presidential hopeful John McCain.
Todd Palin is a veteran oil-field worker and commercial fisherman affectionately dubbed Alaska's "first dude." He's a man who took college courses but does not have a degree, yet can hold his own in sophisticated circles, even hosting a reception for five former Alaska first ladies earlier this month.
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My favorite all around machine was a Yamaha ET340. NEVER let me down or sit. Light weight, thin stance, long track. She was a great trail blazer even in deep powder.
The Secret Service is going to have fun with this guy.......They’d better start tuning up their sleds if they want to cover him during the next Iron Dog.
Todd Palin’s a pretty good looking “dude” in his own right!
I think that he races snow machines, not snowmobiles. Alaskans say snow machine
In this year's 2,000-mile Tesoro Iron Dog contest, Palin and racing partner Scott Davis were trying to defend their 2007 championship when Palin broke his arm in a crash. It was 400 miles from the finish line, but he refused to quit, coming in fourth, cheered on by the parka-clad governor waving a checkered flag.
“There are racers who throw in the towel pretty quick, without broken arms, with just a head cold,” executive race director Laura Bedard said Friday. “This speaks highly of his character.”
...resonating throughout though out heartland America ....that is one tough guy!!!
check this out:
http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20222685,00.html
What's on the dinner table most often in the Palin house?
TODD: Our favorite is moose hot dogs, caribou hot dogs. We get caribou, get ‘em ground up and put them into hot dogs. They're Polish.
McCain/Palin now has the all American coolness factor...fishing in Alaska, moose hot dogs, piloting a small airplane, husband champion snowmobiler (nickname “First Dude”)....that is so COOOOOL!!!!!
If I was him, I’d demand that they let me pack something myself. He’s going to be the kind of guy that would know how to handle the gun, and himself.
Great minds think alike!
I agree with both of you.
COOL.
Obama’s hacks claim Biden was the Ham-and-cheese sandwich answer to Barry’s appeal to the arugula crowd. This Country is gonna go for the mooseburger and I’ll bet Joe is ripping out the hair plugs and gnawing his manicured nails today, cursing his decision to accept his spot on the next losing Demohack ticket. Buck up Joe. You’ve got the next 8 years in the Judiciary Committee to make an ass of yourself hollering at McCain/Palin’s SCOTUS nominees. (:^o)
What a fabulous couple !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I wonder if they also ride Harley’s ?!?!
Yeah - I can dig this! In a future Palin Presidency, I’m beginning to visualize a certain kind of come-uppance for our nation’s elite . . .
the racers are often called “slednecks”
got to keep in mind we have 6 months of winter and further north and into the bush the communities have no roads, its sleds or air.
Almost everyone has a sled(snowmachine) up here.
I can just picture the conversation now: Honey, you and the kids go on without me, I'm going hunting this weekend......
Mrs. Palin, why didn't your husband join you on stage when Senator McCain introduced you as his VP nomination?
Mrs. Palin: Oh, Todd went hunting this weekend........LOL!
no house husband there... my only sled was a 303-Wankel ArcticCat. i was hell off the line, but the 340's had longer legs.
What’s the difference between a snow machine and a snowmobile, for the benefit of those in the lower 48?
What a good-looking family!
The Palins seem like people you want to have over for beers and burgers. Such a huge contrast to politicians that dominate the news and occupy DC.
The youngest daughter has that “Dennis the menace” look on her face
PRICELESS!!!
I have to admit
I have fallen in love with their oldest daughter.
...to be young again.
Only I see McCain going with him....McCain has found youthful exuberance with the all American man going moose hunting, small airplane flying, and snowmobile riding with the first dude....
Could you imagine them flying together with Palin at the controls and McCain giving him advice on SAM suppression?
First Dude! LOL! Dat’s a good one.
I’m willing to bet he is eventually going to be America’s first “First Dude”. That’s after Cindy McCain serves as America’s First Lady.
So NOT guilty!
:)
No wonder she has five kids, eh?
I know where she can get hold of a Fat Boy if she's interested. (:^o)
Cute, sweet interview. Thanks for posting it.
Straight out of Hans Brinker--and remember: Hans got the gold in the end!
Maybe the emergence of these two people onto the world stage will help knock some sense into our beloved friends in the Netherlands--and everywhere else--and bring them back to reality.
I looked up Dillingham and Wasilla on the map.
Dillingham's way out west, sort of on Bristol Bay. How cool is that! --though cool is hardly the word when you're talking about Alaka. I guess he does do the Iron Dog! That's how you get around up there.
Wasilla's just outside of Anchorage; so I expect everybody's urbane and citified--by Alaska standards, I mean.
I told my wife we've gotta go to Alaska! I feel the call of the wild!
I’d get Todd out on the trail with the kids for the youth vote.
He may well take it out from under Bambi, the guy is first rate cool, youth voters are gonna love him.
You know what folks.
I think the republican party has found what I can only describe as its own electorally votable Republican version of the Clintons in reverse (ironic is’nt it). These guys are going to all over the news. We have found a family that could easily be electable on a huge huge scale and they are patriot dye in the wool Americans. Say hello to the next 8 to 16 yrs in the WH.
These hardy, self-reliant Alaskans—taking on and even prevailing over The Last Frontier (he finished the last 400 miles of the Iron Dog with a broken arm) have already made a mockery of the whining victims—who need a village to raise a child—of the degenerate, decadent Left and their sociopathic leaders who keep them mired in victimology and convinced that they are eternally needy and incapable of self-reliance.
absolutely...
Same thing, just different terminology. In fact, the native Alaskans out in the bush often refer to it as a "Sno-Go".
Gosh, I miss living up there.
What a great looking family!
Verrry handsome.
Bump for later,
A real man, a real woman, a real family. That’s REAL change!
Okay......I’m still not in love with John McCain, but I’m warming up to him since the Saddleback Forum. I’m going to give him HUGE props & congratulate his sound judgment in picking Sarah Palin. At first, I was concerned about her “lack of experience”, but the more I’m finding out about her - the more I’m LOVING her and her whole family!!!
FINALLY - there is a ticket I can vote FOR!
Great choice McCain!
To me, they both just scream competency. Of course, being totally competent, they don’t have to scream about it. Just like being able to take someone down means you don’t ever even have to threaten them because it simply shows in the confidence they radiate.
I love this family! Real people in a real world with their heads on straight capable of doing whatever must be done, doing it well and moving on to the next. My kind of people!
As a lower 48’er, the distinction is that the Alaska people who use them call em snowmachines. Maybe in Minnesota they are snowmobiles
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