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Husband of veep choice is snowmobile racer (First Dude!)
Yahoo! News ^ | August 30, 2008 | RACHEL D'ORO

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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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Politics/Elections; US: Alaska
KEYWORDS: husband; palin; vp
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To: A.A. Cunningham

What a good-looking family!


21 posted on 08/30/2008 5:19:14 AM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: Virginia Ridgerunner

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.


22 posted on 08/30/2008 5:19:37 AM PDT by j_k_l
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To: Virginia Ridgerunner

The youngest daughter has that “Dennis the menace” look on her face

PRICELESS!!!


23 posted on 08/30/2008 5:23:40 AM PDT by Leofl (I'm from Texas, we don't dial 9-11)
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To: A.A. Cunningham

I have to admit

I have fallen in love with their oldest daughter.

...to be young again.


24 posted on 08/30/2008 5:25:22 AM PDT by rdax
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To: Hot Tabasco
LOL...

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....

25 posted on 08/30/2008 5:27:37 AM PDT by FreedomProtector
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To: FreedomProtector

Could you imagine them flying together with Palin at the controls and McCain giving him advice on SAM suppression?


26 posted on 08/30/2008 5:34:42 AM PDT by saganite (Obama is a political STD)
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To: Virginia Ridgerunner

First Dude! LOL! Dat’s a good one.


27 posted on 08/30/2008 5:34:58 AM PDT by publiusF27
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To: Virginia Ridgerunner

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.


28 posted on 08/30/2008 5:36:20 AM PDT by advance_copy (Stand for life or nothing at all)
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To: Virginia Ridgerunner

So NOT guilty!

:)

29 posted on 08/30/2008 5:37:09 AM PDT by maggief
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To: LiveFreeOrDie2001

30 posted on 08/30/2008 5:56:11 AM PDT by Alice in Wonderland
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To: maggief

No wonder she has five kids, eh?


31 posted on 08/30/2008 5:58:33 AM PDT by ottbmare
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To: LiveFreeOrDie2001
I wonder if they also ride Harley’s ?!?!

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I know where she can get hold of a Fat Boy if she's interested. (:^o)

32 posted on 08/30/2008 6:01:12 AM PDT by RoadKingSE (How do you know that the light at the end of the tunnel isn't a muzzle flash?)
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To: FreedomProtector

Cute, sweet interview. Thanks for posting it.


33 posted on 08/30/2008 6:08:14 AM PDT by DJ MacWoW ("Make yourself sheep, and the wolves will eat you" Benjamin Franklin)
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To: Virginia Ridgerunner
"in last year's Iron Dog, Palin and Davis helped a racer with broken ribs reach the next checkpoint before heading on to victory."

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!

34 posted on 08/30/2008 6:08:46 AM PDT by Savage Beast (The ruling Chinese oligarchy is the envy of the American Left.)
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To: Virginia Ridgerunner
He looks vaguely familiar, but I just couldn't place him.


35 posted on 08/30/2008 6:15:24 AM PDT by jmcenanly
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To: Virginia Ridgerunner

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.


36 posted on 08/30/2008 6:16:38 AM PDT by sunmars
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To: RoadKingSE

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.


37 posted on 08/30/2008 6:16:38 AM PDT by sunmars
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To: Virginia Ridgerunner

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.


38 posted on 08/30/2008 6:23:14 AM PDT by Savage Beast (The ruling Chinese oligarchy is the envy of the American Left.)
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To: sunmars
absolutely...
39 posted on 08/30/2008 6:26:00 AM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist - CTHULHU/NYARLATHOTEP'08 = Nothing LESS!!!)
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To: Virginia Ridgerunner
Todd Palin is definitely *THUD* material!
40 posted on 08/30/2008 6:28:12 AM PDT by tiredoflaundry (McCain/Palin '08)
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