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McCain’s Mrs. Right (very good read)
Newsweek ^ | 8/30/08 | Evan THomas

Posted on 08/30/2008 2:43:29 PM PDT by pissant

Sarah Palin posed for a photo spread in Vogue, but that's about as far as the glamour goes. She piles her hair up in a librarian's bun and wears what she calls "schoolmarm" glasses (one blogger compared her to "Tina Fey's sexier sister"). She was at one time a beauty queen, Miss Wasilla 1984, in her hometown, population: 7,000 or so. "We were really surprised when she wanted to do it," her father, Chuck, told the Vogue reporter. "That wasn't her thing." Basketball and hunting were more like it. Palin regretted the whole beauty pageant experience. "They made us line up in bathing suits and turn our backs so the male judges could look at our butts. I couldn't believe it!" she told Vogue.

She tried being a sportscaster for a while, but ended up as a politician, or rather an anti-politician. She seemed to love to take on the good ole boys, to get in the face of the state's Republican political establishment and Big Oil, the two dominant forces in Alaska, at least until Palin came along. She smiles a lot and has a thick skin, laughing off reporters who write about her black go-go boots or leering bloggers, like the Washington, D.C.-based Wonkette, which dubbed her "the hottest governor in all 50 states."

(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...


TOPICS: Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008veep; evanthomas; mccain; palin
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The throw rug on her couch is the skin of a grizzly bear shot by her father, a retired teacher turned "nuisance-control specialist" (varmint hunter for hire) whose pickup truck bears the sticker VEGETARIAN—OLD INDIAN WORD FOR "BAD HUNTER." (Palin herself is a lifetime member of the National Rifle Association; for years, she or her husband caught all the fish or shot all the meat that her family eats.)

At the governor's mansion in Juneau, she got rid of the chef. The NEWSWEEK reporter asked her what working mother in her right mind would dismiss someone whose sole job was to cook for her family. She replied, "I don't want them thinking when I'm done being governor that it's normal to have a chef. It's OK for them to have macaroni and cheese."

1 posted on 08/30/2008 2:43:29 PM PDT by pissant
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To: pissant
VEGETARIAN—OLD INDIAN WORD FOR “BAD HUNTER.”

ROFLMAO...HAHAHAHAHA, that's my new tagline. I love this woman's family.

2 posted on 08/30/2008 2:46:34 PM PDT by LoneStarGI (VEGETARIAN—OLD INDIAN WORD FOR "BAD HUNTER.")
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To: pissant

Bump for later...it’s dinner time.


3 posted on 08/30/2008 2:49:59 PM PDT by bcsco (Palin runs a state. Obama runs...from his ties to Communism.)
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To: LoneStarGI

That’s the funniest thing I’ve read this week!


4 posted on 08/30/2008 2:50:11 PM PDT by FlyVet
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To: LoneStarGI

Sarah has inspired a lot of new tag lines.


5 posted on 08/30/2008 2:51:03 PM PDT by Fast Moving Angel (Sarah runs a state, Obama runs his mouth)
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To: pissant

Great read! With Evan Thomas in charge of the liberal team of writers, there are a few obligatory hits on her. But she really comes through looking great.

Remarkable, coming from Newsweak.

The fact is, among other things, she’s a great subject for news writers to exploit. Which would you rather read, the adventures of Sarah Palin, bear hunter, or yet another piece of empty Obama worship?


6 posted on 08/30/2008 3:08:27 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: pissant

[One of McCain’s closest advisers, Sen. Lindsay Graham, had been partial to Sen. Joe Lieberman]

Big surprise...not.


7 posted on 08/30/2008 3:10:50 PM PDT by KansasGirl ( b/c Obama is just creepy.)
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To: KansasGirl

If it really was between Lieberman and Palin, then, I now know what it feels like to dodge a bullet.


8 posted on 08/30/2008 3:13:52 PM PDT by fhayek
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To: pissant

Great article! I have a feeling that Jonathan Alter is pouting and giving Mr. Thomas the silent treatment.


9 posted on 08/30/2008 3:24:55 PM PDT by frankjr
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To: bcsco

Mooseburger?


10 posted on 08/30/2008 3:25:25 PM PDT by Issaquahking (McCain/Palin rule - libs drool. All over but the crying now!)
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To: Issaquahking

You have NO IDEA how good they are! YUMMMMM!


11 posted on 08/30/2008 3:26:55 PM PDT by WellyP
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To: Issaquahking

Don’t I wish :)


12 posted on 08/30/2008 3:34:02 PM PDT by bcsco (Palin runs a state. Obama runs...from his ties to Communism.)
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To: WellyP

I never ate beef till I was over 18. 10,000 wolves can’t be wrong, eat moose.


13 posted on 08/30/2008 3:37:10 PM PDT by Issaquahking (McCain/Palin rule - libs drool. All over but the crying now!)
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To: pissant

Most of it’s a very nice article. She sounds really neat, in fact! We already knew that, of course...


14 posted on 08/30/2008 3:40:26 PM PDT by livius
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To: fhayek
If it really was between Lieberman and Palin, then, I now know what it feels like to dodge a bullet.

Yes indeed! I've been spoiled by 8 years of Dick Cheney, but when I think it might have been Lieberman, Palin's not so unpalatable.

15 posted on 08/30/2008 3:42:24 PM PDT by 668 - Neighbor of the Beast (Obama bin Biden -- So let it be written; so let it be done!)
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To: pissant
(At one Washington think tank, staffers were joking that Palin's best strategy in the debate would be to cede all her time to Biden.)

LOL! Wouldn't be hard -- I'd been thinking the biggest challenge in debating Biden would be getting a word in edgewise! ;-)

16 posted on 08/30/2008 3:46:44 PM PDT by maryz
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To: Fast Moving Angel

Look at mine!


17 posted on 08/30/2008 4:05:38 PM PDT by RightFighter (If Obama had as much experience as Sarah Palin, he'd be ready to be Vice-President, too!)
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To: pissant; WhistlingPastTheGraveyard
The throw rug on her couch is the skin of a grizzly bear shot by her father, a retired teacher turned "nuisance-control specialist" (varmint hunter for hire) whose pickup truck bears the sticker VEGETARIAN—OLD INDIAN WORD FOR "BAD HUNTER."

That's one nice "throw rug".

18 posted on 08/30/2008 4:13:30 PM PDT by cgk (I don't see myself as a conservative. I see myself as a religious, right-wing, wacko extremist.)
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To: RightFighter

Good one!!!


19 posted on 08/30/2008 4:23:28 PM PDT by Fast Moving Angel (Sarah runs a state, Obama runs his mouth)
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To: KansasGirl
One of McCain’s closest advisers, Sen. Lindsay Graham, had been partial to Sen. Joe Lieberman

Yeah, and Linsee wishes they were closer.

20 posted on 08/30/2008 4:44:23 PM PDT by upchuck (Law of Logical Argument: Anything is possible if you don't know what you are talking about. (nObama))
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