Posted on 09/05/2008 3:01:40 PM PDT by pissant
If anything can sum up the charm of Sarah Palin, Governor of Alaska and now the Republican Party’s vice-presidential nominee, it is perhaps the nickname she gave her husband, Todd: “First Dude”.
It would, after all, take an icy heart not to warm to an oil rig worker and commercial fisherman from the far reaches of Alaska’s North Slope: a man’s man; a beer drinker; a salt-of-the-earth type. As far as the US public was concerned, Mrs Palin might as well have been married to Jeff Bridges in The Big Lebowski. Adding to the charm were the stories about the 44-year-old sourdough (slang for an Alaskan native) being a stay-at-home dad who cooked for their five children and put them to bed every night.
But amid all the extraordinary revelations about the Palin family that have emerged since her appointment as John McCain’s running-mate last Friday – including the pregnancy of her 17-year-old daughter – a far more complex picture of Todd Palin has emerged.
(Excerpt) Read more at timesonline.co.uk ...
Who give rat** about what UK Times and Fleet Street personally I think MR Palin is pretty cool
BOY Fleet street is bunch of divas LOL!
Note to MSM here and abroad: you’ve been exposed. Now go lie down.
I read it and said to myself, “This is the best you maggots can come up with? That Todd promoted the drilling industry? My gawd, what is he supposed to do? Trash one of the leading industries in the state?”
This just in: He didn't finish all his vegetables when he was seven.
Reckless snowmobiling. The Fleet Street girly men should stick to badminton.
He sounds like a decent enough guy to me. This is a “hit” piece?
“He didn’t finish all his vegetables when he was seven.”
It’s worse than that. He once shot a cabbage. Oh, the veg-manity!
Yep. And I think Todd Palin is a real hot DUDE.
Does anyone know what model Mustang he had?
By British metrosexual standards, it's an A-bomb. For the rest of us, it's a gnat buzzing around our ears.
Has this writer even seen THE BIG LEBOWSKI? Jeff Bridges’ character IS called The Dude, but he’s a perpetually stoned slacker who’s more allergic to real work than Maynard G. Krebs. He might as well be a community organizer.
Todd Palin actually WORKS for a living. Commercial fishing and oil rigging are among the most highly-skilled, physically demanding jobs you can have. They merit respect.
His job is to sit there and look pretty. I bet a bunch of women thinks he does that just fine.
Does that mean I haven’t got a shot?
Oh, goody, a co-Vice Presidency!! The Dems set the tradition for that.
what are the Limeys doing here? Tell em to bugger off!
Chris Ayres at the UK Times sounds like one of those “girly men”.
“Stick to the issues Sarah, leave the salacious intangibles to the lefty pigs.”
And keep smiling! (You too, Todd)
Bombs away!
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