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Rebecca Johnson: 'I am a liberal, but I'm blown away by Sarah Palin'
telegraph.co.uk ^ | September 11, 2008 | Rebecca Johnson

Posted on 09/10/2008 9:12:17 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY

When my cell phone rang on vacation, I eyed the phone number wearily. It was my employer, Vogue, calling. My four-year-old, just out of the ocean and covered in sand, was whining for a shower. My three-year-old was thirsty. My hedge-fund husband was upstairs on his BlackBerry making plans to buy Dubai. I picked up the phone.

It was the publicist from the magazine calling to say that CNN wanted to interview me about Sarah Palin. My initial response was cool. "What do they want to talk about?"

"You're one of the few people who has interviewed her for a national publication," the publicist answered, referring to an article I had written earlier this year profiling the governor of Alaska for the magazine.

"Is she dead?" I asked worriedly. Alaska is notorious for small plane crashes - that's how the politician father of the writer and journalist Cokie Roberts died - and I knew Palin owned a float plane.

It never really occurred to me that she might be the vice-presidential candidate. With so little time in office, even Alaskans hadn't yet made up their mind about Sarah Palin's job as governor of the state.

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: mccainpalin

1 posted on 09/10/2008 9:12:18 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
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To: Free ThinkerNY

See tagline!


2 posted on 09/10/2008 9:15:30 PM PDT by NordP (PALIN POWER: She's Ronald Reagan in heels & Teddy Roosevelt in a dress!)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

It’s easy to tell which liberals accept or admire Sarah — the honest ones.


3 posted on 09/10/2008 9:16:34 PM PDT by Kevmo (Obama Birth Certificate is a Forgery. http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/certifigate/index?tab=articles)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

We had dinner last night with a family friend just like this.

note: ultimately fembots will be unhappy with Sarah since Sarah is not what they dream of other than similar chromosome count but heck, they can play in our sandbox.


4 posted on 09/10/2008 9:18:18 PM PDT by wardaddy (Obama/Pol Pot 2008)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

“With so little time in office, even Alaskans hadn’t yet made up their mind about Sarah Palin’s job as governor of the state.”

Sure, that’s why she has an 80% approval rating...


5 posted on 09/10/2008 9:18:33 PM PDT by CA Conservative
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To: NordP
I also like Baberaham Lincoln.
6 posted on 09/10/2008 9:19:30 PM PDT by alecqss
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To: Free ThinkerNY

It really is amazing. I’m a 50 plus year old male and I see pictures like this and smile broadly and wipe tears out of my eyes at the same time. It’s just not right..

Don’t wake me, let me have this dream a little longer.


7 posted on 09/10/2008 9:25:18 PM PDT by bleach (They have Obama- We have Oh! MAMA.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Thank you, Ms. Johnson, for a lovely, and fair, article about Gov. Palin. We appreciate that you are a liberal, but we appreciate your fairness even more! Thank you.
8 posted on 09/10/2008 9:27:42 PM PDT by singfreedom (Obama's solution to the energy crisis: check the air in your tires! Why didn't we think of that?)
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To: bleach

I have a similar reaction to that pic. She’s an inspiring figure.


9 posted on 09/10/2008 9:33:18 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY ((((Stop the Obamanation!))))
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To: alecqss

That’s good!


10 posted on 09/10/2008 9:43:52 PM PDT by NordP (PALIN POWER: She's Ronald Reagan in heels & Teddy Roosevelt in a dress!)
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To: bleach
It really is amazing. I’m a 50 plus year old male and I see pictures like this and smile broadly and wipe tears out of my eyes at the same time. It’s just not right..

Don’t wake me, let me have this dream a little longer.

Same here. 50 plus year-old male. And the same holds true for the remote part of high mountain California that I live in:

"You don't plan well, you don't make it through the winter. The wood pile outside Sarah Palin's parents' house is half a city block long for a reason. Forget New York City. If you can make it in Alaska, you can make it anywhere. When Sarah Palin says she doesn't care what we east coast liberals think about her, she means it."

11 posted on 09/10/2008 9:47:26 PM PDT by Inyo-Mono (No longer holding my nose to vote - McCain/Palin 2008!)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
"Sarah Palin is the vice-presidential candidate," I told my mother when I found her under a beach umbrella. We hugged each other joyfully. Politics be damned, Palin was a woman and she was an Alaskan! Moreover, I had been impressed with her when I interviewed her - not for her politics (I'm one of those east coast liberals she doesn't care about) but for the other things that people across the country are responding to right now:her warmth, her work ethic, her "can-do" attitude. If life is simply a reprise of high school, Palin was the jock who attended church faithfully, ran the soup kitchen, and organised the bake sale. If her paper on the Lincoln-Douglas debate wasn't the most nuanced, so be it. Something has to give.

I thought this was a very interesting article, well worth reading the whole.

12 posted on 09/10/2008 9:48:53 PM PDT by Hetty_Fauxvert (Marxist Obama will trash the USA for the next 30 years. Vote McCain!)
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To: Hetty_Fauxvert
Johnson's Vogue article from February is worth a read too. I would like as many people as possible to read the stuff written about Palin before she was on the ticket--a truer measure of her. Lots of stuff in the article that Freepers will like, as well as this picture of her without glasses, which I wouldn't have guessed in a million years was her:


13 posted on 09/10/2008 10:07:33 PM PDT by kalt
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Obama should be really worried.

He threw one woman under the bus and turns around to face one who will return the favor.

14 posted on 09/10/2008 10:08:11 PM PDT by CaptainK (...please make it stop. Shake a can of pennies at it.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
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15 posted on 09/10/2008 10:37:49 PM PDT by xuberalles (The Best Anti-Liberal Novelties On The Net! http://www.cafepress.com/titillatingtees)
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