- Todd and Sarah Palin met at a high school basketball game. When she first saw him, she whispered to herself, “Thank you, God.”
- MSN.com named Sarah Palin as one of the “Sexiest Women over 40.”
- Todd once told his high school friends that Palin did not know how to kiss
- While she was pregnant with daughter Willow, Palin dressed as a pregnant Jane Fonda for Halloween.
- In her book Going Rogue, Palin insists that she was manipulated into doing the famous Katie Couric interviews by Nicole Wallace, a communications aide for the campaign, and that Couric was just interested in catching Palin in a “gotcha” moment.
- In response to Palin’s critique on Obama’s work as a community organizer, the Community Organizers of America created a Web site titled “Organizers Fight Back” in which donations were accepted for their new tongue-in-cheek “Sarah Palin Action Fund.” Every dollar donated to the fund was devoted to train new community organizers.
- While she was mayor, the town of Wasilla charged rape victims and/or their insurance companies for rape kits. Former State Rep. Eric Croft repor
ts that the only ongoing resistance to a bill that provided free rape kits was from Wasilla while Palin was mayor from 1996-2002. - While she was pregnant with daughter Willow, Palin dressed as a pregnant Jane Fonda for Halloween.
- Palin is a member of Feminists For Life (FFL) an anti-abortion, pro-contraception organization.
- During the governor’s race, Palin was the only candidate who said that creationism should be discussed in school alongside evolution.
- Palin is a lifelong member of the National Rifle Association (NRA).
- Palin supports capital punishment.
- A legislative panel launched a $100,000 investigation into “Trooper-gate” to determine if Palin abused her power by trying to fire her former brother-in-law who was a state trooper.
- In Going Rouge, Palin talks about her two miscarriages, her Creationist beliefs, her wedding dinner at Wendy’s, and the letter she wrote her children about their brother Trig from the point of view of God.
- Palin’s daughter Bristol (1990) is named after the ocean bay where the Palin family likes to fish. Willow (1994) was named after the willow ptarmigan, Alaska’s state bird. Piper Indy (2001) was named after the Piper cub that Todd flies and the Polaris Indy Snowmobile Todd drove on his first Iron Dog Race.
- The Anchorage Daily News has called Palin “the Joan of Arc of Alaska Politics.”
Palin says her favorite author is C.S. Lewis.- Palin opposes same-sex marriage, embryonic stem cell research, and abortion, even in the case of rape or incest—though she opposes sanctions against women who obtain an abortion.
- In Going Rouge, Palin reveals that Todd told his locker room friends that Sarah didn’t know how to kiss.
- In August 2008, Palin tried to sue the U.S. Department of the Interior in an attempt to remove polar bears as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act because it would hinder Alaska’s gas industry and drilling development.
- Though Palin often said during her campaign speeches that she had said “Thanks, but no thanks” to the “Bridge to Nowhere” in Ketchikan, Alaska, she actually initially supported the bridge. It was only when the idea to build the bridge became unpopular that she reversed her position.
- -When Palin was first selected to be McCain’s running mate, she thought the biggest secret would be that she once got a D in college.
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