Last time you saw Todd Palin he was standing quietly, uncomfortably by his woman on the campaign trail, as she got alternately pilloried and praised. Now meet him on his own terms, as a blue-collar outdoorsman who competes in one of the toughest races on Earth.
By Daniel Duane
This is an excerpt. To read the full article, click here.
Todd Palin is trying to scare me. That’s what I’m thinking, alone on a borrowed snowmobile in the fading Alaskan light, cold as hell by a frozen lake. I can barely see Palin and his racing buddy Scott Davis a quarter mile off, near a few stumpy trees. But I can hear them loud and clear, revving their two-stroke engines, circling in their Arctic Cat F6 snowmobiles, punishing the winter sky with an ear-splitting whine familiar to nature lovers everywhere. “Ride over to that point of land!” Palin had screamed at me over the engine roar a moment earlier, struggling to be heard. “Then turn around! We’ll do a speed run past you, let you feel how fast we go!”
Little more than black specks now, obscured by their powerful headlights, the men turn toward me and charge. The wail gets louder and the headlights grow. Fifty mph, 60, 70, now less than a hundred yards away. Eighty mph, 90, on a bullet path right to where I’m sitting. He’s going to mess up and kill me.
I take some comfort in reminding myself that we are talking about the husband of a certain prominent Alaska governor. A 44-year-old father of five. Would he really risk vehicular manslaughter? But then again, he’s also a motorhead country boy whose favorite recreational activity — the big dream of each calendar year — is the Tesoro Iron Dog, the longest snowmobile race on Earth. It’s a mind-numbing six-day run across nearly 2,000 miles of extreme arctic wilderness. Palin has won it four times and might have won it again in 2008, partnered with Davis, if he hadn’t smacked into a half-buried oil drum on the frozen Yukon River while doing 60, shattering an arm. He doesn’t mind playing rough. Do I chicken out and dive onto the ice?
Whooom!
Palin bombs on by, and the air cushion pushes my face.
Whooom!
Davis now — a black lightning bolt.
My brain takes a few seconds to process what my eyes barely caught: two Alaskan buddies in black racing duds and black helmets, leaning way back on their padded seats, gloved hands gripping heated handlebars, as they blow by me at 100 mph.
It’s the day before Barack Obama’s inauguration, and Palin may well wish he were somewhere else — like, just for example, at the United States Naval Observatory in DC, taking the keys to the vice-president’s mansion from Dick Cheney — but you’d never guess that from seeing him out here on his Arctic Cat, a black plastic mask and goggles hiding that familiar mug and a ridiculous amount of horsepower under his ass.
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Rat-a-tat-tat.
We’re at Davis’s workshop, where the guys are tinkering with their machines three weeks before the 2009 Iron Dog. The wall-mounted flatscreen, tuned to Fox News, is showing the pre-inauguration festivities, while Palin works the trigger on a cordless DeWalt impact-driver.
Rat-a-tat-tat.
Hell of a noise, like an assault rifle. Like the one carried by Palin’s 19-year-old son Track, who is home on leave.
“All I have to say about the campaign,” Palin says, eyes flickering to and from the TV, “is it was awesome, okay?”
Rat-a-tat-tat.
A once-in-a-lifetime deal, see — being catapulted onto the national stage and traveling the country and seeing cities he never dreamed of seeing, watching his wife speak at the Republican National Convention and in front of adoring crowds at rallies, befriending John McCain, a bona fide war hero. These are the takeaway experiences Todd Palin would prefer to focus on, even as McCain insiders portrayed his wife as uncontrollable and blamed her for the campaign’s collapse.
“I’m not going to get wrapped around the axles on a few people’s comments — ‘She’s a diva,’ or whatever,” Palin says. “There was no name attached to that, so who knows if it’s really true. I mean, all the little negative stuff out there that’s been exploited? To me? I have nothing but respect for the McCains, because they’re a class act. And some people, the detractors, they get bent out of shape.” He shakes his head, as if disbelieving that even some of his own Alaskans would turn on his wife. “They’re so full of anger, you know? I mean, why wouldn’t anybody be proud of one of their citizens being nominated to the VP? Unless you’re just a real hater?”
Rat-a-tat-tat.
A BlackBerry beeps on the workshop counter. The device’s wallpaper shows Palin’s baby boy Trigg — the one with Down’s — lying next to newborn grandson Tripp. It’s Sarah calling from Anchorage. So Todd answers and walks off across the shop, hunting for privacy.
“He’s busy. He’s way busy,” Davis tells me, watching his friend. “All the stuff that comes along with Sarah’s position…”
While his wife is out still doing relentless TV, shopping a book proposal, and forming a political committee that may be a precursor to a 2012 presidential run, Palin couldn’t have found a better spot to hide out than here at Davis’s place near Soldotna, 200 miles from the Palins’ home in Wasilla. Davis owns a major construction company with lucrative state contracts, and this building — a kind of gearhead paradise, Alaska Rich Guy Version — is the reward, with a 40-foot mobile home parked along one wall, a shiny four-wheel ATV, and room for Davis’s dozen snowmobiles, or, as the locals call them, “snowmachines.” Four new ones — identical Arctic Cat F6s — take up the main work area, two for Davis, a seven-time Iron Dog winner himself, and two for Palin. A huge part of the run-up to every year’s Iron Dog is the time these two buddies spend in the surrounding woods, hammering over bumpy terrain and then hanging out in this shop, making tweaks and changing out parts on their F6s.
“I’ve had days,” Davis tells me, “where I’ll wake up in the house at 6 am and walk over here in the dark and find shithead already sitting in his truck, waiting for me. That means he got at least a 2 am start out of Wasilla.”
Palin comes walking back toward us, still talking to Sarah on the BlackBerry. “I must have just missed it,” he says to her.
Grabbing the remote, he turns up the volume. Fox News personality Glenn Beck has apparently just told Sarah Palin she’s “one hot grandma” and then asked her if Obama will be her president too. (“Absolutely,” she responded. “We are all Americans.”)
But by the time Todd gets to the TV, the show has ended, and Fox has returned to footage of the emotional crowds in the capital.
“Lot of excitement in DC, huh?” Palin, now off the BlackBerry, says to me, sounding a bit wistful.
Yes, lots of excitement in DC.
He nods, then returns to work on the Arctic Cat.
Rat-a-tat-tat.
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April 1st, 2009 at 6:32 pm
I understand that Todd Palin is disavowing the fact that his wife went on a wild carte blance shopping spree while running for Vice President. Sadly, the facts belie his words. There are countless accounts of her ordering things, and the biggest damnation of the thing is the words of the poor sap who was forced to pay for the thing when he saw the bill. Of course, Palin consistently gets caught in lies and half truths, e.g., had engagments in Alaska and couldn’t attend southern Republican conference, but was really at D.C. society event to rub elbows with big shots, etc.,
The woman is a joke. Her husband is the joke master. She is against abortion and birth control, . . and has a kid who is pregnant. Against government stimulus for schools, but has a kid who is a dropout. Against government corruption, but has totally abused the governments guidelines to line her own pockets with travel money, etc.,
Well, the joke is going to be on her when she finds out that only twenty percent of the Republican party voters think she is worth voting for. In real world terms that will amount to about 2% of all voters. Basically, when all is said and done, I doubt she could get elected dog catcher in Alaska.
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ramrocks Reply:
April 1st, 2009 at 7:48 pm
Could you please provide links to your accusations that she went shopping at Saks during the elction? And that she ordered someone to purchase something for her? The aides who put their names on the record all denied that. They said that she asked for nothing but “a diet dr. pepper” every once in a while. BTW, her daughter is not a drop out either. You’re obviously one of the “haters” that Todd Palin mentioned.
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v22forever Reply:
April 2nd, 2009 at 1:27 am
Sorry Charlie, but does the name Jeff Larson ring any bells with you? http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/10/22/gop-consultant-reimbursed-for-palin-shopping-spree/
What do you think Sarah was doing at Saks Fifth Avenue, looking at goldfish? LOL
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1008/14805.html
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Alaskan Reply:
April 2nd, 2009 at 1:25 pm
Not finishing high school = dropout. Both her oldest kids are dropouts.
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die Anmaßung Reply:
April 1st, 2009 at 8:57 pm
v22forever: Though you’re certainly have a uninformed and confused mind, you lamely attempt to speak as an authoritarian but it is obvious that you are not one who cites the truth. Questions to you are:
1)Source of your facts is?
2)Where are the countless accounts of her ordering things, etc.?
3)What lies and half-truths has Govenor Palin been caught in?
You say that Govenor Palin is hardly a joke; if this were true, the libs and whatever kind you are wouldn’t find themselves running scared of what is certain to happen in 2010 and 2012 whenever there will certainly be a new Congress and a qualified President (of course, this excludes BO since I said “qualified”.
You want to denegrate the Palin children? For what gain? Another of your gutter remarks and claims where truth cannot enter such a gutter?
You…and persons like you…are truly the joke. Unfortunately, a great Country as this cannot survive with such jokes and avoid all truths as you deny them. Pathetic is a mild description of your post.
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Readme Reply:
April 1st, 2009 at 11:23 pm
Don’t believe the trash about Sarah, just go to palingates.com and then crossread among the different blogs.
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v22forever Reply:
April 2nd, 2009 at 1:46 am
I hope the Republican Party will run Sarah Palin in the next election. She is every Democrat’s dream opposition candidate. I’d probably send her a few bucks to help her win the GOP top spot. Between her, Michael Steel, Rush Limbaugh et.al., it promises to be a real three ring circus.
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resident alien Reply:
April 22nd, 2009 at 1:15 pm
If she would be a dream of every democRATs candidate, the democRATs wouldn’t try to do anything to throw dirt and sh*t to Sarah and her family. But remember: the people who throw sh*t stink the most at the end. And now, go back to Obama’s office and continue playing under his desk.
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J Johnson Reply:
April 22nd, 2009 at 8:40 pm
I always like to hear the voice of erudition. Unfortunately, you are not it.
dianne4dees Reply:
April 23rd, 2009 at 10:32 pm
You don’t have to wait till 2012 for a three-ring circus, just take a look at the three-ring circus going on with the BO administration right now. The latest addition to the circus is Janet Napolitano………….now there’s a three-ring circus for you. She doesn’t even know that illegals crossing the border nto the U.S. is against the law, insults the Canadian people and govt. by saying that all of the 9/11 terrorists came across the Canadian border into the US, and grossly insults our military by saying anyone returning home from the military is a prime candidate to get involved in rightwing extremism. I felt safer with Pres. Bush running this country than I’ve felt since BO took office.
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Rivkalicious Reply:
April 3rd, 2009 at 7:49 pm
You can bet Todd was inwardly relieved that he got to go back to The Great Land and run his machine flat out at 100 mph. Having lived there myself, and still missing it every day years later, many, if not most of those who love the place wouldn’t willingly leave to live inside the beltway, for any amount of money. Dirty air, dirty crime, dirty politicians……clean air, clean land with far less crime, and largely unpretentious people. Which would you pick? Thank God the Palin kids get to stay in paradise, rather than moving to that god forsaken nasty place.
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Shawn Reply:
April 7th, 2009 at 12:12 pm
I love how liberals point to her shopping spree of expensive clothes but pay no mind to the endless private jets, $100 an ounce steak at the Obama’s, and special Wednesday night concerts by Stevie Wonder at the White House…I’m sure that all comes cheap…
Not to mention it seems the mainstream media is obsessed with Michele Obama’s fashion but for some strange reason no price tags itemized for scrutiny???
Always an incredible double standard.
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v22forever Reply:
April 7th, 2009 at 2:57 pm
Shawn, can you send me a link to proof that those steaks cost $100.00 an ounce and when we have provided private jets for people? Methinks these are things which only exist in your imagination. Please note, also, that people who perform at the White House do it for free. (They consider it a privledge to entertain at the White House)
Yes, the White House does host state dinners, and these cost the taxpayers money, but it is part of the White House’s budget (approved by Congress). They call it Statecraft. Of course, I guess you would take up a collection at the table and send someone down to the local McDonalds for hamburgers, eh?
Look, if you are going to try and defend the Mental Dwarf from Alaska, try to get your facts straight.
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Shawn Reply:
April 9th, 2009 at 4:44 pm
Try googling “white house steak dinner” and then go to
http://1-800-kobebeef.com/116ozribeyes.html
You’ll see the going price for that kind of meat you idiot. $99.99 per 16oz.
The point is that you hypocrites complain about Sarah Palin’s spending and meanwhile you ignore the same or worse behavior on the part of the Obama’s.
Palin’s wardrobe budget was approved by the RNC and that doesn’t cost the taxpayers a dime so I guess she can spend the voluntary campaign dollars on whatever she wants right? Or would you rather redistribute that wealth?
Meanwhile Michele Obama’s wardrobe IS PAYED BY TAXPAYERS…but that’s different because it’s the Obamas…correct?
You want to talk personal spending? What about the $150 MILLION Obama inauguration cost. I thought Obama was about the little guy? $150 Mil in this economy?
But of course that’s okay too?? If I remember correctly you liberals through a mighty fit about Bush’s $40 million….hmmm…..MORE HYPOCRISY. At least use the same set of standards for everyone.
Please just admit that you socialist uneducated pieces of trash hate Palin and Bush. Bush will always be the idiot and Obama will do no wrong in your eyes. Facts aren’t really what you’re concerned with. American conservatives aren’t going to take your self righteous intellectualism any longer. We’re tired of it. Now fuck off.
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v22forever Reply:
April 10th, 2009 at 5:49 am
Shawn, I take it you didn’t do well in elementary arithmetic. Your original post said they were eating steaks which cost “$100.00 per ounce”, and now you give me an example of a steak which costs $100.00 per 16 OZ. That breaks down to $$6.25 per ounce, . . hardly your original contention. Just the same, costs for these dinners are part of the President’s budget, . . just as they were for President Bush’s budget.
Next you begrudge the President for having an inauguration. Perhaps a hand off of power behind the bowling alley would be more to your liking, . . LOL
Your contention that Barack and Michele Obama were given free clothing was not true prior to the election:
http://www.newsday.com/services/newspaper/printedition/tuesday/nation/ny-usmich285901676oct28,0,5562320.story
And it isn’t true now, after the election. Michele Obama is given clothing to wear by fashion designers wanting the exposure. Lest you think that wrong, consider the fact that she is not a public servant and accepting that clothing to wear is no different than being paid to model. Much of her’s and her children’s clothing is designed for security purposes to protect them from the odd errant malcontent, such as one might find on a message board like this.
As for President Obama, I am pretty sure the taxpayers pay for his clothing, considering that it is all tailor made to conceal bullet proof vests, etc., Lest you think that a crime, please consider that we pay for the Secret Service to protect him too.
Your assertions are erroneous to say the least.
Irma Reply:
April 22nd, 2009 at 1:21 pm
In the name of Jesus, I ask that you control the tongue of all those who speak out against Sarah and her family.
Father, I ask that you keep all these people from idle words and foolishly talking things that are contrary to the truth (opinions, backbiters, rumors, meddlers, hearsay, slander, scandalmonger). Your Word says that the tongue defiles, that it sets on fire the course of nature, that it is set on fire of hell. For your words says, “I will take revenge and be satisfied. In due time their foot will slip, because their day of disaster is near. Their doom is coming quickly. Deuteronomy 32:35
Father, cancel its power and dedicate their mouth to speak excellent things and right things. For their mouth shall utter truth that is pleasing to You.
Father, cause them to put away false and dishonest speech, and willful and contrary talk. Guard their mouth and their heart with all diligence. Refuse to give Satan any place in them.
Thank you Lord in the Name of Jesus
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J Johnson Reply:
April 22nd, 2009 at 8:38 pm
Irma, I could reply to your wacko ramblings, but I think your post can stand by itself as a testament to the type of kooks that Palin appeals to. Personally, my guess is that you have spent some time in mental institutions or should be spending time in one.
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April 1st, 2009 at 10:43 pm
Looks like an interesting article. Think I’ll pick up a copy and finish it. How can anyone not like the Palins? It doesn’t make sense to me. They seem like good people to me. Now, the haters? As far as I’m concerned, are dysfunctional and twisted. They need thearapy. Perhaps some time in the great outdoors.
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v22forever Reply:
April 2nd, 2009 at 1:51 am
Yes Larry, you are probably right. We “haters” need help. Perhaps a good old exorcism will work?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwkb9_zB2Pg
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Alaskan Reply:
April 2nd, 2009 at 1:24 pm
You should see what happens when you get on Sarah’s bad side (which is far bigger than her good side). You’d understand why people don’t like these narcissistic, dishonest, self-serving idiots.
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Rosie Higgins Reply:
April 3rd, 2009 at 7:10 pm
How can anybody hate the Palins? We “haters” don’t hate the Palins…we love our country and don’t want to see it in the hands of uneducated hillbilly trash. Todd “wins” huge sums of money in snowmobile races…strangely after his wife becomes governor and he becomes an “oil company consultant”….give me a break….as for the kids…they’ve sent one to fight a war built on lies, and allowed one to enter adulthood without the information she needed to stay in school and get an education, without the stress of a baby……come on the family are dysfunctional….we don’t hate the Palins…we are appalled by them. Save your amateur psychoanalysis.
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April 1st, 2009 at 10:59 pm
Can’t wait to get this issue in the mail. I’m interested to read the whole thing. As for Sarah: Its not that she’s a joke, she’s just found herself completely out of her depth. I mean she didn’t even have the self knowledge to realize she was in over her head. Her whole tact is ancient. I can’t imagine America is going to be in a place in 2012 where someone like herself will be relevant.
However, the real issue is that Mens Journal had the stones to call a snowmobile a snowmobile. Snowmachine…give me a break.
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Life_Long_Alaskan Reply:
April 2nd, 2009 at 2:47 pm
Snowmobiles in Alaska have always, always, been referred to as “snowmachines”. Even by the snowmachine dealers themselves. It’s a regional thing I guess, and shows that we Alaskans still
“do not give a damn how they do it outside”.
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Barbara Reply:
April 3rd, 2009 at 2:09 pm
You bring God into an arena where anger prevails. You should not reference the Bible in such a derogatory debate. Shame on you. God has no quarrel with the republicans or democrats only the sinners! I don’t hate Palins, I just do not respect people who think only of themselves to the point of lying and causing rumors to spread rampant about America’s President. They say all is fair in love and war and politics, but a christian, a true Christian would never resort to such low-character tactics as to slander an honest man. Sarah has caused the anger that circulates around her and her family because she is a liar and a selfish spoiled brat who wants her way always. That’s not Bi-Partisanship.
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Life_Long_Alaskan Reply:
April 3rd, 2009 at 2:59 pm
Yo Barbra,
Damn girl, get a grip! That time zone yo livin in has messed wit yo head. Chill cause love be all around you.
Cani git a amen? Said, cani get a amen?
ThankyaJeeeeeesus.
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Shawn Reply:
April 9th, 2009 at 4:49 pm
Brad-
Are you serious? I love the argument you women haters make about how “unqualified” Palin while you pull the lever for Obama -the man who has never run any kind of business. Apparently you think Obama was a great guy to run the world’s largest economy at it’s worst?
He’s already proven he doesn’t understand economics but rather is interested in destroying the dollar further. The socialist network he is setting up will be the end of America and turn us into the same steaming heap of shit as other countries that have tried to turn the poor against the people that provide jobs for them - yes I’m talking about the evil rich. So enjoy your “qualified” prez.
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resident alien Reply:
April 22nd, 2009 at 1:21 pm
- completely out of her depth
- didn’t even have the self knowledge to realize she was in over her head
do you speak about Obama???? Then you should write “his” and “he” …
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April 1st, 2009 at 11:13 pm
Please google Todd Palin, shadow governor, or Sarah Palin. Be informed before becoming a hater.
Do you read the bible? then, you can google can’t you?
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April 1st, 2009 at 11:51 pm
it’s kinda funny how the rightwing wackos meander all around the actual truth…
but as soon as one of them libs make a comment the noeCons say
hater
show my the source
wait till a real canidate runs
the best may be… don’t slam a neoCon family member
of course the right parades their sad little kids and spouses in front of the cameras. and NEVER miss a chance to call family members on the left dogs, and other very ugly names.
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April 2nd, 2009 at 1:22 pm
Please, the Iron Dog is not “one of the toughest races on earth”. Not even close. Try a race that’s actually powered by human effort.
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April 2nd, 2009 at 3:26 pm
The ONLY thing Sarah has accomplished in her tenure as our governor is to completely divide a people who were once very amicable with one another. In Alaska, we tend to be self reliant, and to an extent, reliant on one another in term of community. Sarah has drawn an “us” or “them” line in the sand whereby people are having to choose sides. Just like the religious extremests of other nations, Sarah has brought this horrific mentality to us. It’s pathetic. She should be ASHAMED of what she’s done to Alaskans. Sarah Sucks.
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LS Reply:
April 2nd, 2009 at 3:39 pm
PS: Don’t call me a “hater” either. That’s Sarah’s juvenille term for others which is again meant to divide, rather than unite people. We are not all clones and have diverse backgrounds, it’s unreasonable we’ll all think the same, but it’s not unreasonable to find common ground to work from for a better future. I’m not a hater, but I can plainly see that my views are of no interest to my governor.
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topper Reply:
April 12th, 2009 at 2:01 am
And Obama has no interest in our views. Maybe we should just divide and get it over with.
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April 3rd, 2009 at 12:21 pm
People are always afraid of what they don’t understand.
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April 18th, 2009 at 11:10 am
Why are we even having to read about someone like Todd Palin who in my opinion is as un-American as they come having been an active and visible member in the Alaskan Independence Party(AIP)from 10/95-7/02. Read about what these people stand for and believe in and how he only quit when his wife decided to pursue being governor of Alaska in 2002.
Can’t you find better Americans and men to write about besides this guy?
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/09/the-alaska-divi.html
http://thebruceblog.wordpress.com/2008/10/06/country-first-sarah-and-todd-palins-troubled-ties-to-aip-alaska-first-secession-and-terrorism/
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-brooks4-2008sep04,0,5675222.column
http://www.akip.org/
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April 21st, 2009 at 7:48 pm
Great article.
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April 22nd, 2009 at 11:21 am
Great article about Todd Palin. Thank you! Finally someone is getting the truth out there about the Palin family.
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April 22nd, 2009 at 4:46 pm
Todd is a great guy, father, and a supportive husband. He does one of the TOUGHEST jobs, commercial fishing. In fact there’s a story of his life in danger when he braved a storm in his boat. This is a working man. I can’t find anything to criticize him for, and this article presents such a great profile of Todd.
Todd also has NATIVE AMERICAN roots and the article shows that side of him. He’s a great all-around american and guy’s guy. He’s what a REAL MAN should be, and that’s why others jealous of his life and his own comfort in his own skin and abilities, target him. He hunts or catches his own food, he’s good with tools and gears, a sportsman and snow machine winner (the LONGEST and most difficult and brutal RACE in the nation). Yet he’s strong and quiet. He’s not narcissistic nor self-promoting. A real threat to other men who are super conscious of how others perceive them due to an underlying self-esteem issue and a lack of confidence in their manhood. Leave Todd the MAN alone because these boys are competing with someone who does tough work while they probably prefer their manicures and lattes. For those male critics, grow up and be a man like Todd. Todd has many more admirable qualities that trump your snickering and smearing. He leaves you alone but you haters can’t stand his happy life. What, all those women and money and elite values aren’t enough to satisfy you in your small life? Aren’t you supposed to be so happy that this vileness and hatred should be absent? Yet you present that nastiness, I wonder why Todd haters and liberals?? You libs “won” didn’t you? So why are you on a perpetual campaign for the O leader?? Shouldn’t you be celebrating the GOOD, POSITIVE, HOPEFUL changes instead of wallowing in hate? What happened to you?
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April 22nd, 2009 at 5:07 pm
I just do what Im told.
racism, hypocrisy and being controlled by an elite right wing propaganda campaign to make me vote against my own best interest is ok with me too.
im just here because they told me to make a big fuss about this article and play like those darn democrats really have something aginst us workin folk.
maybe if I make anough blogpost comments and forward enough chain hate email i might win the lottery and get myself a 50 million dollar corporate bonus.
here is what Im supposed to say
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lately, the attacks on the Palins (Todd is a new target) come direclty from Obama’s (endless) campaign manager, David Axelrod, a human version of a cesspool.
Here’s how it works: if there’s an article favorable to the Palins, Axelrod immediatly hustles out a herd of Obama-bots to trash the article . . . and slime the Palins. That’s one reason Obama has that perpetual idiotic grin on his face.
Todd Palin is one of the most amazing parents in America; he is one of Alaska’s greatest athletes; and he’s a normal American member of the middle-class, an oil field production worker (and a union member) and a commercial fisherman, one of the world’s toughest jobs. In contrast, the Obama family, ($2.7 million income last year) as pure American eliitists, has absolutely nothing in common with the Palins. If you can go to the articles and leave your thoughts on the Palins — and their critics — it will help advance the causes of fairness and decency in America. Remember, the Obama-bots who hate the Palin family also hate your and your family.
(Gary’s request follows) Thanks for your help!
Hey, can you get on the Men’s Journal and Esquire articles about Todd? Also, can you have Steve get a post up? Todd has been raked over the coals in their blog sections. I need you to get the truth out in a couple of posts about those awesome articles and encourage die hards to go in there and take over the comments etc etc etc. Then I can blast out to everyone I know too. I have Joe working this angle too. We need everyone on this. Thanks!
I hope that really helps rally all you other free thinking, intelligent and fairnes minded republicans, like me.
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April 23rd, 2009 at 1:50 am
Ok, let me see if I have this straight. Palin backs his wife…gets a little upset at anyone who doesn’t share his adoration for the mother of his kids, the “hot” grandmother of his soon to be grandchild. Doesn’t understand what is or isn’t alot of money to spend on clothes. Makes the city slicker look sissyfied…
And this is bad because?
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April 23rd, 2009 at 10:13 pm
I will never understand why people make a hobby of watching every single little move that people make, when they so obviously hate that particular person??? I mean, isn’t that what groupies do when they admire someone? I think these haters are secret admirers who are so messed up by Obama’s upside down communist world that they don’t know if they hate or love the Palins. I say they love her (just like I do) because they just can’t shut the F up!
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