Sarah Palin Profile - Biography of Sarah Palin

       Sarah Palin Profile - Biography of Sarah Palin


       By Linda Lowen, 

Personal Views :


Sarah Palin is pro-life, pro-marriage, pro-gun and supports oil drilling both offshore and in ANWR. She has publicly questioned whether global warming is man-made.
Her husband, Todd Palin, is an Alaska native whose grandmother was raised in a traditional Yup'ik Eskimo house. Employed for two decades in the oil industry, Todd is a production operator, a member of the United Steelworkers, a commercial fisherman, and a four-time winner of the Iron Dog snowmachine race (along the famous Iditarod Trail.) His wife has been known to call him "first dude."


Sarah's political views are consistent with her conservative Christian beliefs. The mother of four when she became governor in 2006, in December 2007 she was pregnant with her fifth child when prenatal testing revealed Down syndrome.


A member of Feminists for Life, Sarah did not consider abortion. She gave birth to Trig Paxson Van Palin on April 18, 2008; Trig is Norse and means "true" and "brave victory," and Paxson is a region in Alaska the couple favors. (Van Palin is a nod to the rock group Van Halen.)


The other Palin children have equally unique names. Son Track (18) is in the Army and will deploy to Iraq. Daughters, Bristol (17), Willow (13) and Piper (7) are in public schools.


The Anchorage Daily News has called Sarah Palin "the Joan of Arc of Alaska politics" and " one of the most popular local politicians in America."

 Anchorage radio host Dan Fagan says, "She's a hockey mom, she lives on a lake, she ice fishes, she snowmobiles, she hunts...she has a float plane," and in his opinion, "she's as Alaskan as you can get."


Updated August 30, 2008


Sources:


Almanac: Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R), NationalJournal.com, retrieved 30 August 2008.
Barnes, Fred. "The Most Popular Governor." The Weekly Standard, 16 July 2007.
Geneaology of Sarah Heath Palin, Ancestry.com, retrieved 30 August 2008.
Governor Palin's Biography, State of Alaska website, retrieved 30 August 2008.
Kizzia, Tom. "Wasilla mayor was groomed from an early political age." Anchorage Daily News, 23 October 2006.
Kizzia, Tom. "Gov. Sarah Palin: A biography." Anchorage Daily News, 29 August 2008.
Malcolm, Andrew. "John McCain picks Alaska's Gov. Sarah Palin as his VP." Los Angeles Times Blogs, 29 August 2008.
Quinn, Steve. "Alaska governor balances newborn's needs, official duties." USA Today, 10 May 2008. 
Quinn, Steve and Calvin Woodward. "McCain's veep choice is historic and hardly known." Rockford Register Star, 30 August 2008.


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