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12 unusual facts about Sarah Palin


Asheville Zombie Walk

During the 2008 presidential campaign between Barack Obama and John McCain, vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin made a campaign appearance in Asheville on World Zombie Day.

Cabbage Patch Kids

Sarah Palin was depicted in a trademark suit and skirt with high heeled pumps.

Dances with Smurfs

It also included references to the Tea Party protests, radio personality Casey Kasem, and former-vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin.

ESTP

According to Keirsey, based on observations of behavior, notable Promoters might include John F. Kennedy, Teddy Roosevelt, Madonna, Sarah Palin and Donald Trump.

Gregory Charles Royal

Gregory Charles Royal (born October 10, 1961 in Greensboro, North Carolina) is an American musician, composer, author, and a judge on America's Hot Musician, as well as a plaintiff in a 2009 lawsuit against Alaska Governor Sarah Palin.

John Woodenlegs

A quote from Woodenlegs appears in Going Rogue by Sarah Palin, though she mistakenly attributes it to basketball coach John Wooden.

Lake Lucille

According to David Talbot, founder of Salon, Lake Lucille was listed as "impaired" in 1994 by the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation and in 2008 still carried the same descriptive label after twelve years of "Wasilla's frenzied development" under Mayor Sarah Palin (Oct 1996 - Oct 2002) and her successor as mayor, Dianne Keller (Oct 2002 - Oct 2008).

The private home of former Governor Sarah Palin overlooks Lake Lucille, and she gave her July 2009 resignation speech at its bank.

Maria Baltazzi

2010 Sarah Palin's Alaska; TLC (Executive Producer/Development Executive)

Some of her credits include working as one of the original four producers on CBS's Emmy award winning show, Survivor and Executive Producer on TLC's record breaking Sarah Palin's Alaska, which debuted at 5 million viewers.

Night of the Living Dead 3D: Re-Animation

The film also features a Sarah Palin spoof in the character of 'Sister Sara' (who works for a news outlet called 'Fixed News' which is apparently a spoof of 'Fox News') and makes references to the original 1968 Night of the Living Dead film with comments such as "They're Romero zombies" and "Pittsburgh is the zombie capital."

The Free Right

During the American election in 2008, the faction supported the Republican ticket of John McCain and Sarah Palin, while most French political elites supported Barack Obama.


Alaska gubernatorial election, 2006

Incumbent Frank Murkowski (R), first elected governor in 2002, ran for reelection but was defeated in a landslide in the Republican primary by former Wasilla mayor Sarah Palin on August 22, 2006.

Corbin Fisher

On November 19, 2009, Corbin Fisher offered a studio deal to Levi Johnston, father with Bristol Palin of Republican party politician Sarah Palin's grandchild.

Daniel Nardicio

His first idea was to convince Levi Johnston, the former fiancé of Bristol Palin (Sarah Palin’s daughter), and father of Bristol's child, into posing, which resulted in such a media frenzy that the magazine was brought back into print and is now still in print and profitable today.

Deb Fischer

Shortly before the election, she was endorsed by Nebraska U.S. Representative Jeff Fortenberry and by 2008 Vice-Presidential candidate Sarah Palin, who recorded robocalls endorsing her; and a super PAC financed by former Omaha businessman Joe Ricketts paid for $250,000 worth of television advertising promoting Fischer and opposing Bruning.

Ed O'Callaghan

O'Callaghan co-leads what the Anchorage Daily News calls "a cadre of high-powered operatives" described by John McCain's campaign as a "truth squad" to field questions about and push back on attacks against vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin.

Game Change

The film received numerous award nominations, and won four Emmy Awards, including the award for Outstanding Actress in a Miniseries for Julianne Moore, who portrayed Sarah Palin.

H8R

Had the series not been canceled, the producers had hoped to book Sarah Palin, Joan Rivers, Mel Gibson and Lady Gaga for future episodes.

Jeff Schweitzer

His book, Vote To Save The Planet, was a collection of short articles intended to inform voters about the benefits of electing Barack Obama/Joe Biden and the disadvantages of electing John McCain/Sarah Palin in the 2008 Presidential Election.

Malcom Glenn

In late October, he moderated a panel at Harvard about Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin featuring, among others, GOP media consultant and CNN contributor Alex Castellanos.

Martin Buser

Buser and his Happy Trails Kennels were featured on an episode (premiering April 12, 2009) of the Discovery Channel's Dirty Jobs program as well as on the sixth episode of Sarah Palin's Alaska.

Matt Latimer

The book cites Latimer's interpretations of Bush's remarks and comments made to his staff about political figures such as Nancy Pelosi, Hillary Clinton, John McCain, Barack Obama, Joe Biden and Sarah Palin.

Mike Kernell

In October 2008, Kernell's son David was indicted by a Tennessee grand jury in connection with the unauthorized access of Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin's Yahoo! Mail account.

Morgan Christen

Christen previously served on the Alaska Supreme Court having been appointed on March 4, 2009 by Governor Sarah Palin to replace outgoing justice Warren Matthews.

Ron Silver

In one of his last televised interviews, he told Sky News that Senator John McCain's choice of Sarah Palin as his Vice-Presidential candidate in the 2008 Presidential Election had been a "deal breaker" for him.

Say It Ain't So, Joe

Say It Ain't So, Joe is a chamber opera in two acts by Curtis K. Hughes inspired by text drawn from the public record of the 2008 United States vice-presidential debate where vice presidential candidate Joe Biden is addressed by Sarah Palin in a similar manner as the famous quote referring to Shoeless Joe Jackson.

Schaeffer Cox

Cox was a supporter of Sarah Palin, but harshly criticized her support for Real ID in 2008, saying "If Sarah Palin loses who she is, then I won't support her".

Texas Patriots PAC

The Texas Patriots PAC has hosted many Tea Party rallies in the Houston area, which have featured such guests as Andrew Breitbart, Ted Cruz, Sarah Palin, Jim DeMint, Laura Ingraham, Herman Cain, Michael Berry, Greg Abbott, Dan Patrick, and Jim "Mattress Mack" McIngvale.

Voting gender gap

Sarah Palin ran that same year as the Vice-Presidential candidate with John McCain on the Republican ticket.

Wasilla High School

The school gained notoriety in 2008 following former pupil, Governor Sarah Palin's nomination as the Republican vice-presidential running mate to John McCain in the 2008 United States presidential election.