About Sarah Palin, presumptive GOP veep nominee
August 29, 2008 at 11:41 am by Wayne GarciaAs we await the official announcement that John McCain has picked pro-life, pro-gun, former sports reporter, former commercial fisherman, tax-cutting Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, 
here are a few facts about her:
- Earlier this year, she had good things to say about Barack Obama’s energy plan.
- Evangelicals are saluting her selection.
- She did inhale.
- She was featured in Vogue in February.
- She was the subject of a Draft Palin for VEEP website.
- She was dubbed the GOP’s fastest-rising star by The Weekly Standard.
- She vetoed 13 percent of the state budget to hold the line on the size of government.
- She was Miss Wasilla.
- She beat an unpopular incumbent governor to win the office two years ago.
- Bill Kristol predicted in June that Palin would be the veep.
- Palin’s oldest daughter is named
KristolBristol. (The same name of the bay she and her husband fished.)
