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...Palin-Scully pairing is anything but a guaranteed fit, though. Palin is known as an avid hunter; Scully is best known for his vigorous defense of animal rights. A vegetarian who is regularly critical of the NRA and much of the hunting community, he is a passionate advocate for doing away with the more brutal versions of blood-sport, including aerial hunting, which Palin supports...
...betrayal. Stambaugh, the police chief and a member of Palin's step-aerobics class, filed a lawsuit for wrongful termination, alleging that Palin terminated him in part at the behest of the National Rifle Association, because he had opposed a concealed-gun law that the NRA supported. He eventually lost the suit. The animosity spawned some talk of a recall attempt, but eventually Palin's opponents in the city council opted for a more conciliatory route...
...Across the row from the State Fair livestock pavilion - with its champion pigs, giant cabbage and 900-lb. pumpkins - Eddie Grasser mans an NRA booth. Palin is a lifetime NRA member - a demographic that has not been particularly high on John McCain - and Grasser couldn't be more excited about the governor he calls Sarah. Like Grasser, everyone here seems to be on a first name basis with their politicians. "It's just one of those things about Alaska politics," says Grasser. So Governor Palin is Sarah, the irascible (and currently indicted) Senator Stevens is Uncle Ted, and even Representative...
...child of the middle class with a friendly face and big hair, she is so affable that she once won Miss Congeniality in a beauty pageant. Her son is about to deploy to Iraq. She's an ice fisherman, a moose hunter, a small business owner and a lifetime NRA member. And she shelved her state's pork-laden Bridge to Nowhere that McCain has ridiculed on the trail...
Barr now alternates between expressing contrition for his past and highlighting his post-9/11 record of fighting against federal rollbacks of civil liberties. He works with both the ACLU and the NRA and quotes Ayn Rand fluently. His platform these days is a soft libertarian diet of lower taxes, more privacy and school choice...