Amused Cynic

Do read this. about “First Dude” Todd Palin….I agree, completely.  (h/t  Anchoress.)

“There’d be swooning if the man were liberal but since he’s married to a conservative now known as the Vice Presidential nominee, he’ll be viewed as an impregnating misogynist ne’er-do-well Neanderthal. Guaranteed.”

A father of five, he’s also a four-time winner of the world’s longest snowmobile race, billed as the most grueling. It’s a sport the 43-year-old lifelong Alaskan is so passionate about that he’s continued to compete even after his wife took office in December 2006.

In this year’s 2,000-mile Tesoro Iron Dog contest, Palin and racing partner Scott Davis were trying to defend their 2007 championship when Palin broke his arm in a crash. It was 400 miles from the finish line, but he refused to quit, coming in fourth, cheered on by the parka-clad governor waving a checkered flag.

“There are racers who throw in the towel pretty quick, without broken arms, with just a head cold,” executive race director Laura Bedard said Friday. “This speaks highly of his character.”

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Todd Palin is a highly aggressive competitor but will stop to assist a rival in trouble, according to Bedard. She said that in last year’s Iron Dog, Palin and Davis helped a racer with broken ribs reach the next checkpoint before heading on to victory.

Davis, a seven-time Iron Dog winner, could not be reached Friday, but a worker at his family’s concrete block manufacturing business in Soldotna said Palin often comes into the office during race preparations. The worker, Vickie Aber, described Todd Palin as a quiet, unassuming family man not in the least intimidated by his wife’s meteoric rise.

He’s not one to boast about his Iron Dog wins, either, Aber said.

I think that the Dems and the MSM have no idea of what they are messing with…..yet.