Fri Sep 9, 2022 – 3:34 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) – No political figure in modern American history is more synonymous with his or her home state than Sarah Palin is with Alaska.
Having risen from mayor of the small town of Wasilla to the governorship of the Last Frontier, Palin was plucked from relative obscurity to run with the late U.S. Senator John McCain as Republicans’ vice presidential nominee in 2008. With her folksy “hockey mom” persona and notorious anti-establishment credentials, Palin easily outshined her running mate and became the most conservative name on to appear on a GOP ticket since Jack Kemp in 1996, earning her adoration from those on the right who’d been weary of McCain and plenty of blowback from liberals foaming at the mouth to win back the White House.
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Following McCain-Palin’s loss to Obama-Biden, she resigned her post as governor and spent the ensuing years making a name herself independently, as a driving force behind the Tea Party movement, author of the bestselling autobiography Going Rogue, and kingmaker in competitive Republican primaries throughout the country during the 2010 midterms (had it not been
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