Palin's Short, Strange V.P. Journey Was Launched From Seattle Docks

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The New Yorker is reporting Alaska Governor Sarah Palin began actively campaigning for the vice-presidential gig almost immediately after she took the governor's office in early 2007. A key component to her vice-presidential strategy was to schmooze high-falutin' conservatives who were passengers on two Seattle-based Holland America cruise ships in the summer and fall of that year.

Palin...learned that a number of prominent conservative pundits would soon be passing through Juneau, on cruises sponsored by right-leaning political magazines. She invited these insiders to the governor’s mansion, and even led some of them on a helicopter tour.

The list of Palin's dramamine-doped winked-at woo-bait who passed through Seattle included former Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork, former UN ambassador John Bolton, political consultant Dick Morris, Fox talking-head Fred Barnes, The Weekly Standard editor William Kristol, and Washington Post columnist Michael Gerson, who soon after described Palin as "a mix between Annie Oakley and Joan of Arc".

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