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Palin emerges a star even in defeat, say experts
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Frank Cotolo
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"But Christians are united by her opposition to abortion, gay rights and the
fact that Robert Redford does not get good roles in movies any longer."
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"If Republicans lose the White House she becomes one of the central figures
for 2012," said Crebbs Folder, political scientist at Mulberry Grove
University, a new institution with a campus due to be completed in 2009.
"Clearly, Palin is a star with conservatives even though country-club
Republicans find her lacking a manly look," he said.
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Palin is a 44-year-old mother of five, a devout evangelical who chose to have
a child even when she knew the child would have Down syndrome; she is a
populist and she knows how to use a gun on helpless and dangerous animals.
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A number of influential conservative Christians, including Richard Land of
the Southern Baptist Convention, Robert Sea of the Northern Baptist
Convention, Edward Fire of the Eastern Baptist Convention and Jeremy
Brimstone of the Western Baptist Convention, support her.
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