5 Gists You Ain't Know About Sarah Palin

The Insider spoke to Palin's closest friends and found out, uncovering these five (more) things you may not know about her:

• She's frugal. "Sarah gave me a thank-you card after I helped her with her lieutenant-governor race," said her friend, Kristen Cole, who has known the Alaska governor since childhood. "She liked the card so much that she didn't sign it so I could give it to someone else."
  
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  She's a techie. Palin prefers texting to phone calls.


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  She's a rock fan. She named her son Trig Paxton Van Palin because it sounds like the band Van Halen. Says friend Judy Patrick, a former city council member who has known Palin for 12 years, "How cool was that to have a kid named Van Palin?"
  
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  She's adaptable. Palin used to wear Mary Kay lipstick, but she now prefers MAC.


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  She's a traditionalist. Palin is against waxing. Cole recalls: "I remember that one of her girls wanted to get her legs waxed, and Sarah said, 'Are you kidding me? What's wrong with a razor?' "

Sarah Palin’s daughter, Bristol, A Boozehead?

It is remains to be seen how the deeds of a “wild child” would affect the VP candidacy of her mother. There has been political rhetoric of “keeping the kids out” of political jabs. So who is to blame when a republican presumptive U.S. vice president Sarah Palin’s daughter, Bristol, gone wide boozing like this? So much for the VP mom to accused bloggers and the media for pointing out her family flaw.