Oh no, found out tonight that Sarah Palin named her kid after the town I live next to: Bristol, CT

[Jennicut]

Seriously makes me want to puke. I live in Terryville, about one minute down the road from Bristol. She loved ESPN supposedly and that is the headquarters of it. My mother in law lives right near ESPN, its not a bad area, provides some jobs. So glad she never took the sports career seriously and moved here and yet maybe if she had she would not have tortured us for the past year. LOL.

[Aloha Spirit]

1. I will always be grateful to her

for those voters she shamed into voting for Obama/Biden.

[Jennicut]

2. Agreed. Maybe she did us some favors in being such an idiot.

[Xipe Totec]

3. I thought she named it after the liquour that got her banged up

[Jennicut]

6. LOL...it was a big deal today, everyone on CT talk radio was talking about it

we have no lives here. At least we are a blue state and most here are disgusted by the Rethugs.

[Broken_Hero]

4. I always thought she named her kid after

Bristol Bay, Alaska....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bristol_Bay

[Blue_In_AK]

11. She did, Petersond.

She's trying to expand her base by letting people know that SHE knows there's a state called Connecticut that has a town named Bristol.

[proud patriot]

13. that sounds like something she'd do

I just got chills up my spine ...She creeps me out .

[Blue_In_AK]

14. I swear to God, we never heard that Bristol, Connecticut,

connection before. At least, I didn't. Now, maybe she said it to somebody somewhere, but it's always seemed to be common knowledge that Bristol was named after the Bay. It fits with Piper and Willow, being kind of Alaska-y names. Track's a little more sporty, and maybe has something to do with her athleticism, but Bristol, Connecticut? I don't think so. One of these things is not like the other.

I think they pulled the name Trig Paxson Van Palin out of the air -- although, again, also, there's that Alaskan town, Paxson, where the contemptible Todd likes to progress his snowmachine. Too.

So, no. The Bristol, Connecticut, thing is fabricated.

[suston96]

5. Relax. Named after Bristol Bay in Alaska where her husband fishes sockeye salmon......

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bristol_Bay

[Jennicut]

7. Maybe she is too stupid to remember

Palin: Daughter Named After Conn. Town

NEW YORK -- What's in a name? Former Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin said her daughter's comes from Bristol, Conn., home of the sports network ESPN.

Palin tells Esquire magazine that when she was in high school, she wanted to be a sportscaster and was disappointed to learn where ESPN was located.

The Alaska governor said Connecticut was too far away. So instead, she said, she named her daughter Bristol.

Palin said she's still angry with the media over questions about whether her 9-month-old son, Trig, is actually the child of 18-year-old Bristol.

When the McCain campaign announced in September that Bristol was pregnant, it was in part to end rumors about Trig. Bristol's son was born in December.

The new Esquire hits news stands Feb. 16.http://www.wfsb.com/politics/18648939/detail.html#-

[Broken_Hero]

8. Thanks for that, I just assumed

she named her after Bristol Bay...learn something new every day.

[Jennicut]

9. I would not put it past her to make up stories.

[Blue_In_AK]

12. She's lying, Petersond.

She ALWAYS said Bristol was named after the Bay.

[Broken_Hero]

17. I wasn't sure, sure looks like she

enjoys putting her foot in her mouth a lot...makes for good tv I guess...:D

[Blue_In_AK]

10. She just made that up.

I've NEVER heard her say that. Always before, Bristol was named after Bristol Bay. I doubt if Sarah even knows where Bristol, Connecticut, is. It's not "real America."

[DeepBlueC]

15. whew

[Jennicut]

22. Seriously, Sarah name dropping CT towns is like so not cool

ESPN would not have know what to do with her anyways..airhead.

[DeepBlueC]

23. it's cringe-making, the thought of it

I was very happy there in unreal America.

[Phx_Dem]

16. She's such a wannabe. I always wanted to work for Google,

so I named my kid Google. Yeah, I'm a fucking moron too.

I wonder if Bristol named Tripp after a bad acid trip?

[Blue_In_AK]

18. Tripp, who no one has seen.

I'm not given to speculating, but it's odd that no one has reported seeing him. :shrug:

[Phx_Dem]

21. Yeah, what happened to the photo spread?

It's not like a Palin to give up millions for the sake of privacy.

[Robeson]

19. Sarah is very deep. Certainly presidential timber..

[CakeGrrl]

20. Keith Olbermann guessed this right on Countdown just after she was picked as McCain's VP

I guess it's getting more play now that she's confirmed it with the interview.

Then again, he might have already known because she was an ESPN wannabe.

[TexasProgresive]

24. Oh! and here I thought she was named for the "Bristol Stomp"

But then I misrememberated that song as being the Bristol Hop" and thought that's what happened to get Bristol in a family way.

Lyrics to "Bristol Stomp" words and music by Kal Mann and Dave Appell:

CHORUS;
THE KIDS IN BRISTOL ARE AS SHARP AS A
PISTOL,
WHEN THEY DO THE BRISTOL STOMP.
REALLY SOMETHIN' WHEN THE JOINT IS
JUMPIN',
WHEN THEY DO THE BRISTOL STOMP.

WAH OH! THEY STARTED SPINNING,
EVERY FRIDAY NIGHT.
THEY DANCE THE GREATEST, IF THEY
DO IT RIGHT.
BUT IT'S THE LATEST, IT'S A CRAZY
SIGHT TO SEE.

OH-OH, OH-OH-OH, OH-OH-AHHHHHH!
IT STARTED IN BRISTOL, AT A DEEJAY HOP.
THEY HOLLERED AND WHISTLED,NEVER WANT
TO STOP,
THEY PONIED AND TWISTED AS THEY SUNG
THE TUNE.

OH-OH-OH, OH-OH, AH-AH, AHHHHH!
IT'S GOT THAT GROOVY BEAT,
THAT MAKES YOU STOMP YOUR FEET,
IN TIME, GONNA FEEL FINE.
AND ONCE YOU DANCE WITH ME, YOU'LL
FALL IN LOVE YOU SEE,
THE BRISTOL STOMP WILL MAKE YOU MINE,
ALL MINE.
THEY STARTED SPINNING, EVERY FRIDAY
NIGHT.
THEY DANCE THE GREATEST, IF THEY DO
IT RIGHT.
BUT IT'S THE LATEST, IT'S A CRAZY
SIGHT TO SEE.

WOH-OH-OH, OH-OH, OH-AHHHHH!
VMSOLOS THEY STARTED IN BRISTOL, AT A DEE
JAY HOP.
THEY HOLLER AND WHISTLE, NEVER
WANT TO STOP,
THEY PONIED AND TWISTED AS THEY
SANG THE TUNE.
WOH-0H-OH-OH, WAH-AH-AH-AH, WOH-OH-OH...
CONTINUES THIS AND FADES TO FINISH.

[Blue_In_AK]

25. Excellent post at The Mudflats - "What's in a Name? A Little Fish Tale from Sarah Palin"

http://www.themudflats.net/2009/02/08/whats-in-a-name-a-little-fish-tale-from-sarah-palin/

The unusual names of Sarah and Todd Palin’s children are not new to Alaskans. The stories have been circulating for quite some time about the “secret meanings” in the names. Willow for the town north of Wasilla, Piper for the airplane and her middle name “Indie” for the snow machine and the word “Independence”, Track because he was born during track & field season, and Trigg’s middle name “Paxson” for another tiny town in Alaska. And then there’s Bristol. She’s named for Bristol Bay where the Palins fish, and where Todd Palin grew up. Ironically, this is also the area of the collapsed salmon fishery which has financially devastated Western Alaska resulting in residents running out of food and fuel during the long winter….the ones that Sarah Palin has done nothing personally to support. But that’s another story. Nobody ever heard any different about the name Bristol, and no other explanation had ever been offered.

As a matter of fact, the Bristol Bay fishing reference and only the Bristol Bay reference has been mentioned OVER and OVER and OVER and OVER and OVER (OK, I’m getting tired of linking, but you get the idea).

But all of a sudden, for the first time ever, in her February interview with Esquire magazine, we get a different tale. Now Sarah Palin tells us that one of the reasons for the name is because the headquarters for ESPN is located in Bristol, Connecticut, and she dreamed of working for ESPN some day when she was a girl….. Huh? (Alaskans look at each other in amazement as if Sarah Palin would ever name any of her children for something NOT Alaskan…)

The Bristol Press newspaper, located in Bristol, Connecticut talked to ESPN Vice President Mike Soltys to get the story.

Soltys said that after Palin’s selection as John McCain’s running mate last summer, there was speculation that the governor might have named her daughter for the company’s hometown.

But the campaign itself said that the name came from Bristol Bay in Alaska, cutting off the talk of Connecticut.

And the confirmed lack of connection to the town is perfectly fine with the mayor of Bristol, Connecticut, Art Ward.

Mayor Art Ward said that it probably worked out for the best.

“You can’t see Russia from here.”

So why the “fish tale” if you will, about Bristol’s name? I think there’s room for a theory here. Since nobody, I mean nobody in Alaska ever heard of this supposed ESPN connection before three days ago, and since ESPN actually asked the campaign if there was a connection, perhaps planting the seed, I think that we can still connect this with fish. Bear with me.

I think the Governor may be fishing, not for a job with Fox, but perhaps for a job with ESPN. We can only hope that this will be the extent of her career on the national stage.

And when, oh when, will Sarah Palin “just leave her children out of this”, as she has asked us all to do?

[Iggo]

26. Ah, who cares. It's a pretty name.

[Jennicut]

27. True. I kind of like it.

Never thought about naming my kid after a town but what the heck?

[Norrin Radd]

28. It's a good thing she didn't name her "Monkey's Eyebrow."

[PBS Poll-435]

29. I always (being the case with most Republicans...) thought she named her after

They do make Abilify, after all.