Bristol, CT Inspired Sarah Palin’s Naming of Bristol. Or, did it?

10 Comments so far

1. Andy on February 6, 2009 7:06 pm

   -I too have been inspired by things that I am interested in and have used the name to draw importance to it or recognition for others to find inspiration in it as well.
   For Sara Palin to want to remember the town of her once dream job by naming her daughter Bristol is completely normal and good. Nothing fishy going on here…
   The other factor in the naming of her daughter is that they have a Bay in AK with that very same name -BRISTOL-. To top it off, they have even traveled to Bristol Bay. Again perfectly normal and good.
   I named my roofing business GALAXY ROOFING because I was and still am inspired by Galaxies. Not just the one that our own solar system is located in ether. There is more than one, you know. It is cool to use an existing name because it brings an instant connection with those whom have experience with it.

   Regards,
   Andy

   PS.
   SARAH ROCKS!!!

2. palmerite on February 6, 2009 11:06 pm

   Palin named her daughter after Bristol Bay where her husband has a fishing business. She is not the only girl in Alaska named after Bristol Bay. I know of at two more.

   Nothing fishy about it except that Bristol Bay is home to the largest salmon fishery in the world.

   She is not named for Bristol Ct.

3. Maelin on February 7, 2009 12:45 am

   Precisely why Sarah Palin named her daughter Bristol because it has inspired in many ways! There’s something fishy going on in this article.

4. DEO on February 7, 2009 1:04 am

   That´s Palin. If she says 2 things in a row, there is a contradiction.
   Nothing fishy about it except she just told ESQUIRE she named her daughter for city of BRISTOL, CONNECTICUT. In Aug. 2007, Palin told the THE NEW YORK DAILY NEWS that Bristol was named for Bristol Bay, Alaska where the whole family of liars goes fishing. There´s nothing fishy!
   Sarah Palin-Tonya Palin 2012!

5. Andy on February 7, 2009 11:37 am

   So lets pick on the ESQUIRE and THE NEW YORK DAILY NEWS for not asking any follow up questions. Like “could there possible be any another reason to name you daughter that?” Sarah is not a liar and you should apologize for being clinical.

   Let all be nice.

   Regards,
   Andy

6. Andy on February 7, 2009 12:27 pm

   So lets pick on the ESQUIRE and THE NEW YORK DAILY NEWS for not asking any follow up questions. Like “could there possibly be any another reason to name you daughter that?” Sarah is not a liar and you should apologize for being cynical.

   Let all be nice.

   Regards,
   Andy

7. Syd Diggers on February 7, 2009 8:20 pm

   I love the Simpsons, so I am going to name my first born son Springfield.

   She didn’t know that she would have to move to Bristol, Connecticut to work for a company that is located there?

   Is this woman aware that if she became Vice-President that she would have had to work in Washington?

8. Glen on February 8, 2009 10:25 am

   Maybe those of you who are so quick to claim Palin is lying may want to read the Esquire interview. In it she says her first daughter’s name came from three things. She once worked at place called the Bristol Inn, her husband comes from Bristol Bay, and in high school her dream job was being a sports reporter for ESPN, located in Bristol CT.

   Why is it that some people lose all sense of rationality when it comes to falsely accusing Sarah Palin of some some kind of horrific misdeed?

9. DEO on February 9, 2009 6:56 am

   How about THIS Sarah? WHY dont you just LEAVE YOUR KIDS out of it??????
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   AND GLENN
   Sarah´s explanation of ANYTHING is ALWAYS 3 things……

10. Joan Kinkade on February 9, 2009 11:23 pm

    Glen -

    Thanks for responsible reporting. You apparently do not work for Zillow.

    I named my first daughter Eden. Do you have any idea how many places in America are named Eden? Wanna guess where I came from?

    Ever heard of a city named Destruction?

    I don’t see how Sarah Palin’s naming her daughter Bristol is any more worthy of comments, pro or con, than Hillarity Clinton’s naming her daughter Chelsea, after a place she didn’t live either — or a song; what’s any of it got to do with futures in wheat or the price of a cocktail table or sniper fire for that matter, as to “lies” and who keeps laughing all the way to the bank?