I just found out an old friend is a Palin supporter

[liberalpragmatist]

:shudders:

What's shocking is that this friend of mine - this woman - is extremely smart. Although we haven't talked in a few years, I have known her for years. She is extremely intelligent - graduated at the top of our class in my high school, received a full scholarship to a top university, and an incredible writer.

She always has been conservative; she's a deeply religious Catholic and very anti-choice. But she was also fairly idiosyncratic in her views - anti-death penalty, strongly pro-Palestinian, and a self-described "Christian Socialist" who favored single-payer universal health care.

Yet for some odd reason, she LOVES Sarah Palin. I'm floored. I cannot believe someone as bright as her would embrace Sarah Palin! It's completely mind-boggling.

Anybody else have any comparable situations?