Sarah Palin’s Unlikely Supporter

ABC News' The Note ^ | June 28, 2011 | Sheila Marikar

[2ndDivisionVet]

There’s the stereotype of the Sarah Palin supporter, and then there’s Sonnie Johnson.

The 30-year-old African-American mother and wife is featured in “The Undefeated” as one of the many people Palin captivated when John McCain thrust her onto the national stage as his vice presidential running mate in 2008. In Pella, Iowa today for the premiere of the film, Johnson said she latched on to Palin when the former Alaska governor took the stage at the Republican National Convention.

“We were watching it on TV and my daughter was like, ‘A girl can be president?,’” Johnson recalled. “And I said, ‘Yes, baby, girls can do anything.’ That was the moment -- I saw that look in my daughter’s eye, that anything in possible. The next week, I went to my very first political event, and that was to see Sarah Palin. John McCain and Sarah Palin.”

Johnson has become increasingly involved in the tea party since then, speaking at tea party events around her native Virginia. She’ll give the keynote address at an event held by the Charlottesville, VA. tea party on the Fourth of July with her young daughter by her side.

“She’ll be on stage with me,” Johnson said. “I want to get her involved, little by little. I like to say that for the black community, nothing will change until we learn to love our children more than we love the Democratic party.”

[penelopesire]

Thank you for your kind words. She is an outstanding woman. My dad was so fearful during that time that he bought her a pistol and then taught all of us how to use it. He was afraid of white klan democrats. There wasn’t a republican party in Ms. back then and my mom and he were instrumental in starting the republican party in Mississippi back in the day. Those were heady times to say the least.

[reasonisfaith]

Thankfully, in the end neither common sense nor moral sense have any causal relationship, positive or negative, with melanin levels.

But you will not find a black conservative who is not also courageous by nature.

[SunkenCiv]

The 30-year-old African-American mother and wife is featured in "The Undefeated" ... "We were watching it on TV and my daughter was like, 'A girl can be president?,' ... And I said, 'Yes, baby, girls can do anything.' That was the moment -- I saw that look in my daughter's eye, that anything in possible. The next week, I went to my very first political event, and that was to see Sarah Palin. John McCain and Sarah Palin... I like to say that for the black community, nothing will change until we learn to love our children more than we love the Democratic party."

Thanks 2ndDivisionVet. And wow.