SURPRISED

For six seasons of Northern Exposure, I saw Janine Turner perform as leftist Liberal Democrat, firewood chopping, Liberal radical feminist, opposite gender love interest killing, real estate business owning,  two engine airplane owning, airplane fixing, airplane flying pilot Mary Margaret  O'Connell.  I saw her try and fail to get a wedding ring from a golf playing, constantly complaining and constantly uncomfortable about everything Jewish born Doctor Joel Fleischman (Who has a robotic talking female weight impaired Native American Indian sidekick and ended up joining his female sidekick's Native American Indian tribe) and end up getting a wedding ring from a Winnebago living, surrealism artist, philosophy driven, prison ex-convict radio disk jockey who became a clergyman after answering an ad in Rolling Stone Magazine for a price and having an African-American lawyer half brother named Bernard loner named Chris Stevens.    And then there was that romance between Maggie O'Connell and a balding environmentalist who's allergic to everything and living in a germ free bubble who ended up dumping her for a stint living on a Greenpeace boat blocking oil company rigs named Mike Monroe.  Oh yeah, There was Rick Pederson (Who looked like David Bradford from Eight is Enough) who looked and acted like the sort of opposite gender love interest that the actual Janine Turner would go out with before Maggie O'Connell had enough and killed him by having him fused to a falling space satellite so much so that poor Rick Pederson had to buried space satellite fusing and all. 
And after all that, I was surprised as the Gentle Reader that Janine Turner not only turned out to be a tea party conservative, but she actually thought that Republican Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney was a good idea.  How the heck a conservative fanatic like Janine Turner could portray Mary Margaret O'Connell so convincingly is something that astonishes me because her actual political beliefs are so far away from those of Maggie O'Connell.  Well, I guess as the saying goes, you learn something new everyday. Still, I won't let that ruin my enjoying of Northern Exposure episodes.  Then again, I should've known that Janine Turner would end up joining the so called Tea Party movement because Northern Exposure was set in Alaska and that's where Sarah Palin came from.