I'm sorry, but this needs to be discussed openly and at length
Daily Kos lays down a pretty compelling argument that Sarah Palin’s covering up the fact that her 16 year old daughter, not her, gave birth four months ago to her most recent child. And to those who may question whether or not this is something that she should be called out on because it’s a “personal matter,” get your heads out of your asses! Lying repeatedly to the public she’s been elected to serve and then going to elaborate steps to conceal her daughter’s pregnancy, whether doing so was inspired by a desire to protect her daughter, or to spare herself a politically harmful public family embarrassment, says A LOT about her character. What the hell else would she be willing to lie about and cover up to save herself embarrassment from? And as for the argument that families have done this sort of thing in the past, those times were not in the 21st century in the United States of America, those were in much less progressive times, times when an unwed pregnancy could lead a young girl to be ostracized from society or even physically harmed in some cases. And their mother’s were not vying to become the backup to the world’s most powerful person.
I’m sorry, but if this turns out to be true, and I sincerely hope that it isn’t, then this whole thing is, to me, borderline psychotic. It’s psychotic enough that I wouldn’t feel comfortable electing Sarah Palin to the local school board, much less to be vice-president to a 72 year-old man with a history of health problems.
There’s part of me, the real cynic in me, that deep down wonders if this isn’t all some elaborate scheme cooked up by Karl Rove. You know, pluck a nice, sweet, somewhat competent mom-politician, but one with glaring flaws, and add her to the ticket knowing full well that the Democrats and the press are going to launch into a feeding frenzy over her numerous issues. Then, after she has to be removed from the ticket in disgrace, the Republicans can play the “Obama hates women” card to try to pull in more sympathy votes from Hillary’s death-cult of angry vaginal stooges.
Yeah, I’m that fucking jaded. But don’t put it past them for a second.
