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If this is in reference to the questionable maternity of the infant, I am not sure that it really matters to any of the conservative voters he really wants to keep (the ones that don't consider him sufficiently conservative... the ones who would eat up the idea of a mother protecting her daughter by pretending a child is hers rather than having an abortion despite the down syndrome).

I worry that more damage is being done to liberal cause by the huge deal and mudslinging going on in the leftish media.

I think the really big deal to come out of this will be if it turns out to indeed be hers, as taking an eight hour fight from texas to alaska while you're in labor with a low birth weight child is incredibly irresponsible.

I'm a bit worried about any backlash from this story getting covered at all is going to get, though I'm going to guess that the more mainstream sources will stay away from it for that reason. I do feel bad for Bristol in any case.

I think you're right that this won't hurt CC/right -wing voter' view of McCain/Palin, but the huge pile of potential abuse-of-office-related charges already mounting could sway the undecideds.

BTW, thanks for the add. I'm

tyrsalvia's partner; she suggested I would enjoy following you (in case you didn't grok that already). :)

I think you're right that this won't hurt CC/right -wing voter' view of McCain/Palin, but the huge pile of potential abuse-of-office-related charges already mounting could sway the undecideds.

It doesn't have to be abuse of office. A family doctor might do the same such thing for any of her/his patients, this one (speculatively) just happens to be the governor and her daughter. The tax fraud suits seem a bit more feasible.

BTW, thanks for the add. I'm tyrsalvia's partner; she suggested I would enjoy following you (in case you didn't grok that already). :)

I had figured it out, and I remember meeting you at the Fire Arts Fest. :} I haven't been posting much of late... but I may become more content filled when my life gets a routine again.

Do you have a link on the tax fraud assertions? I haven't seen reference to that....

It wasn't a news article, it was a blog post that mentioned claiming the child as dependant without due process (adoption) would be tax fraud. But I suspect that the birth certificate says the child is hers, so it doesn't apply unless the child is positively identified as no hers.

If the rumour is true and Trig Palin (and how cruel to name someone with Down's Syndrome after a complex branch of mathematics) isn't Sarah Palin's child, the tax credit that's she's almost certainly claiming on Trig would possibly be fraudulent.

The cynic in me wonders if they didn't choose her with "hey, they'll jump all over this!" in mind.

Ah, that cyncism would be nice. Alas, I think the "hard core Christian and a blue collar woman" is sufficient... which says too much about the values of the GOP voters.

What the hell do governors and mayors do in Alaska that makes her blue-collar?

She only very recently was a mayor, then governor. Her husband works in the oil fields and was a commercial fisherman.

Oh, so having been blue-collar twelve years ago makes you blue-collar now.

In that case, I've met a lot of people who worked cash registers and were also in the computer industry. After all, they worked tech support in the 90's.

I agree with you on the last point. I've already seen quite a bit of discourse about our complaining about the whole Obama/terrorist/Muslim thing, and now when this comes out it looks a bit silly.