Sarah Palin–I really don’t get her. No matter how many different angles I view her from, I just don’t get her. And just when I think that she will not go any further in politics, and I’m starting to relax just a little bit, along comes the next installment on her move toward the national stage, again.
From the earliest days of her campaign for the vice presidency, she addressed the rumors that Trigg Palin was not Bristol’s baby, and we were to conclude from her press release, via a spokesperson, that Trigg was her baby. That seems to be the normal modus operandi for Sarah Palin-you don’t come out with the facts straight on; you kind of work around them. You state some things and then let people assume something from what you said. It is just odd to me when people do not address issues directly, with facts that can be substantiated, and put a questionable issue to rest. There must be a reason for not doing that–for letting rumors go on and on, all the while whining about being the victim of “gotcha” journalism and those darned internet bloggers. To that I say, just present proof–end of story, unless…
You want to be in the press, constantly, front and center, so keep controversies going. If proof was presented and the story ended, you might miss some news coverage. So, aside from never having presented any proof of who the mother of Trigg is, where is any evidence that Tripp exists? Do you realize there hasn’t been any? No pictures of the Governor’s new grandson? According to the source that broke the news of the baby’s birth, People Magazine, the Palin’s first grandchild is now over a month old, and not a picture to be found anywhere—nowhere. Not one viewing in public of baby and parents, or grandparents? Really, unless the baby is sick, how is a baby lost in a small town for a month? And the governor’s first grandchild? That really moves from the hard to believe into the realm of not being logical. Where is this child? Is there a child? We know that SP finally broke her “no comment, it’s private family business” and told us there was.
The moral of this story, as with so many other things with SP, we have her word for something–no proof, nothing anyone is able to verify, just her word. When we let a potential Presidential candidate (God forbid) use her word only as proof of something, we put that person out of the normal and in a class where feelings of being above the law can be cultivated. That’s a dangerous condition for a person in a leadership role. It didn’t work well for Blagojevich, and it shouldn’t work well for anyone else, either.
Is the baby story evidence of someone who feels above the law? Not necessarily, unless there have been lies that would go beyond ethics and into the realm of insurance fraud. Lying to the American people during a campaign isn’t a positive attribute either, especially if the lie involved parading your unwed teenage daughter as pregnant and almost using a Down’s Syndrome baby around as a campaign prop to help you garner votes from people with special needs. Even if Trigg is Bristol’s, having a grandson with special needs would have been acceptable as a tie-in to other parents, so that wouldn’t be the reason for a deception.
I agree with another blogger who queried “Why can’t anything with the Palins just be straigt forward?” Why can’t a birth certificate be produced, or even pictures? Why can’t any doctor, nurse, or other patient at the hospital simply supply stories to verify anything the Palins say about the birth of these babies?
