I don't know if this story has surface elsewhere, but it's another indicator of what the McCain campaign would have discovered upon even the most cursory background check.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eric-schmeltzer/palin-almost-recalled-as_b_122769.html

It's what the McCain team knew about this woman before agreeing, for its own political purposes, to put her with reach of controlling the most powerful military in human history.

Yes, this is the real issue.

And since Holtz-Eakin is savvy enough to know this, AND, savvy enough to know that the best way to put this whole little issue to rest is to say "Of course we knew about this very private family issue before we offered the position to Governor Palin!" we can conclude that they didn't know until Palin said yes.

O Greggy - you scamp you! You're just trying to inflame my crush on you - I can tell.

hee hee hee!

I have heard/seen speculation that Palin will drop out. But I think the McCain camp is in a bind now. I mean- if she is bringing in money and enthusiasm- even if it's from people who were never going to vote Obama (but they might have stayed home) can he really afford to let her go if doing so A) emphasizes he made a terrible choice (ie bad judgment) and B) pisses off the right wing?

Any thoughts?

What Rovish issue will McCain's campaign now start trumpeting to distract the public? I suggest:

GOD HATES GAY POLAR BEARS AND WANTS THEM TO DIE FOR OIL.

The Stepford wives just appeared. They're now doing the benediction and adjourning. That was quick.

paging idiotic

I almost at a point where I am starting to feel bad for McCantDoRight.

The conspiracy theory buff in me, made me go back to HRC's speech when she mentioned that in BO's first decision, he had the judgement to pick Joe.lol
Like folks knew she was going to be the pick for a while. who knows.

perhaps I have been in front of this laptop for too long.

The Elephant In The Room:

If McCain did not know about Sarah Palin's daugher being pregnant, when he offered the VP slot to Sarah Palin, think a moment, think about it; do you realize what that would actually reveal.

OK. Time is up.

What it actually reveals is that Sarah Palin hid that fact from John McCain. In other words, Sarah Palin hid that very important piece of information from John McCain in order to make sure that he picked her.

Boil it down folks;

Keep asking: What did John McCain know, and when did he know it.

When did Sarah Palin tell him about her daughter's condition.

It is a catch22 for McCain. If he was told and still picked her, then he is exposed as a complete incompetent, who lacks the judgment to lead the nation.

If he did not know, then Sarah Palin is coniving, deceiving, truth withholding upstart, who can not be trusted.

Keep on sing the words of the Ballad Of Catch22 McCain.

I'm starting to get dizzy...am I really reading this correctly? Granted, I've written my share, but it's too much to believe.

Will the MSM see it? I guess we'll know tomorrow. The blogs are not likely to let up.

(rub eyes)

Seriously, I think McCain's credability is now damaged beyond any repair, Palin stays or nae. And in a razor-thin race, this cannot be recovered.

I'm just having trouble BELIEVING it could possibly be true.

Wide open now swings the door for issues and governing, which appears to be what Obama wants, may he lay low for another 5-7 days or so, unless attacked directly...never get between a mother and her pregnant daughter....

Here's the part I don't get: Why isn't the girl already married?


NOBODY has a problem with a 17 yo girl that is pregnant and married. The scandel is all about the fact that she is not married. They say the father is willing to marry her, so what is the holdup?


Why would they wait until after the child is born to get married? Someone suggested that they may be waiting until after the baby is born so they use mom and dad's health care insurance. That seems like a legit political issue to me: Governer's daughter forced to have illegitimate child because of our insane health care system.


Does anyone happen to know when they intend to marry and what is causing the delay?

I must agree with an earlier poster. I have always been a working mother (with the exception of six months maternity leave). It wasn't easy to balance but it turned out okay. However, there were times in the twenty years when our kids needed us that both my husband and I put work mostly on the back burner. McCain can pick whomever he choses, but I question Palin's judgement in accepting. A four month old infant with lots of special needs and then one's 17 year old announces she is pregnant? It's time to cool it at work and tend to your family. She can do whatever she wants but this is not the choice of someone who cherishes family above all else.

I still think she's crazy for accepting the nomination w/o all of her other personal problems...

What kind of mother would enter the national stage knowing that the pregnancy of her 17 year old unwed daughter would be fodder for the web, newspapers and television? What kind of mother is she and what kind of nut is she married to that would go along with this? This poor kid needs an advocate and a therapist.

From:

Head of State

http://headofstate.blogspot.com/2008/09/intrusive-personal-questions-from-palin.html

Monday, September 01, 2008

"Intrusive Personal Questions" from the Palin Vetting Questionnaire

"Mr. McCain’s advisers said repeatedly on Monday that Ms. Palin was 'thoroughly vetted'"- The New York Times

Palin "responded to a 70-question form that included 'intrusive personal questions' a senior campaign aide said today."- The Washington Post

"Intrusive Personal Questions" from the Palin Vetting Questionnaire:

1) Did we forget anything?

2)Why are we choosing you if we discovered all of this?

3) Secession from your own country is

a) Patriotic

b) A qualification to be the potential leader of that country

c) Maverick-y!

d) None of the above

4) Did we forget anything?

5) Moose Burger : Abstinence as Moose Hunting :

a) Brother-in-law

b) 50 state flag

c) Bridge to Nowhere (after it was made impossible)

d) All of the above

6) Three Vice Presidential candidates are moving from three equidistant fixed points towards a podium. One, in his slightly glazed stare and awkwardly quasi-combative speech bears a faint resemblance to Dan Quayle; the next can only assist the ticket as we near closer to Rapture; the third seems to have stumbled out of one of Christopher Buckley's sharper efforts. Which one arrives at the podium first?

7) "Nothing that has come out did not come out in the vet." This sentence actually means:

a) Everything has come out and everything has been vetted

b) Everything that was vetted has come out

c) Everything that has come out was vetted

d) The vet came out and vetted the vets vetter than anything has ever been vetted. Really.

8) You are a right-wing, red-state conservative. During the Clinton Administration, you believed that President Clinton's behavior with Monica Lewinsky disqualified him from the Presidency on moral grounds; you fervently raised the terms "Lincoln Bedroom" and "Johnny Chung" to invoke notions of utter corruption, and regarded the "Travelgate" firings as an abuse of power. In the face of the recent revelations regarding Palin's directorship of Ted Stevens' 527, support of the Bridge to Nowhere, "Troopergate" imbroglio, and illegitimate pregnancy of her 16 year old daughter, you:

a) Blame George Soros

b) Talk about Bill Clinton instead of Palin

c) Hold your hands over your ears and loudly shout "La la la"

d) Try to change the subject

9) "Foreign policy experience" includes:

a) Being near another large nation

b) Seceding from your own country and then taking up residence in the new nation

c) Being close to "Nowhere" in your support for the Bridge to Nowhere, which is different than being "Somewhere"

d) Blame George Soros

10) If you were seeking to choose as your running mate someone who would please Evangelical Conservatives with very traditional values, who would be without taint of corruption or misuse of government power, and someone who, in line with your campaign's own slogan, would put "Country First", after thorough vetting and "intrusive personal questions", you would choose someone who:

a) Supported the Bridge to Nowhere

b) Supported the secession of Alaska from the U.S. (Slogan: "Alaska First!")

c) Was the subject of a state ethics investigation due to allegations that she had tried to have her brother-in-law fired and that she fired the state public safety commissioner due to his unwillingness to fire the brother-in-law

d) Would suffer from allegations that her 16 year old child had become pregnant illegitimately, despite her fervent support for abstinence only sex education

e) None of the above



Cite:

Head of State:

http://headofstate.blogspot.com/2008/09/intrusive-personal-questions-from-palin.html