To quote myself from up thread:
As for the issue you seem to find most damning, which (I believe) is the Trig-is-Sarah’s-baby rumor, there’s an extraordinarily important point which you keep ignoring: Suppose, for a moment, that the rumor were true. What would that say about Sarah Palin? Something negative? On the contrary, I’d argue that while such a factoid (Sarah Palin’s son is actually her grandson!) is obviously weird and titillating, it would actually be an incredibly noble act, one that would involve huge amounts of sacrifice on her part to better the lives of both her daughter and her grandson. In fact, the most salacious part of the whole thing would be the fact that it would involve her teenage daughter getting pregnant. Which, ironically, actually happened anyhow.
Just yesterday I was talking with my dentist about the sorry state of the GOP, how frustrating that Republicans like Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins have become marginalized by the extremists. We both are native New Englanders, growing up when Republicans like Eliot Richardson and Edward Brooke were the face of the GOP for us. We were agreed in believing that such stalwarts of that era would be horrified at the current state of their party, and that this is bad for the body politic.
Sadly , my sister whom I dearly love seems to have become even more conservative/fundamentalist in the last year. When I was in Maine last week she was telling me about writing to Olympia Snow to complain that she didn’t seem to have real republican representation because Snow is too moderate. Hey! At least she’s getting involved and writing letters.
I was stunned by a video of a GOP rep holding a town hall and several people said they were scared of Obama because he’s a socialist. He tried to reason with them and asked “who said Obama was a socialist?” they responded “Glen Beck , just watch Glen Beck” When he suggested people turn off Glen Beck and stop watching him he was booed by the crowd. really? Glen Beck? {Sigh}
If, I REPEAT IF, Palin had adopted her daughter’s baby, what’s noble about it? The family appears to have both the financial and emotional resources to support both children while life goes on. The younger Palin does not appear to have been kicked out of high school, as would have happened in the glorious days.
My family has had exactly this occurence; my parents adopted a baby born to one of my sisters. They wanted another baby; my sister didn’t want any baby. Nothing noble about it, just happiness for all parties.
It’s noble because it protected her daughter from the shame of being known for having a child out of wedlock. That used to be thought of as shameful. Now it’s Maury Povich’s bread and butter.
Assuming responsibility for the child woud be “noble”, lying about who’s child it is would be a lie and for a public figure scandalous.
Plus, what Frank said.
I was stunned this week to hear my brother–who is a very intelligent man and who USED to be a stalwart of reasoned thinking–go off on a rant that I know was strongly influenced, if not word-for-word written by Rush Limbaugh. There just wasn’t anything that I could say to him in response–he’s so totally committed to the idea that one day in the near future we will see Christians jailed for their beliefs and socialized medicine run amok, that there just wasn’t anything close to common ground for us to talk about. It was the saddest conversation I’ve ever had with him.
I guess I’m just thinking about this in a different way from you. A lie of that sort obviously has the potential to be scandalous, which makes it even more noble, in that it would involve great risk to the career and public image, and thus the sacrifice being made to protect the daughter and grandson would be even greater.
But it’s obviously a total tangent at this point, since we all agree it did not, in fact, happen.
I have this image of berserk doctors rampaging through the streets. “You! Yes, you! Turn your head and cough!”
This old story gave me a chuckle:
05 Aug 2009 08:47 pm
Dining At Michael’s
Sarah Palin, tribune of the plebs, dines with the media elite. On a previous occasion when she was in NYC, she was at Tao’s for an intimate dinner with “real Americans”: Vera Wang, Cindy Adams, Martha Stewart and Queen Noor. Just remember her first ever quote in the Anchorage Daily News, way back when she held no office at all:
Sarah Palin, a commercial fisherman from Wasilla, told her husband on Tuesday she was driving to Anchorage to shop at Costco. Instead, she headed straight for Ivana. And there, at J.C. Penney’s cosmetic department, was Ivana, the former Mrs. Donald Trump, sitting at a table next to a photograph of herself. She wore a light-colored pantsuit and pink fingernail polish. Her blonde hair was coiffed in a bouffant French twist.
‘‘We want to see Ivana,’’ said Palin, who admittedly smells like salmon for a large part of the summer, ‘‘because we are so desperate in Alaska for any semblance of glamour and culture.’’
Don’t worry, Sarah. You’ve left those salmon behind now and are richer than almost all of us.
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I wonder if you could fit a bayonet on the end of an otoscope.
Why so much attention paid to the Trig rumor? Someone dug it out of his ass and it had no evidence and fizzled rapidly. Repubs keep bringing it up as if it is proof of something. It would have totally disappeared if they left it alone. I know nobody who really believed it, not righties, not lefties.
Wouldn’t it be hilarious if Trig ended up really being Bristol’s son and Tripp ended up really being Sarah’s son?