Think about this
You are a 44 year old woman who is a rising star in the party. You are governor of the largest state that happens to have vast energy reserves. You have 5 children, including an infant with Down's Syndrome. You proclaim you are a reformer, but you are operating in some of the ugliest Republican machinery in the country. No one knows who you are.
Karl Rove (or some sychophant) calls you one evening
SP: Hello
KR: Sarah, this Karl Rove, you know - turd blossom. I got George Bush elected.
SP: Yes, what can I do for you Karl
KR: We want you to be John McCain's running mate
SP: Oh Jeepers dude, that is great. What do you need to know?
KR: You are a woman right?
SP: Yes
KR: We are flying you to Dayton on Friday.
I would lay good money that there was virtually NO vetting of this woman. Conservative values governor of a energy-rich state. Pretty, smart, articulate - what drama could there possibly be?
The fact is Sarah Palin had NO RIGHT accepting the offer to be VP -- she has a teenage daughter who is pregnant, she has 4 other children - including one with special needs -- a child with Down's Syndrome requires a lot of attention and time and energy - from BOTH PARENTS - she should not be traipsing off to cabinet meetings and state funerals while dumping the 5 kids on the lap of her husband.
What this shows to me is the complete lack of character by Sarah Palin for accepting a job offer she had no business accepting and then McCain - what a fucking idiot --- America do you really want this man making decisions for 302,000,000 people?
This has the stink of Karl Rove all over it -- McCain was SO desperate he turned to the worst possible person to get him out of his cess pool -- and the turd blossom apparently is apparently dumping more turds in the pool.
I feel SO sorry for Bristol -- she is under the media needle with no choice of her own-- she is being used by Rove, McCain and now by her mother. The right wing will try to milk this story for what it is worth -- but that will just expose their (already know) nhypocrisy - what happened to the abstinence education and family values espoused by Dobson -- oh it doesn't apply if you are running for VP and are one of them.
This is the worst crime of it all -- the frigging whole campaign of mccain should be tossed in jail for endangering a minor
The big question is how will the MSM handle this train wreck.
Go ahead GOP blame the blog world -- look in the mirror and see what you are really looking at. You have no one to blame but yourselves. The fact is -- the damage is done. Doesn't ANYONE know the cover up is always worse than the crime.
Palin is an albatross -- and I predict soon joins Thomas Eagleton in history soon enough. "Family Values" you know always come first.