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    Monday, September 1, 2008, 08:41 PM CST [General]

    by Ian Punnett

     

     


    It was all about family on the first day of “Sarah Palin for VP” national roll-out.  

    As part of the “get-to-know-her” PR push from the McCain campaign, the Palin family story and photo-ops illustrated the political spin:  Gov. Palin is a rock-solid Conservative with the Right values.

    For example, she got a late-in-life bonus baby and it was joyous occasion.  Also, when the tests came back that the boy would suffer from Downs Syndrome, the Pro-Life Palin never even considered abortion.  With her rugged husband and adorable family at her side as the cameras snapped away, the first day of the Sarah Palin Story was picture perfect.

    The first smudge on the image doesn’t amount to much--yet.  Yes, the McCain people confirmed, they were well aware of allegations of ethics violations against Gov. Palin for using her office to have her former brother-in-law fired from the State Police force and those accusations just aren’t true.  Sarah Palin rose to prominence because of principles and the McCain people are confident that there was nothing to these charges.  

    Saturday there was another funny little tidbit that doesn’t amount to much on its own.  Sarah Palin is a devout, lifelong Christian who smoked pot at least a few times when it was legal to do so in Alaska.  The McCain campaign knew all about it but didn’t see that as problem.

    Then it was revealed that Sarah Palin’s husband and oldest son are not registered Republicans.  Now, how somebody is registered may not have anything to do with how they vote and I respect “Independent” voters because I am one myself.

    But there again was the pattern.  To the McCain campaign staff, the fact that governor’s “First Dude” was not a Republican was something that they were aware of and only accentuated Palin’s reputation as a fellow maverick, somebody out of the box, a woman who does not fit the Republican mold.

    And now the new non-news story that Gov. Palin’s 17-year-old daughter, Bristol, is pregnant with her boyfriend’s baby, a young man she intends to marry in her senior year of high school and raise the child with.  

    Again, the Conservative spin here I keep hearing is that this is not a story of teen promiscuity by the teen daughter of an abstinence-only, Evangelical governor, the headline should be something like “amazing family sticks to their Pro-Life principles.”   

    And that’s as may be but, one more time, we’ve also been told that the McCain people knew all about this for a week but didn’t feel it was important.

    So, what do we have?

    We have an ethics-driven governor under investigation for an ethics violation.

    We have lifelong Christian who smoked weed until it was made illegal.

    We have a staunch, lifelong Republican governor with a non-Republican family.

    We have a  conservative, Evangelical Christian, abstinence-only mom with a pregnant 17-year-old daughter.

    What else does the McCain campaign know about Palin that they haven’t told us about yet?

    What other odd admissions are next?

    Sarah Palin is a faithful wife who has been known to go to movies alone with an old boyfriend from time to time?

    She’s a non-drinker who has been investigated for moonshining (until it was made illegal)?

    There are one or two nude photos taken by an old boyfriend floating around?

    The old boyfriend was Barack Obama but the McCain people didn’t think that was relevant.

    Maybe it’s all out now.

    But only the McCain people know for sure.

     

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    I bet there's a lot of Repub AND Dem men who are hoping for nekkid pix of Gov Palin...

    Ian! You forgot to mention that her hubs got a DWI 24 years ago. That matters in this race too, right?

    At least Sarah doesn't hang around with the known domestic terrorist Bill Ayers, racist Rev Wright and Father Pflager, and slum lord Tony Rezko.

    As far as Troopergate goes, Sarah couldn't win. She know for a fact what a psycho evil trooper the guy is, but now that you are the person who could rightfully have him removed, your hands are tied because you have a family connection with him. But rather than being allowed to let him sink his own ship and just stay out of it, you are now the Governor and your chief of security wants to know if anyone has ever threatened you or your family. Turns out this sorry excuse for a trooper is also extremely racist and despises native Alaskans and has verbally attacked your husband as well over the years. When you tell the security chief he instructs your husband to talk to the man in charge of the troopers about it. Then THAT sorry excuse decides to use it as ammo later when he's a disgruntled former employee.

    If weed was legal, what's the problem? I doubt it would show up in a drug test now.

    I am staunch in my beliefs, I am not registered, nor is my husband.

    Abstinence only programs don't work. Got it. My son just went through sex ed in fifth grade. The dialog that happened at home regarding our expectations of him the future were more important than the nuts and bolts he received at school. If the liberal public school is going to teach one thing, and your family believes something else, it is the parent's responsibility to reinforce their belief system. Sometimes hormones get the best of those darn teenagers. And yes, it should be celebrated that this young girl is going to have the love and support of her family and that they didn't wish the pregnancy away down a sink.

    Sarah Palin is tougher than Chuck Norris. She will do one heluva job for us.



    scrapalatte
    September 02, 2008
    05:06 AM CST

    Ian, You crack me up with the way you tell the truth with such sweetness. I listen to you every Sat. night on C2C. I'm in Miami so I can't hear you W-A-Y up there in the northlands, but wish I could. Keep 'em coming.

    Sheila
    September 02, 2008
    06:01 AM CST

    There are LOTS of questions surfacing about Palin. And there is room for speculation of when she will withdraw from the race "for personal reasons".
    1) she lied about refusing funding for the Bridge to Nowhere; she ran for Alaska governor on a pro-bridge platform and she used the funds earmarked for the bridge to build a road on Gravina Island that ends at the shore right where the bridge was planned to be built -- honest? not so much
    2) until 2006, she was a director of the Ted Stevens Excellence in Service 527 organization -- "reformer"? not so much
    3) for years, she was a member of the Alaskan Independence Party (that advocates Alaska's secession from the U.S.) -- patriotic? not so much
    4) she approved 31 earmarks last year (down from 54 the year before because of wanting to avoid "attention from Washington) -- anti-port barrel? not so much
    McCain has only just now hired an attorney to vet her. And it happens to be the person Rove used to smear McCain in South Carolina in 2004 with the "black love child" fiction. Desperate much? -- yes.
    His selection of her was a HUGE mistake and it was his first "presidential" decision. Good judgement? -- not so much.

    Andy
    September 02, 2008
    08:17 AM CST

    IP - great post, you've got a real way with the written word/print media. I hope you do more writing. BTW love your Coasttocoast stuff. I'm surprised they haven't set up a forum as a part of their website - it would give the audience a chance to be more involved, and give the show more listener feedback.

    Once again love your blog. Great title, too: funny and down to earth. You avoided the temptation to call it something more pretentious like "IP Addresses".

    Lee
    September 03, 2008
    01:38 AM CST

    i am a "true" mystery student
    which is no mystery at all
    always return to source i am a waat m waret and is centered in waset(called loxur by the greeks)
    i have 19 years i am only 27
    are system is before atlantis and lemuria
    which dates back to mwanamatapa
    dating back over 5 million years
    and egypt had and still has maps before the first ice age and the symbols are from sudan, ethiopia and uganda/zaire
    people will "lie" and say mesopotamia came first with but can not show you a body or a ancient artifact dating back to ancient times
    there was a group called bohongo which existed before the first mesopotamian egyptian greek atlantian native american asian was born
    they date back to 500,000 b.c.e. and we have boisie whose real name is zanjuthropulus dating back over 1.3 million years in ethiopia and luci whose real name is danesh
    dating back 3.7 million years in kenya which now because they have found hutu's and twa's on the borders of kongo rwanda kongo burundi and kongo angola and kongo tanzania who ave. out to 4 feet 5 as the tallest 3 foot 7 ave and 3 feet shortest the people still exist so why would they call my people apes monkeys ext we were humans and we are the first humans
    and there is no land on earth before kilimanjaro and the group that lives at the base of kilimanjaro is called djaga
    here its even do****ented

    RUWA: God of the Djaga tribe in the beautiful surroundings of Kilimanjaro.

    He created a veritable Garden of Eden.
    then came
    Mungu/Mulungu Swahali/E.Africa
    The creator god
    and they brought fourth ulimwengu
    the first trinity on earth
    MULUNGU: Very remote African God of Bureaucracy. He lives in the sky where he occasionally rumbles like thunder.

    But he's certainly not lightning-fast. Messages take a long time to get through to him through interminable intermediaries, and by the time he gets round to answering them, and they filter back again through the chain of command, they seldom make much sense.
    by the zulu
    Mkulumncandi Swazi Swaziland The creator god known as the great first one
    UMVELINQANGI: Creator God. Heavily involved in the Thunder and Earthquake industry.

    He came down to Earth one day and married the Swamp Goddess UHLANGA. The subsequent formation of primeval reeds resulted in the birth of UNKULUNKULU.
    you still do not have mesopotamia in existence when these names, aspects, and "first" science's were used on earth
    dating back before time
    mesopotamia's writing system is egyptians last writing system
    and the universe was mapped in sudan not egypt the myan calendar has bes the oldest nile deity which is not egypt sudan or ethiopia bes or bis is from uganda zaire kongo kenya rwanda burundi tanzania angola
    why is the center of the myan calendar have bis in the middle when 32 pyramids in sudan talk about being in the milky way and they recorded that the moon was so close you could see what was on the surface of the moon
    which the zulu called chata but we call each
    but the oldest name on earth is jaro or yaro then the name zori
    now anybody who has face evidence proof mesopotamia came before egypt show me a body show me artifacts that will connect egypt starting after because i have millions upon millions of do****ented facts and 100 year old pictures showing the middle east having mounds and was later changed from 1800's to 1915 by artisan studios
    like the yucatan i have pictures showing what it looked like 50 years ago somebody changed it dont no who but somebody changed it
    now chile and peru goes back over 3500 years
    egpyt cairo goes back over 52,000 years and the sphinx base is over a 100 feet in the ground were the real hall of records which has been tampered with also still is there
    now the full hall of records is in sudan and ethiopia and no one can read it but us
    infact 90% of egyptian translations are incorrect and meanings are so far off we wonder was it attentional
    now my english is not that good
    but my first languages and writing systems on earth is a far greater
    the first language on earth is the swa langauge which means first honorable child in egypt
    so please anybody who has do****ented facts
    because all the mesopotamian deitys all trace back to egypt
    utu egypt enki sudan and kenya ninhursag egypt inanna egypt enlil lil nammo hello nammo who is mother of enki hello thats the dogon west africa who came from the bambara dating back 20,000 years as the start of the pacific culture
    nile valley civilizations came first before mesopotamia before atlantis
    i will be waiting for a response

    amunguluku
    September 18, 2008
    04:07 PM CST

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