What I don't think you realize is that the people who actually support Palin don't care about any of this stuff... That is precisely the scary thing about Palin... not so much Palin herself... her supporters are the ones that are scary.

But what was she going to do about her own pregnancy with a Down's Syndrome child? Was she going to claim she got pregnant while she was pregnant? The babies were born about 8 months apart. Sarah's little brain cells must have been really spinning.

The Constant Weader at www.RealityChex.com

How does this make you a conspiracy nut?

"I was one of those (like Andrew Sullivan) who thought that baby Trig was not Bristol's but Sarah's."

Or did you write it wrong?

Anyhoo, Could it be that Trig is the son of the kid who was banished to Iraq? The mother could have been paid off and thereby remains silent.

MJ, we're happy to have you on our side.

I'd love to get your take on what happened with that Russian ship - the Arctic Sea. Were the pirates actually Israeli commandos? Were they captured by Russian forces? Did Peres fly to Russia to secure their release?

Call me a conspiracy theorist if you wish, but I have never believed, and don't think I could be made to believe, that Baby Trigg is Sarah's - not if her account of the water breaking/travel/delivery is to be credited. I'll spare you the details, but I've given birth three times and it simply does NOT happen the way she claimed. Nor do you look like the side of a barn with your 4th pregnancy and barely show for the 5th. There are simply some physiological facts that can't be talked around or "charmed" away.

So, either

1) SP is lying about how she gave birth in order to make it a more exciting, awe-inspiring story but being really, really, really dumb about the lies she tells
or
2) she's lying about the fact that she gave birth and the identity of her own child, which moves her into the pathological category.

Laugh away and point fingers if you want, but I think it's very legitimate (or at least was during the campaign) to have reservations about our country being led by someone who is either a pathological liar or a non-pathological but really, really, really dumb liar. She's hidden behind the "how dare you question my family or intrude into my privacy" quite successfully and most people have bought it. But to my mind the, shall we say, "truth-telling habits" of a presidential or vice-presidential candidate are always very relevant and very important. (Seriously -- don't you want to know how willing they are to lie and, damnit, how smart they are about it if/when they decide to lie!?)

Disagree with you on one point, MJ. There is no reason to conclude from the known facts that Trigg is her son. In response to the accusations that he was not her son and further speculation that therefore he must be Bristol's, she responded only by proving that he couldn't be Bristol's ("Look -- go stare at my teenage daughter -- see, she's already pregnant with her own baby.") But that doesn't rule out the possibility that she could have arranged to adopt-and-pretend-it's-her-own the child of someone else, perhaps especially if she found someone who was going to have a Down's Syndrome child that they weren't going to keep or were planning to abort. After all, what's a better campaign prop than a special needs child that you courageously decided to accept and cherish? (And I do give her credit for that part, no matter who his mother may be.)

So Sarah was willing to shove her daughter in front of the cameras to refute the rumor (not absolutely necessary; one of John Kerry's stepsons was 'off camera' for the entire campaign and it was no big deal). But she hasn't been willing to produce a (dare I mention it?) *birth certificate* for Trigg, or allowed a doctor or nurse who was there at the delivery to be interviewed, or taken any other steps to prove that Trigg is hers. If he was someone else's, then she would have needed to be in Wasilla he was born -- thus explaining the mad rush across the country from Texas, where she went past many hospitals while she was, supposedly, already in labor with a special needs child.

In fact, depending on the timing of things, Levi's story could just provide additional reason to believe that she might have concocted a plan to claim someone else's baby as her own. I mean, if he's telling the truth, she'd already established thought about doing so and decided she was willing to do so .... and it's a much shorter jump to "well, if I can't claim Bristol's, maybe I can find someone else's." than it is to come up with the scheme in the first place. (Sort of a variant on the "Madam, we've established that you're willing to, the only question is your price.")

Thank God we were spared having this person representing our country or so close to the Oval Office .... but until she gives up all ambition to be a leader of my country, I'm not going to give up my still-strong suspicion that she was lying through her teeth, stupidly so, about Trigg. And if she would lie about that, what would be off limits?

Thanks Elizabeth for writing this, I don't think I could have put it together quite like you did. Although, I won't go so far as to say she adopted someone elses baby all signs point to Trig being Bristol. If she had nothing to hide she would've released Trig's birth certificate, and not waited until the night before to drop off her sham of a Dr.s not on 11/3/08.

Nothing surprises me about these hillbillies!

No point in going to Palin Deceptions as Audrey isn't discussing the Levi Vanity Fair interview.

Go here if you want a reasonable up-to-date point of view.

palingates dot blogspot dot com

If you read the comments section you will find some people beating up on Levi for going public with his story. You'll also find those who say they will never believe him and challenge everything he says. I know, it is crazy, but to think that this story will somehow dissuade the radical Sarah followers is delusional, at best.

I truly wish that the media would remove the spotlight from this most undeserving woman. She cannot win the presidency because independents will not vote for her, nor will centrist Republicans. She appeals ONLY to that nutcase 28% that followed Bush to the end.

A more deserving and relevant story, and a lesson in history is the one on Jackie Kennedy and the book regarding the Kennedy assassination.

Excerpt:

Manchester [the author of the book] also discovered that Dallas “had become the Mecca for medicine-show evangelists … the Minutemen, the John Birch and Patrick Henry Societies, and the headquarters of [ultra-conservative oil billionaire] H. L. Hunt and his activities.”

“In that third year of the Kennedy presidency,” Manchester wrote, “a kind of fever lay over Dallas country. Mad things happened. Huge billboards screamed, ‘Impeach Earl Warren.’ Jewish stores were smeared with crude swastikas.…Radical Right polemics were distributed in public schools; Kennedy’s name was booed in classrooms; corporate junior executives were required to attend radical seminars.” A retired major general ran the American flag upside down, deriding it as “the Democrat flag.” A wanted poster with J.F.K.’s face on it was circulated, announcing “this man is Wanted” for—among other things—“turning the sovereignty of the US over to the Communist controlled United Nations” and appointing “anti-Christians … aliens and known Communists” to federal offices. And a full-page advertisement had appeared the day of the assassination in The Dallas Morning News accusing Kennedy of making a secret deal with the Communist Party; when it was shown to the president, he was appalled. He turned to Jacqueline, who was visibly upset, and said, “Oh, you know, we’re heading into nut country today.”

Manchester discovered that in a wealthy Dallas suburb, when told that President Kennedy had been murdered in their city, the students in a fourth-grade class burst into applause. For Manchester, who revered Kennedy, such responses, encountered throughout Dallas, were deeply offensive and would influence the book he was about to write.

--Sound familiar to anyone?

I trust the Secret Service to do everything humanly possible to protect Pres. Obama but, as JFK himself said, it is pretty difficult to stop someone who is truly committed. -- It was as ugly as described (although I don't recall even then guns being carried openly to public meetings). There was so much hate toward the Kennedys in the South - both JFK and RFK -- that most stunning shock of the assassination was that the killer had had leftist leanings. ----------- I just find myself thinking over and over,like a mantra, that Teddy died of natural causes in his own bed. For so many, including possibly Teddy himself, it seemed back then that it was just a matter of time before someone got him also.