...they were telling the truth about John Edwards, weren't they?

The National Enquirer now has a story about how Track Palin didn't exactly join the Army out of patriotism, but to avoid facing the music on his "involvement in a local vandalism incident."

I know "family" is supposed to be off-limits, and the mainstream media are keeping to that, as they did with the Edwards story. Ironically, however, the Enquirer report will undoubtedly be read by more potential Palin voters than, say, anything The Washington Post or even USA Today might report. While evangelical Christian voters do not seem to care about Sarah Palin's Cheney-esque abuses of office, some of them may yet be discouraged by the type of "acting out" typically exhibited by children who feel invisible to their parents.