Baby Boom at the Alaskan Governor's Mansion
September 1st 2008 22:38
What’s in the water up there in Alaska?
I mean, for those in need of fertility treatment, save your money going through costly medical procedures. Just head up to Anchorage and in short order you will find yourself with child. That’s how it seems to work for the Palin Bunch, anyway. First the Governor herself gives birth in April, her fifth child, and now the latest word on the campaign trail: the Governor’s 17 year old daughter Bristol is five months pregnant. Well... those moose burgers must have some kind of bizarre properties that increase fertility. It would be worth looking into. The Palin’s have put out a statement saying they fully support her daughter, and that she intends on marrying the father of the child in short order. The Palin’s have said that they are proud of their daughter’s decision to keep the baby and even prouder to be becoming grandparents. But what does it mean for McCain-Palin 08? I mean Bristol’s pregnancy may be a bit of an early controversy, but it’s not alone. There’s the inquest over whether or not the Governor was right to fire an Alaskan official for refusing to fire her ex-brother-in-law. And the revelations that Todd Palin, the Alaskan First Husband, was arrested with a DUI when he was 22 and the two were dating. It’s just been controversy after controversy, but they are lucky it’s all coming out now. Here’s why.
It’s better for Palin to get this stuff out early. Once it’s out people can come to terms with it and forget about it before Election Day. In two months time, people will take it for granted that Bristol Palin is pregnant and will have forgotten about the Governor’s other indiscretions. More than that, it might work in her favour, once the shock wears off. There are thousands of families in the heartland of America that will be able to relate to the Palin’s woes. Parents of teenage mothers. Quite a large percent of people who have gotten DUI’s when they were younger. Those people will see any attack by the Democrats against Palin’s ability to govern based on these factors personally. It’s like in Australian politics. When the media attacked Pauline Hanson for being a “dumb racist” the thousands of people who believed as she did took it personally and it transformed Hanson into a bonafide political player. Both the Obama campaign and the media (in the tank for Obama, for the most part) need to walk a very fine line between reporting the news and being derogatory. A slip into disparaging language against the Palin family will not play well in communities who are for the first time in their lives considering voting Democrat because of Obama’s charisma. An insult to the Palin’s and, by extension, the voters could tip the scales in the favour of the Republicans if Obama doesn’t keep his overzealous campaign workers on a very tight leash.
At least this gives those degenerates at the Daily Kos something real to talk about. A few days ago I had the dubious honour of reading a particularly popular post that claimed documentary evidence that Sarah Palin’s youngest son Trig was in fact Bristol’s, being passed off as her mothers to avoid political embarrassment. The evidence? Bristol was off school with mono and Sarah Palin didn’t LOOK pregnant. While I, and most logically minded folk, got a good chuckle out of the paranoia at the Daily Kos in certain sectors the rumour seemed to take off. If it was true, there would have been uproar. A Governor and VP candidate intentionally misleading the public to avoid embarrassment. But Palin isn’t that dumb, and neither is the McCain campaign. Something like that would have come up in vetting, as did Bristol’s pregnancy, and McCain would have run a mile away. But he didn’t because it was blatantly untrue. In many ways the confirmation of Bristol’s pregnancy is a response to the far-left loons that came up with the baby-switch plotline. It shows that the Palin’s have nothing to hide. In many ways, it makes them the ordinary American family.
The mainstream media may try to disparage the Palin’s now that all of this is coming out. It will be the worst mistake the media make. People love to see their politicians are human. They like to see people, and families, like their own striving for the nation’s highest offices because it gives them hope for their own children. Those people won’t take an attack against the Palin’s kindly. If they even hear about it. Amidst the Republican National Convention this week and the media saturation of Hurricane Gustav, the Bristol Palin story will get minimal coverage as something purely unimportant in comparison to a hurricane that could level New Orleans. Rightly so. It puts the Palin story into perspective and if the media try to revive it once Gustav passes, they will find all the momentum gone and something else to cover. Either way, the Bristol Palin story won’t make nearly as much impact as is expected.
One thing is for certain though: there’s something in the water up in Alaska.
I mean, for those in need of fertility treatment, save your money going through costly medical procedures. Just head up to Anchorage and in short order you will find yourself with child. That’s how it seems to work for the Palin Bunch, anyway. First the Governor herself gives birth in April, her fifth child, and now the latest word on the campaign trail: the Governor’s 17 year old daughter Bristol is five months pregnant. Well... those moose burgers must have some kind of bizarre properties that increase fertility. It would be worth looking into. The Palin’s have put out a statement saying they fully support her daughter, and that she intends on marrying the father of the child in short order. The Palin’s have said that they are proud of their daughter’s decision to keep the baby and even prouder to be becoming grandparents. But what does it mean for McCain-Palin 08? I mean Bristol’s pregnancy may be a bit of an early controversy, but it’s not alone. There’s the inquest over whether or not the Governor was right to fire an Alaskan official for refusing to fire her ex-brother-in-law. And the revelations that Todd Palin, the Alaskan First Husband, was arrested with a DUI when he was 22 and the two were dating. It’s just been controversy after controversy, but they are lucky it’s all coming out now. Here’s why.
It’s better for Palin to get this stuff out early. Once it’s out people can come to terms with it and forget about it before Election Day. In two months time, people will take it for granted that Bristol Palin is pregnant and will have forgotten about the Governor’s other indiscretions. More than that, it might work in her favour, once the shock wears off. There are thousands of families in the heartland of America that will be able to relate to the Palin’s woes. Parents of teenage mothers. Quite a large percent of people who have gotten DUI’s when they were younger. Those people will see any attack by the Democrats against Palin’s ability to govern based on these factors personally. It’s like in Australian politics. When the media attacked Pauline Hanson for being a “dumb racist” the thousands of people who believed as she did took it personally and it transformed Hanson into a bonafide political player. Both the Obama campaign and the media (in the tank for Obama, for the most part) need to walk a very fine line between reporting the news and being derogatory. A slip into disparaging language against the Palin family will not play well in communities who are for the first time in their lives considering voting Democrat because of Obama’s charisma. An insult to the Palin’s and, by extension, the voters could tip the scales in the favour of the Republicans if Obama doesn’t keep his overzealous campaign workers on a very tight leash.
At least this gives those degenerates at the Daily Kos something real to talk about. A few days ago I had the dubious honour of reading a particularly popular post that claimed documentary evidence that Sarah Palin’s youngest son Trig was in fact Bristol’s, being passed off as her mothers to avoid political embarrassment. The evidence? Bristol was off school with mono and Sarah Palin didn’t LOOK pregnant. While I, and most logically minded folk, got a good chuckle out of the paranoia at the Daily Kos in certain sectors the rumour seemed to take off. If it was true, there would have been uproar. A Governor and VP candidate intentionally misleading the public to avoid embarrassment. But Palin isn’t that dumb, and neither is the McCain campaign. Something like that would have come up in vetting, as did Bristol’s pregnancy, and McCain would have run a mile away. But he didn’t because it was blatantly untrue. In many ways the confirmation of Bristol’s pregnancy is a response to the far-left loons that came up with the baby-switch plotline. It shows that the Palin’s have nothing to hide. In many ways, it makes them the ordinary American family.
The mainstream media may try to disparage the Palin’s now that all of this is coming out. It will be the worst mistake the media make. People love to see their politicians are human. They like to see people, and families, like their own striving for the nation’s highest offices because it gives them hope for their own children. Those people won’t take an attack against the Palin’s kindly. If they even hear about it. Amidst the Republican National Convention this week and the media saturation of Hurricane Gustav, the Bristol Palin story will get minimal coverage as something purely unimportant in comparison to a hurricane that could level New Orleans. Rightly so. It puts the Palin story into perspective and if the media try to revive it once Gustav passes, they will find all the momentum gone and something else to cover. Either way, the Bristol Palin story won’t make nearly as much impact as is expected.
One thing is for certain though: there’s something in the water up in Alaska.
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Comment by James Rickard
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Angling Fish
Comment by Paul Bleakley
Agent Politics
The other thing is watching how it's dealt with. So far it's been dealt with in an open and honest manner, which negates the controversy there would have been otherwise.
It's not what the girl does that's the issue. It's how the adults deal with it that counts.
Comment by Anna Kovacevic
So who are you anyway?
Bonafide?
So bonafide she asked for political donations, pocketed the money, never paid it back and was subsequently jailed for fraud?
Comment by Paul Bleakley
Agent Politics
She was sent to jail and then cleared by showing that she had no knowledge of the procedural mistake.
And yeah, a bonafide player who set the agenda in Australian politics for years. You can't get more bonafide than that as a minor party/independant.
Comment by Anna Kovacevic
So who are you anyway?
Do you believe that her 4% vote in the last Federal election in Queensland has set the agenda for Australian politics?
Comment by Paul Bleakley
Agent Politics
In 1996, Pauline did set the agenda by bringing issues of immigration, rural economics and trade to the forefront of the political debate. Her views were extreme and you and I might not agree with them but most political commentators agree that she set the tone throughout her only term in Federal politics between 1996 and 1998.
As for the $200,000... It's a part of our democratic process. If you earn over a certain amount of the public vote, the Government reimburses you to prevent special interests contributing to campaigns as they do in the US. Pauline used this campaign finance law, and yeah it's unfair. But that's not what she went to jail for and while it's unfair, it's not illegal.
Write to the K-Rudd about campaign finance reform. We'll see what he can do.
Comment by Anna Kovacevic
So who are you anyway?
I disagree she set the agenda for anything at all. I think the only people excited about Pauline Hanson were some people in Queensland and the media who whipped themselves into a frenzy every time she spoke.
For ordinary people outside of Queensland, she really wasn't all that important, even in her heyday.