Mudflats Blog weighs in on baby-gate.....

[Joanne98]

The story has broken and we now know which version of “Babygate” is true. Palin’s unwed 17-year old daughter is pregnant.

Palin, who arrived in St. Paul today to accept the Republican nomination for vice president, sent out a joint statement with her husband, Todd.

“Our beautiful daughter Bristol came to us with news that as parents we knew would make her grow up faster than we had ever planned,” they said. “We’re proud of Bristol’s decision to have her baby and even prouder to become grandparents. As Bristol faces the responsibilities of adulthood, she knows she has our unconditional love and support.


“Bristol and the young man she will marry are going to realize very quickly the difficulties of raising a child, which is why they will have the love and support of our entire family. We ask the media to respect our daughter and Levi’s privacy as has always been the tradition of children of candidates,” the Palin family statement concluded.

This confirms three very important things:

Trig is Palin’s baby, and the strange strange circumstances of his birth (delivering a speech in Texas while in labor, and taking the prolonged two-pronged commercial airline flight during a high-risk pregnancy without notifying the flight crew, then driving past two hospitals in Anchorage to deliver in a facility an hour drive away with no neonatal ICU) are apparently true. Todd Palin’s reason for making those potentially life and death decisions about his wife and unborn son? “You can’t have a fish-picker from Texas.”
The fact that Palin had a 16-year old who got pregnant out of wedlock was presumably unknown by the McCain people. After all, he only met her twice, and probably never met any of her children. And it was obviously too much of a bother to vet the candidate and at the very least know in advance what kind of sensational and unwanted headlines might follow. AND, Palin didn’t volunteer this information.
Our Republican Vice Presidential candidate is a person of questionable judgment. I don’t think there are many out there who would disagree with this statement at this point.
So, in the first three days, she’s lied about saying “Thanks but no thanks” on the bridge to nowhere, and withheld information from the campaign she’s supposedly trying to help, that could be devastating to McCain. At the very least, it sure doesn’t help. What’s next?

As I said before, this may be the tip of our Alaskan iceberg. There are ‘gates’ a-plenty out there that are just waiting for some pretty basic investigation to reveal their secrets.


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[thunder rising]

1. There is just no honor amongst theives. Poor, poor, GOP got had by the Mayor of Wasilla (in Alaska)

[seemslikeadream]

2. privacy as has always been the tradition of children of candidates,”

Is that so?

[XOKCowboy]

3. Everybody needs to check this blog. A great source of information from a Dem who lives there

and understands Alaskans.

[Wilber_Stool]

4. Our little baby daughter has

carnal flu.