One of the biggest questions in my mind about Sarah Palin has involved four-month-old Baby Trig. Who will care for him while Mommy is out running for vice president?
Will Palin drag the baby out onto the campaign trail? Will she fly back to Alaska frequently in order to spend quality time with him? Will she leave him in the care of his father and siblings for the remainder of the campaign?
The real question is: would a woman who gave birth four months ago to a special needs child effectively abandon him for the next two months in order to seek higher political office?
Now, there is the suggestion of an answer buzzing through the Intertubes: maybe she didn't give birth to a child four months ago at all.
There must be plenty of medical records and obstetricians and medical eye-witnesses prepared to testify to Sarah Palin's giving birth to Trig. There must be a record of Bristol's high school attendance for the past year. And surely, surely, the McCain camp did due diligence on this. But the noise around this story is now deafening, and the weirdness of the chronology sufficient to rise to the level of good faith questions. So please give us these answers - and provide medical records for Sarah Palin's pregnancy - and put this to rest.But my mind is really having trouble going there. I mean, there is no way that John McCain would sell Sarah Palin to the American people with a heroic but false narrative of carrying a Downs Syndrome baby to term, is there?
And they wouldn't fail to investigate whether such a story is true, would they? McCain's failure to vet his running mate has become the stuff of legend already, but he can't be that inept, can he?
And Sarah Palin wouldn't step onto the national political stage with a lie of this magnitude, would she? She would have to be a psychopath to tell a falsehood like that to the American people with no regard for the potentially cataclysmic consequences. That, or a Democratic mole assigned to infiltrate the GOP and destroy it from the inside.
