Palin roundup — Day 4 follies

Wasilla PD was on chopping block; pastor problem; son/grandson issue still in the air; more on Day 4.

First, if McCain was looking for Hillary Clinton PUMA votes, via Poltico, the wacky cover and cover story of Us magazine can’t help.

She ran for mayor of Wasilla with a campaign pledge to get rid of its police department.

Palin, as mayor of Wasilla, also was a tax hiker (how’s that GOP red-meaters?) and would-be book banner who once faced as a recall drive.

She’s got a “Jeremiah Wright” history of apocalyptic pastors, including Ed Kalnins, who said:

Critics of President Bush will be banished to hell; questioned whether people who voted for Sen. John Kerry in 2004 would be accepted to heaven; and said that Jesus “operated from that position of war mode.”

In the same story, Palin herself, despite her earlier-demonstrated ignorance of the Iraq surge, claims the war is a “task that is from God.”

Sid Bluementhal says the pick was McCain as maverick of a sort — McCain’s pushback against Rove and Kid Karl’s Romney push. (This shows just how much of a politically tin ear Rove has, despite his alleged political campaign genius.)

An Anchorage TV station claims to have thoroughly refuted the rumor that Trig Palin is Sarah’s grandson, not son. It seems the station has done so, nonetheless, as I’ve already noted, she’s gun-shy on the issue.

That said, the “pregnancy timetable,” with Bristol now pregnant for the first/second time, does NOT preclude a first pregnancy at all. I’m only 11 months older than my sister, for example.

And, that all said, the rumor did supposedly originate on Kos. It’s funny to see Kossacks on HuffPost claim they’ve been “infiltrated” by Freeper-types. (For that matter, the first links to it I saw were NOT on Kos, and did not link back to Kos.)

Finally, on Trig’s date and place of birth, this certainly appears to be a true webpage of Mat-Su Regional Medical Center births, for April 18, 2008. See who’s NOT listed?

And, there are no births listed a day to either side of April 18.

Refuting some claims from Huff Post’s assertion it is her baby:

A baby shower means nothing. (Of course, it sounds like a McCain flak wrote the whole post in question, which I'm not going.) Nor does the date it was held. Tell me when it was scheduled, and then we’ll talk.

Or, post a birth certificate copy on a website for us to look at.

This is 2008. The state of Alaska either has birth certificate copies as PDFs, Governor, or somebody on your staff can PDF a paper copy in 30 seconds.

Meanwhile, Palin continues to lie about family privacy issues, especially as associated with politics:

On Monday, Sarah Palin issued a statement about Bristol's pregnancy saying that she and her husband, Todd, are “proud of Bristol's decision to have her baby.” The statement noted that Bristol and Johnston will marry, and asked that the media “respect our daughter and Levi's privacy as has always been the tradition of children of candidates.”

That’s not been true for more than a century, ever since Teddy Roosevelt, and the press commenting on Alice’s smoking at the White House. There’s no “tradition” at all. Read Alice’s Wiki bio for more on her runabout life.

The MSM is starting to ask the “Eagleton question” about Palin being pulled from the ticket. True, North Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford said he’d heard no such removal talk. But, the MSM is asking the right question.

And, speaking of that, Intrade is offering about a 12 percent shot she will withdraw/be pushed out.

I don’t know if this means the whole conservative bloviosphere is swinging into line, but Byron York gives the McCain campaign Palin a halfway pass, at least, on its claims of “thorough vetting.”

Schmuck Talk’s staff is keeping the Ice Queen of the North on ice with the media. Probably to coordinate stories on the (non) vetting process, etc., amongst other things.

And, speaking of that, if you want to help Schmuck Daddy vet his “partner and soulmate,” vet Sarah Palin yourself!

We’re at day four and counting (not counting last Friday). Will she beat Tom Eagleton’s 17 days of fame?

Apologies for initially transgendering Trig Palin in my subheader; I apparently was thinking about Sarah Palin's daughter, Bristol.