Sarah Palin divorce connected to Trig birth?

Let me first say that, after initially wondering if Sarah Palin indeed were not the mother of Trig, I abandoned that idea, even before daughter Bristol gave birth to Tripp Palin and knocked herself out of the running to be Trig’s mom. (“Audrey” at Palin’s Deceptions and a few other nutbars still hold on to that idea, albeit while simply ignoring Bristol’s birth timeframe with Tripp, because that’s the only way you can do that.

Anyway, how does this connect with rumors of Sarah Palin’s divorce from ex-First Dude Todd?

Simple.

I blogged when it first came out about the National Enquirer’s reporting of late last summer about a former Sarah Palin affair with Todd’s best friend, which is allegedly, according to some Alaskan bloggers, the reason behind the divorce. (The stories were never officially denied by the Palin Veep campaign after the Enquirer story hit the stand, and the mag has never been sued over the story.)

However, a decade-old affair being that destructive now doesn't make sense.

But, what if it weren't the only one? (And, bloggers in The Last Frontier have used the plural word, as well as the singular, without listing any names.)

What if, as Sarah Palin and Dr. Cathy Baldwin-Johnson have always claimed, Sarah is the mother of Trig Palin —

But Trig has another father, besides Todd?

Would explain why she had to rush back, not just to Anchorage, but to Mat-Su Regional Hospital. If she gave birth somewhere else, and a blood transfusion were needed, and someone with a different blood type than Todd were the father...

It would also explain a VERY interesting insight from a commenter at Celtic Diva. (The comment is in response to a guest post by nurse Lee Thompkins, who likens birth doubters to conspiracy theorists.

Sweet Lucy 47 says:

Palin had become a Pro-abortion Pro-Lifer.

She really didn't want this baby, she had the amnio, found out then the baby was "damaged" and really realized she didn't want it...then denied she was even pregnant for months, until she could deny it no longer, so had to own up to it. Then, in Texas realizing she had a serious problem, made a fateful decision to travel as she did, in the hopes that God would take over and she wouldn't have the baby. Cynical?? Yes, maybe I am...but it all fits in with your explanation, and it all fits in with what happened and it explains the reasoning behind her actions.

Fits to me. It does accept Palin at her word (which ain't worth much) about the legal facts of the birth — and nothing else.

Sarah Palin is ultimately about Sarah Palin, religious beliefs and all. Whether this was a fully conscious mindset or not, it sounds reasonable — and quite perturbing.

If this were an unwanted pregnancy, because Todd was not the dad, it would explain the mindset behind that idea, too.

Also, per one commenter to already drop by, this explanation fits Occam’s Razor to a T.

No claims of “flexibility” in birth dates (we know when Sarah left Dallas, and she would have to be really dumb to lie about Trig’s birth as the reason she was in the rush); no looking at pictures of Bristol’s stomach for roundness, or lack thereof, or Sarah’s; no minute examination of pictures for actual, or alleged, Photoshopping; no wild goose chases around MySpace pages.

Of course, this is all predicated on the claim that some sort of separation is happening, that it’s based not just on one decade-old affair, but other marital problems, too, and that one of those “marital problems” led to pregnancy.

That said, it’s still more sensical by far than the idea Sarah Palin isn’t the mom of Trig.

Former gov next in GOP Pants Watch?

Former New York Gov Eliot Spitzer’s call girl says she had a tryst, or more with another governor, back in 2006. The Daily News has talked to the alleged john’s spokesperson and the gov denies it. Now, the escort doesn’t say he was GOP, and Spitzer wasn’t, either.

But… c’mon…

Now, who fits the bill?

(Note: This corrects an earlier post; the friend of the governor in the alleged tryst was in his 30s, not the gov.)

GOP Pants Watch, emeritus division

Leisha Pickering, estranged wife of former Mississippi GOP Rep. Chris Pickering, claims, yes, he had an affair. Wait until fall; GOP pants will be falling like autumn leaves. And, Ms. Pickering, in this one, is suing Chris’s sweetie, something other GOP Pants Wives haven’t done.

Politico has much more on this situation.

For example, like Pants Watch brethren Sen. John Ensign and Gov. (and former Rep.) Mark Sanford, Pickering stayed in Washington at the C Street Christian fellowship halfway house.

Ensign to run for re-election

Yep, neither affair, nor affair payoff, nor hypocrisy to Pentecostal beliefs shall keep Sen. Ensign from his appointed Senate re-election run; five bucks says that, since he’s not up until 2012, the Religious Right and everybody else out there votes for him, and doesn’t even give him a primary challenge.

Tom Coburn in GOP Pants Watch, accessory division

Turns out GOP Sen. Tom Coburn knew about colleague John Ensign’s affair with a staffer, John Hampton, the staffer’s husband, says in a video interview, confronted him at a now-famous C Street politico-religious retreat, and suggested the payoff idea that Ensign actually did. (Column based on transcript is here.)

Politico has more, including a statement from Coburn’s office shitting on Ensign. Coburn’s shitting on Hampton now, too.

You know, it’s almost more fun when an accessory like Coburn gets exposed than when an Ensign himself is.

Hmm, will he get a GOP primary challenger in Oklahoma?

Did gOd tell Sanford to lie about frequency of affair?

Earlier today, it was reported that adulterous Republican Mark Sanford, the South Carolina governor, said gOd wanted him to stay in office.

Did gOd also tell Sanford not to publicly disclose all the times he met Maria Belen Chapur, in New York City as well as Buenos Aires?

Xn Right No. 1 on porn, preggers, divorces

Don’t wanna believe me? It’s all true, per the Census Bureau, the Guttmacher Institute and research studies. In the wake of South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford joining Nevada Sen. John Ensign in the GOP Pants Watch brigade, the New York Times’ Charles Blow puts those findings in one convenient op-ed package. He uses the analogy of the original Clean Air Act of way back in 1963, with further development after that.

In order of headline subjects:

A study titled “Red Light States: Who Buys Online Adult Entertainment?” that was conducted by Benjamin Edelman, an assistant professor of business at Harvard Business School and published earlier this year in the Journal of Economic Perspectives found that subscriptions to online pornography sites were “more prevalent in states where surveys indicate conservative positions on religion, gender roles, and sexuality” and in states where “more people agree that ‘I have old-fashioned values about family and marriage.’ ” …

According to 2006 data from the Guttmacher Institute, red states accounted for eight of the 10 states with the highest teenage birthrates. …

According to the Census Bureau’s Statistical Abstract, states that went Republican in November accounted for eight of the 10 states with the highest divorce rates in 2006.

So, could the next Republican offender to join the GOP Pants Watch at least have the courtesy of giving us the trifecta, by knocking up a 19-year-old not his wife while watching porn with her?

And, would that the urban legend about celebrity deaths, that “these things happen in threes,” were true and applied to self-inflicted political flameouts. (Monica Conyers is too small to count, and I’m focused on the Republican sex hypocrisy shtick right now anyway.)

Hmm, Sarah Palin wears the pants in her family anyway, right? Maybe she could have another affair.

Gov. Sanford: They call his flame Maria

The State, Columbia’s newspaper, has copies of e-mails exchanged between Gov. Mark Sanford, and his “battery recharger,” a woman from Buenos Aires, Argentina known as Maria.

Oh, and while this was about sex, sex, sex, stereotypically, women don’t like emotional infidelity, and Gov. Johnny D. Pantsed had that, too:

You have a particular grace and calm that I adore. You have a level of sophistication that so fitting with your beauty.

So, your wife, Jenny, then is unsophisticated and graceless? Oops…

And now, Jenny Sanford has her own statement out, hurts and all:

We reached a point where I felt it was important to look my sons in the eyes and maintain my dignity, self-respect, and my basic sense of right and wrong. I therefore asked my husband to leave two weeks ago.

The hurt, even scorned, Southern woman?

The South Carolina GOP is having a barbecue this weekend, and Gov. Sanford is the main course, I guarohntee.

Or, from Buenos Aires… Ay, chingada!

Update: Sanford apparently originally had a two-week rendezvous planned with the now-identified Maria Belen Chapur. And, this was after his wife insisted on their trial separation.

Boy, talk about pouring gasoline on yourself.

Another GOP hypocrite can’t keep his pants on

Hello, Nevada Sen. John Ensign, with the extra angle of being hypocritical toward members of one’s own party by demanding the resignation of former GOP Senate colleague Larry Craig.

Politico has details; Ensign was boinking a female staffer, then paid her off when he reconciled with his wife after some sort of separation. Staffer’s hubby later, allegedly, wanted some big dinero from Long John Ensign.

Of course, Ensign started his hypocrisy against Bill Clinton in 1998, while a Congressman running against Sen. Harry Reid. as Think Progress notes.

And, he did NOT call for fellow Senate GOP adulterer to resign in 2007.

So, here’s how sex works for the GOP.

Extramarital heterosexual sex is OK for the GOP.

Gay sex is not OK at all.

Extramarital heterosexual sex is NOT OK for Democrats. (Or “others,” if Bernie Sanders ever gets busted.)

And, since Ensign is a Pentecostal, a member of the “holy roller” Foursquare Gospel church, maybe he can (or maybe he will) claim demonic possession.

Not just the affair, but the hypocrisy within the party, has probably killed your presidential hopes not only for 2012 but beyond.

(For more snark along these lines, click either the “Republican sex hypocrisy” or “GOP Pants Watch” tags.

Update: On the blackmail angle, I guess two jobs courtesy of Ensign weren’t enough payout for Doug Hampton, husband of former Ensign mistress Cindy Hampton. It’s nice to see the good old Christian political value of “greed” joining “lust” and “hypocrisy” at their finest.

Second, Ensign has now dropped the blackmail angle, instead noting Doug Hampton approached Fox News. But, the Las Vegas Sun has several questions related to that, including how Ensign found out about Doug Hampton’s approach to Fox, and what sort of angle Hampton put on that.

In an additional bombshell, he says Ensign had a forced sit-down with a group of his Senate GOP peers over the matter; he lists Oklahoma Sen. Tom Coburn by name.

Update 2, June 20: And now, we’re back to the extortion angle. I guess “lying” is joining the list of good old GOP Christian values, too.

Oh, and on the NYT op-ed pages, Gail Collins gets some snark at Ensign as would-be presidential candidate.

Update 3: Note to COTG visitors and others. Mark Sanford hit the radar screen after I submitted this John Ensign post. Just click this “Sanford” tag link, though, and you can read away to your heart’s content.