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[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by scaeagles

I think she came out with that to deny that Trig was not her child as was being reported....well, rumored on blogs, not really reported. I don't think it had anything to do with her teenage daughter having a child out of wedlock.

It's waaay too coincidental that this bizarre Trig rumor popped up just before the announcement that her 17 year old was pregnant out of wedlock.

At best, the Trig rumor was started because Palin's camp was probably scrambling to figure out the best way to spin the real story. Either someone got wind of some sort of baby "scandal" with her daughter and built the Trig thing based on whatever trace of leak they found, or someone maliciously leaked it.

At worst (and I'm aware this is my JFK-addled mind thinking, I don't actually believe this to be true), the Trig rumor was actually started by her camp so that when the true "scandal" was revealed it seemed downright pedestrian next to faking a pregnancy.

Instead, she was apparently shunted off and not seen in public until she had to. Do we need anymore proof that abstinence education doesn't work? Hello Mrs. Palin?

More than a single bit of annecdotal evidence? Yes. Fortunately (or unfortunately), there's plenty more.

[Tenigma]

Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

More than a single bit of annecdotal evidence? Yes. Fortunately (or unfortunately), there's plenty more.

Wouldn't it have been better for them to simply announce the engagement, with the pregnancy as just a side thing? I think trying to shed more light on the family is unnecessary.

I don't question the 17-year-old daughter. She sounds like a regular kid who got caught doing something she shouldn't have (although I'm sure it doesn't help that her parents never bothered to explain anything about birth control). I do have to wonder why Palin thought it was OK to go back to work three days after giving birth to a special needs baby. But according to the Mudflats blog, she and hubby just farm the kids out to be raised by other people. Whatev.

Keep in mind, people -- this woman wants schools to NOT teach sex ed, and to teach creationist theory. SCARY!!!

But most of all, I think she is just a distraction!