Posted on 07/13/2010 3:39:21 PM PDT by Josh Painter
Guest blogging for lunatic Andrew Sullivan, disgraced former WaPo blogger David Weigel tries to talk some sense into Sully:
Trig Palin is Sarah Palin's son and it's irresponsible to suggest otherwise.Gee, Dave, ya' think?[...]
All of the evidence indicates that Trig Palin is Sarah's son, and none of it suggests otherwise. I paid close enough attention to this in 2008, and realized pretty quickly that the countervailing theories made no sense. Too many people watched Palin announce the pregnancy and saw her come along until she went into labor, prematurely, while attending a National Governors Association event in Texas. Here in Alaska, people tell me that Palin fans (who at one point made up 85-90% of Alaskans) held "baby showers" for her, and she'd drop in to thank them.
The other Trig theories seem to be based on vapor -- that she wasn't "showing" much in some photos, that her campaign was less than 1000% forthcoming when asked about it. I don't generally trust politicians, but I know the difference between a "dodge" and an answer given to ward off annoying tabloid stories. The answers on Trig were in that latter category.
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I do think that he's made a huge mistake by indulging this. Politicians suffer when they're called out on things they've done. They thrive when they're called out for things they haven't done, for stories they can call "conspiracy theories," and for stories they can file under "politics of personal destruction." Obsessing over Trig, as much as it annoys the Palins -- and I see why it does -- is one of the best ways of propping her up. It gives her fan base proof that its hero is constantly battling unfair personal attacks that the media won't debunk. It convinces them that critics focus on this nonsense because they've got nothing else to criticize Palin about. She has taken advantage of this impression.
The Trig obsession has also, I'm sad to say, damaged Andrew Sullivan's reputation.
Weigel is trying real hard to sound like the voice of reason here. But make no mistake -- he cares not one whit for the Palins, Trig or common decency. What has Weigel and others on the left with more than two functioning brain cells to rub together worried is the damage Stuck-On-Stupid Sullivan is doing to their side. And worried they should be.
Liberals are in the political minority in this country, representing only about one-fifth of the electorate. If the left can't persuade significant numbers of moderates and independents to vote with them, they'll be out of power. And the trend we've been seeing for months now is one of independents running away from the left's politics. They gave the Democrats a chance after becoming disgusted with George W. Bush Republicans who called themselves "conservatives" but spent taxpayer money like the most liberal of Democrats. But now the real Democrats have reminded independents and moderates why they bailed on the Dems back in 1980 to send the incompetent Jimmy Carter back to the peanut farm. Democrats are even more under the thumb of their more radical elements now than they were then, and independents want nothing more to do with them.
So David Weigel, who realizes all of this, is trying to reign in Sullivan in hopes of halting the rightward exodus of independents and moderates. But it's difficult to take Weigel seriously when he tells Sully to back off on Sarah Palin and her family. Dirty Dave's words ring hollow when he defended Joe McGinness and was exposed for, among other things, applying to Gov. Palin one of the filthiest of epithets, one which begins with the letters "r-a-t."
Ah, Sully's too far gone to listen to Weigel, anyway. He can't hear anything but his bong singing to him. Take it back to MSNBC where you belong, Dave.
- JP
I vote this the best thread title I’ve seen in months. ‘Dance of the Moonbats’, indeed. ;)
Why is this an issue? Why would anyone care if she was pregnant and had Trig? I don’t understand it. Have I missed something. And (especially), why are people STILL hungup over it?
Andrew Sullivan thinks that Trig isn’t her baby, that the baby belongs to someone else, maybe her daughter, she is a sinister, lying, sneaky so-an-so, blah blah blah. Nutcase ravings, and now nutcase ravings rebuttal.
Anyone that uses the term “countervailing theories” is a pompous moron.
Yes, but.. what does that say about her genetic makeup?
Sullivan and Weigel would pal around together.
Secondly, rarely does a young woman give birth to a Down's Syndrome baby. They are mostly born to extremely mature (later in life) mother than a younger one.
Not a thing. It usually occurs from a chromosome problem in the egg. It's my understanding that a woman is born with all the eggs she will ever produce in her life and as she ages, her eggs can deteriorate. However, I read a couple of years ago that scientists have now linked Down's Syndrome to older sperm, too, and in that case, the sperm are new, but somehow chromosomes can change.
Indeed, tendentiously bumptious, what?
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