and
Were you born in the United States of America as proscribed in the Constitution?
are somehow equivalent?
I was trying to provide an analogy that might illustrate the principle that there are some questions that you have a RIGHT to ask, but that you should NOT ask.
Sarah Palin gave an example, citing the questions she was asked, asking her to prove trig was her son. Sure, they had the RIGHT to ask her, but the question was not "right".
I was just trying to come up with other examples that might clearly illustrate the point. It's not easy though, because almost EVERY question asked will have some supporters.
Sarah Palin seems to equate people asking about the birth certificate to left-wingers asking her to prove trig was her son. That's her words, not mine:
Voters have every right to ask candidates for information if they so choose. I’ve pointed out that it was seemingly fair game during the 2008 election for many on the left to badger my doctor and lawyer for proof that Trig is in fact my child. Conspiracy-minded reporters and voters had a right to ask... which they have repeatedly. But at no point – not during the campaign, and not during recent interviews – have I asked the president to produce his birth certificate or suggested that he was not born in the United States.
Oh, but for the record, I don’t think she REALLY meant to equate those; I think she was just trying to explain her comments from the night before, and may have overshot in the other direction.
She clearly has no interest in the birth certificate question, but she also clearly doesn’t want to dismiss the “birth certificate questioners” out of hand, as so many of them are her strongest supporters.