This is a blatant broad-side attack on the Palins.
I’ll admit it, I didn’t read the whole thing. The Daily Mail doesn’t have the best reputation. The writer is known to have been a real ass, even moving in right next door to the Palins. That’s rather unethical. From what I read, it seemed that there was way too much hearsay, and far too little hard evidence.
What if all this is true? It shows that Palin had youthful indescretions. It shows that she and her husband had marital problems. Some couples do. Who knew?
I believe that for the most part Palin has tried to live her life in a decent manner as an adult. Nobody outside her household truly knows the full dynamics. That’s life.
What we do know since the writer deemed it advisable to make all these charges public, is that he doesn’t mind destroying reputations, making the worst types of charges on hearsay, and making a good run at destroying a marriage involving at least three kids I’m aware of.
I remember one other political figure who screwed around on his spouse constantly for upwards of twenty years that we knew of, was still doing it at the time, and the press couldn’t have cared less.
That does not excause someone on our side doing some of the same things. I’m not even sure that they did. And although they may have, the acts were far less frequent and blatant. We don’t know what the other spouse had done that might have contributed to the decision to have this indescression, if it did take place.
I don’t think people who dislike Palin should try to make hay off this.
I don’t think people who support Palin should be too dismissave and protective of her on this either.
This is not something I would herald at Sarah and Todd’s expense. It’s also something I would find rather somber, and would spend some reflective time digesting, if I were a Palin supporter.
No doubt we will know more in time.
At the moment this doesn’t change my opinion of Palin at all. I haven’t been a big supporter. I would suggest Palin’s supporters shouldn’t make any hasty changes in their attitudes toward her either.
There will be time for that as more information comes out. People are human. I wish the Palins well.
I don't mind a discussion of Palin on the issues. Her resigning as governor, for example, is open to fair disagreement among conservatives. Likewise her support of McCain in 2010.
But this rubbish from a liberal stalker who moved in next door to her? And that junk yesterday about Gardasil in Alaska when it was entirely a federal initiative - an obvious effort from a Perry spinner to draw moral equivalence and deflect Palin's criticism of Perry's chief of staff who left to lobby for Merck? Perry is the one who has to address that issue, not Palin. Whatever you think of Palin now, she has a history of taking on a corrupt GOP and corporate establishment and beating them.
Most Freepers who have been here for some time have long ago learned to access the motives of those who put forth stories as a tool for determining their potential veracity. The FReepers who don't are either willing to be duped because it fits their preconceptions or are spinners who are trying to damage the candidate/representative/person in question. Neither speaks well, yet to them it is the fault of those pointing out their failings as creating some kind of hostile enviroment, when they are the ones bringing liberal and RINO anti-conservative hostility into FR with their support of such MSM trash.
As I said earlier - if you kick a dog enough times, don't blame the dog when it eventually bites you.
Well, whether the writer is a scumbag or not doesn't matter to me given that he's not running for office.
That being said, I'm not a Palin supporter, but I could care less about this. It's just mud, some of it may be true (or not), but you simply can't base political support off unverifiable mudslinger, else the mudslingers get veto power over whom we elect.
The one irony that jumped out at me was that our current President has openly admitted to snorting coke, yet the media treats that fact as having no weight or relevance. The only virtue of mudslinging like this is that it is an opportunity to get that fact out again to contrast an unverified (and unverifiable) allegation against Palin with an acknowledged fact about Obama.
He's not quite as bulletproof as we was in 2008, and perhaps it would be worthwhile if folks were informed of facts like this that were gneerally hushed up in the media back when he was at his most godlike.