The Enquirer has put out a Palin “divorce” story each year. Nothing unique about that. They’ve published all sorts of disproven junk on her and her family. Also, the ludicrous content in the McGinniss book was not ‘new’ to that time-frame either, as I read a thread covering it many months prior over at the C4P site. So neither of these things would have innately blindsided Palin after Indianola.
Where it might have had an effect is in that Palin could see that the media would happily peddle any lie, smear and innuendo they could to turn her potential campaign into a big sickening circus, making her odds all but impossible. Couple that with the GOP-E siding with their media buds, hacking away at her. And, although I believe she wanted to run, her MAIN goal was to ensure above all that Obama was removed from the presidency.
Mcguiness has no crediblity at all, anybody that dabbles in Trig-trutherism doesn’t. Besides none of it fits in with what college roommates recall about her. She was pretty stait-laced, and if a person was going to play it would be away at college not back at home with her guy around- not unless she was drunk or roofied. I don’t think Mcguiness even dared make direct claims, just innuendo, afraid of libel suits. As far as the divorce stories, have you ever seen her and Todd together? Those glances, etc. that’s no playacting.
On a local interview she mentioned her kids, Piper’s innocence, and i think a couple of them didn’t really want her to run. Her brother over on C4P said that she was respecting her family’s wishes. Later in an interview Todd said he was glad that she “sat this one out.”