I wonder how your family would appear under the same media scrutiny.....don't throw stones.
Sadly that does seem to be their leaning.
Charles Murray has written extensively on working class whites, as well as other races, being hurt most by the social liberalism of upper classes. While the upper classes still have very much intact families, raising their children in an environment of stability, the working class has increasing difficulty in forming and keeping steady marital and family units, and is generally ridden with greater dysfunction throughout.
Palin’s children so far seem to be on something of that sort of trajectory.
Unfortunately, that's precisely the problem, and why, IMHO, it would be extremely difficult for Palin to make it through a full election cycle and win the Presidency. She recognized this too, which is why she hasn't run to date. I've never met or been exposed to a ‘perfect’ family, or one in which there weren't some skeletons that became apparent over time. That said, if the media doesn't like you, and your skeletons are readily visible, they will use them against you. My skin would definitely not be thick enough to deal with it.