Breaking! McCain to Revoke Palin Nomination

You are an idiot in all of your identities.

Is this another one of Roxxxanne's?

While you maintain it within a single identity, Bill.

Palin is the one with the identity problem as she faked her pregnancy to cover up her 16 year-old's pregnancy.

Palin is the one with the identity problem as she faked her pregnancy to cover up her 16 year-old's pregnancy.

Secret's out: Palin pregnant

SEVEN MONTHS ALONG: Even her staff was unaware that the first family was expecting a fifth child.

By WESLEY LOY
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Published: March 6th, 2008 12:02 AM
Last Modified: March 6th, 2008 03:38 PM

JUNEAU -- Gov. Sarah Palin shocked and awed just about everybody around the Capitol on Wednesday when she announced she's expecting her fifth child.

"I thought it was becoming obvious," Gov. Sarah Palin said. "You know, clothes getting snugger and snugger."




The governor, who recently turned 44, told a handful of reporters as she was leaving work to expect a new member of the first family, then headed to a reception at the Baranof Hotel to feast on king crab.

Palin said she's already about seven months along, with the baby due to arrive in mid-May.

That the pregnancy is so advanced astonished all who heard the news. The governor, a runner who's always been trim, simply doesn't look pregnant.

Even close members of her staff said they only learned this week their boss was expecting.

"I thought it was becoming obvious," Palin said. "You know, clothes getting snugger and snugger."

But people just couldn't believe the news.

"Really? No!" said Bethel state Rep. Mary Nelson, who is close to giving birth herself.

"It's wonderful. She's very well-disguised," said Senate President Lyda Green, a mother of three who has sometimes sparred with Palin politically. "When I was five months pregnant, there was absolutely no question that I was with child."

Having a baby as governor has happened elsewhere, but it's rare. The former acting governor of Massachusetts, Jane Swift, in 2001 was the first governor in office to give birth when she delivered twin girls.

Palin beamed as lawmakers, Cabinet members and others came by to congratulate her at the Baranof reception, a legislative event Kodiak officials sponsor annually.

Her husband, Todd, was there holding the couple's sleepy 6-year-old daughter Piper in his arms.

Palin said she's not aiming to take any time off from her job as governor, assuming all goes well with the pregnancy. She said when she had Piper -- Palin was mayor of Wasilla at the time -- the baby was born on a Monday and she returned to the office on Tuesday.

"I've always been a believer that God's not going to give us anything that we cannot handle," Palin said.

Todd Palin, a BP oil field worker currently on leave from his job, said he's thrilled to be headed toward five-time fatherhood.

"I'm really excited," he said. "Every child you get from God. The more the merrier."

Aside from Piper, the Palins have three other children: Track, 18, serving in the U.S. Army at Fort Wainwright in Fairbanks; Bristol, 17, a high school junior; and Willow, 13.

Palin, a Republican, was elected as Alaska's first female governor in 2006 and took office in December of that year.

She's kept a hectic schedule in recent days, traveling last week to the National Governors Association conference in Washington, D.C., followed by a trip to Los Angeles on Monday for a Newsweek magazine conference also featuring Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano. The magazine profiled the two in its Oct. 15 "Women & Power" issue.

With Palin riding extraordinarily high popularity ratings, pundits have mentioned her as a potential vice presidential candidate. But she said Wednesday night she's "not pursuing or perpetuating it," adding, "I have no desire to leave my job at all as governor."

Palin said she decided to reveal the pregnancy after she felt the signs were giving her away, like doing less running this winter and being "ravenously hungry."

She's known as a fashion plate, but said she hasn't been dressing differently to cover her barely perceptible bulge.

Palin noted another Alaska governor welcomed a new baby to his family while in office -- Mike Stepovich, who served as territorial governor in the late 1950s.

Having kids and serving as governor are entirely compatible, she said.

"To any critics who say a woman can't think and work and carry a baby at the same time, I'd just like to escort that Neanderthal back to the cave," Palin said.

Then the expectant governor turned to greet more well-wishers.

Wait til you hear how they faked the birth!

Coming soon!

BTW McInsane doesn't know yet that he will have to revoke his pick. OTOH she can just bow out due to "family issues."

you are an idiot...16 year olds do not have down's kids, however 44 year olds very often do...

Palin Probe Could Mean Election-Eve Trouble for McCain
By Kate Klonick and Zachary Roth - August 29, 2008, 6:39PM

It looks like John McCain's new running mate, Sarah Palin, could be hit with some decidedly negative PR at the worst possible time. The Alaska legislature's investigation of whether Governor Palin improperly fired a state employee is scheduled to wrap up and release its findings just days before the November election.

The firing is at the center of a scandal that has largely remained confined to the Alaska press, but is now likely to become a national story in the wake of Palin's selection -- one that could conceivably have an impact on the presidential race.

As it happens, we've been tracking the story closely here at TPMmuckraker.

The scandal concerns allegations that Palin's office improperly fired the state's public safety commissioner because he refused to remove Palin's ex-brother-in-law from his job as a state trooper after his bitter divorce from Palin's sister. In addition to the legislature's investigation, the Alaska attorney general is also looking into the matter.

Palin had at first denied that her office had a hand in pushing to have the trooper fired, but was forced to retract those denials when taped evidence emerged that a staffer in her office was involved.

If the investigation finds that her personal involvement was more extensive than she has admitted, it could create some damaging headlines for the McCain campaign at the worst possible moment.

Here's a recap of the story:

The scandal began on July 11, when Public Safety Commissioner Walt Monegan was removed from his post with little explanation, a move whose abruptness quickly raised questions in Alaska. A few days later, Monegan decided to blow the whistle, and came forward to tell local media that he had been dismissed because he refused to fire trooper Mike Wooten, the ex-husband of Palin's sister, after having been pressured to do so by aides to Palin. (Monegan's replacement, former Kenai Chief of Police Chuck Kopp was only lasted two weeks on the job once past complaints of sexual harassment from 2005 were publicized.)

Critics pointed out that the effort to fire the trooper might have been directly related to the fact that Palin's family had a longstanding grievances with Wooten. In an internal state police investigation in 2005, Palin herself had accused Wooten of threatening to harm her father during the breakup of her sister's marriage. (The Palins claimed, among other things, that Wooten had used a taser on his 10-year-old stepson, and shot a moose without a permit.)

Since Monegan made his allegations, Palin has denied that she personally had a role in the effort to fire Wooten. On July 28, the state legislative council, a bipartisan panel of senators and representatives, appointed a special commission to probe the matter.

Her backtrack on her office's role was prompted by the preliminary findings of a separate ongoing investigation into the matter by the state Attorney General, launched on August 4, that she herself put into motion. At a press conference at which Palin revealed some of that investigation's finding, she acknowledged that in February, state troopers had taped a phone call from Frank Bailey, Palin's director of boards and commissions, whom she appointed in August 2007, in which Bailey appeared to push for the firing of Wooten on Palin's behalf.

In the call, Bailey appeared to say that Palin and her husband were frustrated that Wooten still had his job. "The Palins can't figure out why nothing's going on," Bailey said in the recorded phone call. "Todd and Sarah are scratching their heads ... 'Why is this guy representing the department, he's a horrible recruiting tool.' You know? So from their perspective everybody's protecting him."

The investigation could be particularly poorly timed for the GOP. Steve Branchflower, a former state prosecutor who is conducting the investigation, has a three-month contract for his work, which started August 1, and will end October 31, according to Alaska State Senate Judiciary Committee chair, Hollis French (D), who is overseeing the probe. French told TPMmuckraker that he expects Branchflower to release his report in the days before the November 4th presidential election.

A spokeswoman for Palin told TPMmuckraker that the governor's office would be fully cooperating with Branchflower.

Palin won the governor's office in 2006 as a squeaky clean reformer. "She portrayed herself as an open-government, ethical person," Rep. Mike Doogan, a Democratic state lawmaker, told TPMmuckraker. "You can see the obvious problem." He added: "These things don't help her [politically]."

And they may not help John McCain either.

(ed.note: The original version of this post incorrectly stated that the state legislature was in Democratic hands and ordered the probe of Monegan's firing. In fact, the senate is under the control of a coalition of Democratic and dissident Republican lawmakers and the House of Republicans. The state legislative council, which ordered the probe, is a bipartisan panel made up of members of both bodies.)

You are the idiot, I personally have known two teenage girls who had Down babies. Age of the mother merely increases the risks.

Here is the risk chart.

This can all can be put to rest when the proven liar Ms Palin releases her medical records. Next time, McCain will vet his running mate, speaking of idiots.

Palin's first lie as VP candidate

(she has lied repeatedly as Governor which I will document later)

This woman will not withstand a week's worth of scrutiny. McCain doesn't even know her having only met her once before Thursday.

The liberal blogosphere is ecstatic over this pick. This is the last nail in the coffin of the McCain candidacy.

Apparently, this Lady is of great concern to the democrats. The dumb statements made by you only bring that fear out.

The fact you dopes are so scared of her makes me think McCain made a great pick

firedoglake.com

“McCain Campaign Sending Investigators to Alaska to Check Into Palin’s Troopergate: Did these idiots not vet her?”

A very reliable source overheard Republican spokesperson McHugh Pierre state TODAY that he had spoken to the McCain Campaign. They are coming to Alaska tomorrow to check out the "Troopergate" investigation.

As she points out, this rather suggests that the campaign didn't vet her properly. Troopergage has been ongoing for some time, even a cursory Google search would have told them they had a problem.

So much for either "judgement" or, given McCain's inability to use the web, his staff choices. Who does he have advising him, and is it they who are incompetent, or did they warn him and he ignored them? Either way it's not so much Palin whose fitness is in question, it's the man who made the decision to make her his running mate: John McCain

Keep hope alive!

Commentators are nearly ananimous in the view that, at best, this was a Hail Mary pass. (To me, it is suicidal) and I am not the only one who thinks she won't withstand a week's worth of scrutiny.





Personally, I hope Babygate and Troopergate don't result in the end of her candidacy. McCain won't win with her on the ticket.

Getting back to babygate, five weeks after making the announcement that she was "about seven months pregnant" and not showing, her water broke on April 18 while at a governor's conference in Dallas. Rather than go to a hospital, she boarded an Alaska Air jet to Anchorage. What is sketchy is what happened afterward. Did she have the baby in flight? What we do know is that a spokesperson announced the birth of the six-pound "Trig" and that he had some sort of condition that presented a "challenge." She could easily put this all to rest by releasing her medical records.

This is all very bizarre and sounds like a bad soap opera but it appears to me that the talk that the baby was actually born to her 16 year-old unwed daughter are true . I generally don't believe in these wild conspiracy theories but my intuition tells me this may be indeed a fact.

McCain did not vet her. That is clear. This woman appears to me, quite frankly, imbalanced. (Just like McCain) She wants creationism taught in schools, she doesn't believe in the science of global warming, she is against stem cell research, she is anti-choice yet claims to be a "feminist." She lied about her support of the bridge to nowhere project. She used the power of her office to try to get her ex-brother-in-law fired, then fired the uncooperative Public Safety Commissioner and replaced him with a known sexual harasser. Yep, she's a Republican, all right and right-wing nutjob.

More reaction, Dan Gerstein



Here is a link to the report of the birth of "Trig"

http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/story/380134.html

She doesn't think that she could get better care in Dallas (which BTW has some of the best hospitals in the US) than on a flight to Anchorage or in Anchorage? I don't want a person with incredible lack of judgment "a heartbeat away." Of course, I don't believe this cover story for a second.

I bet! It would be the first time in human history that a woman who wasn't pregnant gave birth to a baby.

Any pics of the 16 yr old daughter during her alleged pregnancy?

Of course not. And the picture of Palin at "seven months" has been scrubbed from an official website. I will look for the picture.

This family photo was taken when Palin was supposedly 5 months pregnant. It is Palin's daughter who looks pregnant.

The state of Alaska website has since taken down photos of the Palin family.

This photo was taken on Super Tuesday. Palin would have been a full six months pregnant.