Truth or Lie, Palin Fails Trig Test Either Way

Governor Sarah Palin's selection as John McCain's running mate was a gift from Heaven to Barack Obama. Honestly. An disconnected, elitist warhawk with a bad temper and a worse health record chooses a backwater neophyte as his running mate. If Obama and Biden are a couple of hungry wolves, Palin is a little lost lamb.

But now with increasing speculation (and, if not credence, at least plausability) to the rumor than little Trig Palin, the WannaVeep's youngest child, actually is the fruit of her daughter Bristol's womb, and not her own, the lamb may very well be sacrificed.

This is the stuff of novels, and so no matter how far-fetched it may appear, bear with me a moment. What I am about to report are the official story. I won't even address the speculation as to the reasons:

1. Gov. Palin's eldest daughter, Bristol, was pulled from school for mononucleosis. For at least five months, maybe longer, as the Governor prepared to give birth.

2. Gov. Palin announced on March 5, 2008 that she was due to give birth in mid-May, making her, according to her own accounts at the time of the announcement, seven months pregnant.

3. At the time of the announcement, staffers and onlookers were shocked. The general concensus: nobody cold tell Gov. Palin was pregnant. At seven months.

4. Video is available for public access that shows Gov. Palin walking briskly, in high heels and tight clothing, not looking the slightest bit pregnant, in February. The day after the announcement, video clips show her looking considerably heavier than the day before. In one video clip she discusses how much she likes running in the hills of Juneau "because it really shreds your guts."

5. According to Gov. Palin's own account, her water broke April 17, 2008, the day she was to give the keynote address at an energy conference in Dallas. She went on, and gave the speech, leaking amniotic fluid.

6. It is a well-known medical fact that leakage of amniotic fluid puts a baby in distress and leaves the chld at a greater risk for infection.

7. After the speech, Gov. Palin left DFW on a commercial flight on Alaska Airlines, and flew back to Anchorage, via a layover in Seattle. The trip was a minimum of nine hours, and could have been as many as twelve. Flight personnel have stated the Governor never appeared to be in any distress, nor was her pregnancy even evident.

8. From Anchorage, it was off to her hometown of Wasilla, to the small Mat-Su Regional Medical Center, 45 miles away, where she gave birth. The Mat-Su facility has no NICU. She drove over an hour to Wasilla past two regional facilities that have NICU and proper staff to deal with premature baby issues and Down Syndrome neonatal complications.

9. Gov. Palin's doctor, Dr. Cathy Baldwin-Johnson-- who isn't in fact an obstetrician, but a family practicioner-- broke the news to her in December that her child would have Down's Syndrome. This, combined with her age (44), would indicate that the Governor knew her pregnancy was high-risk.

10. She finally gave birth to Trig 30 hours or so after her water broke, which is a dangerous delay.

Does this even sound like the plausible actions of a woman who's had four kids? A 44-year-old who is involved in a high-risk pregnancy? A woman who gives a damn about the life growing inside her?

Nope. So the possible explanations are very simple.

1. If the child is Bristol's, it's a world-class cover-up scandal. Either the life in question wasn't growing inside of her, but perhaps her eldest daughter, which would be a colossal embarrassment for a sitting Governor known for Christian evangelical conservatism and preaching abstinence as the only acceptable form of birth control.... or....

2. If the child is Sarah's, she was reckless with its health-- flying all over North America with her water broken, risking infection, putting the child in distress, and worse. She placed the importance of a political speech over the welfare of an unborn, premature baby when she was 44 years old-- high risk to begin with.

This is not about Down's, or abortion, or family values, or abstinence, or a mother's love, no matter how they try to spin it when this story hits the mainstream media. This is about politics.

Either way, she's an abomination: a deceitful manipulator, or a woman who uses her own children (or grandchildren) for personal gain. She deserves the crucifixion that's coming to her.