Juno in Juneau?

Fighting Hellfish wrote:

I wonder if he really knew, or if they're just saying that know, so he doesn't look stupid. i read a report yesterday that said she wasn't vetted at all. A reporter called one of Alaska's major newspapers, looking for all the articles they have on her, since their archives are not online. the woman at the paper told the reprter that he was the first person to call and request their archives. Ever

Apparently, McCain wanted his friend Joe Lieberman to be his veep. But the conservatives would have none of that. In fact, Karl Rove apparently called Lieberman personally and basically begged him to turn McCain down if the offer was made.So Palin was plan B... which is probably why nobody did a very thorough job of vetting her.

Right now, I suspect McCain is calling Karl Rove on the phone saying "I told you so."

digster wrote:

Politically, I don't really see this having any impact. Social conservatives are not going to bolt to Obama.

Probably not, but they might well stay home on Tuesday. Either way, mission accomplished.

jeffbr wrote:

So just to be clear, the DailyKOS and Huffingtonpost were full of shit on this issue, right?

jeffbr wrote:

So just to be clear, the DailyKOS and Huffingtonpost were full of shit on this issue, right?

Not necessarily. This whole thing is just too weird, right now. Too many things just don't add up on too many different levels. And the timing of this latest revelation seems to fall into the "how convenient" category.

Let's pull out all the paranoia stops here for a minute and think about this scenario.

1.) Daily KOS, et. al were spot on accurate. In reality, Sara Palin covering for her pregnant daughter by claiming Trig as her own isn't really all that shocking. I think it would've been more common, say, 50 years ago. Except, that back then it would've meant sending the unwed mother away to "boarding school" and later giving the child up for adoption. If Sara Palin had quietly remained governor of Alaska, she probably could've kept up the charade for quite some time. But apparently, her ambition got the best of her.

2.) Palin was, in fact, NOT McCain's top pick for VP. It was Joe Lieberman. But this angered the GOP insiders on too many levels, so McCain had to quickly find an alternate candidate. Which is why Sara Palin was never properly vetted. How anybody came up with her is beyond me... unless every other potential woman turned down the offer. Joe Lieberman wouldn't have needed to go through all that much vetting, anyway. He did that eight years ago.

3.) Due to the poor vetting procedure, McCain probably didn't know all the inside details about Trig and mistakenly took Sara Palin at face value.

4.) Once this story, which actually began several months ago in Alaska, began to get wings on a national level, there needed to a quick out to make the problem go away. It would've been perfectly understandable to keep Trig out of the campaign spotlight. Hell, who wants to take an infant campaigning... that's what nanny's are for. But keeping Bristol out of the spotlight would've been more problematic. And if this whole story hadn't come out now, it would've come out eventually... probably at a far less opportune time. Announcing *now* that Bristol is pregnant, etc., etc., allows the family a perfect opportunity to send her back to Alaska and away from the media. They do this, fully expecting McCain to lose and that this will all be over in 2 months.

5.) In the next few days (probably in the next 24 hours or so to avoid convention problems), Sara Palin announces that "due to family issues" she is withdrawing from the VP candidacy and that she asks for privacy during this difficult time.

6.) McCain says "I told you so" and announces Joe Lieberman as his vice president.