....'kay....here's some of what we know...
The McCain campaign tells us Palin was fully vetted and there have been no surprises (to him about Palin and her family.....) in what has been disclosed since McCain announced she was his VP choice.
His campaign is saying then, that he knowingly selected a relatively inexperienced woman with fringe religiously motivated convictions that she integrates into her politics, a mother with a four months old, special needs infant, and a pregnant, 17 years old, high school student daughter, as his running mate, during what he and his fellow party members/elected high officials constantly remind us is...."a time of war".
His running mate, Palin, although she claimed to not reveal her own pregnancy until March 6, 2008, when she claimed she was 7 months pregnant and governor of Alaska, chose today to issue a public announcement that her daughter, Bristol, aged 17, is five months pregnant and plans to marry the man who impregnated her.
Aside from being prompted to do so, presumably because of a 3 day wave of "internet rumors", why is she releasing the details of her daughter's pregnant state, much earlier in the pregnancy than when she chose to make her own pregnancy public? She kept her own privacy, even as governor, much longer than she chose to keep her daughter's prenancy a private matter, and her daughter is a private person, a minor, and not a celebrity or an elected high official?
Pictures of Palin's daughter posted on Mehan McCain's blog:
Palin related that she flew to Texas to give a speech, and before delivering it, she felt contractions and was leaking amniotic fluid. Although she knew she was at an advanced age for giving birth, and knew she would be delivering a baby with Down's syndrome, knew he was also premature, at that point. She chose to stay and give the speech, and then to take a flight back home on Alaska airlines, with a stop over in Seattle, and spoke several times with her physician by phone, but did specifically not seek advice as to whether to make the at least seven hours long flight to Alaska, or inform anyone with the airline about her condition. She then rode 50 miles on Alaska roads before delivering her son on April 22.
We've been exposed to reports that daughter Bristol missed between the last five to as long as eight months of school, due to a long bout with mono..... Since the new school year is just starting, she was absent from school either from last January forward, or as long as from last October.
How has the long illness affected her announced pregnancy, and was it concurrent with a portion of the pregnancy. If she is 5 months pregnant now, she must have conceived within a few weeks of the time her mother announced her own pregnancy, on March 6.
Again,,,,if the McCain campaign is telling the truth, why did they choose Palin? Can I put all of my baggage, over here, John?