Sara Palin is Trig's Mother? Why Doesn't She Just Prove It?

I realize that as Americans we are entitled to a certain amount if privacy. No matter what certain Supreme Court justices might say, the right to privacy is given to us all.
So, I am a bit hesitant to make a big deal out of Sarah Palin’s “situation” regarding her kid and her kid’s kid. I think Barack Obama largely had it right when he said that families are “off-limits.” In an ideal world families WOULD be off limits. But we don’t always make the world we live in and I have some serious questions that Palin’s meteoric elevation only highlight. These issues aren’t going away anytime soon.

First, I have a real problem with this rumor about Sarah Palin actually being Trig Palin’s grandmother who somehow faked the pregnancy so as to avoid the shame of having a daughter having a baby out of wedlock. This story is, truly, something out of “Desperate Housewives.” The story feels like a made-up rumor and I really tend to believe that Sarah Palin gave birth to Trig Palin several months ago. I also have a real hard time believing that Palin hid this from McCain and that McCain was THAT stupid as to go with her in light of that situation. She was never taken all that seriously as a candidate until Friday of last week, so if she really was Trig’s grandmother, wouldn’t she have just declined the vice-presidency?

All of that being said, it strikes me that Sarah Palin could pretty easily put these rumors to rest very quickly and I wonder why she doesn’t do that. McCain has already set the precedent of allowing the press access to his medical records so that he could demonstrate just how healthy he is. Why doesn’t Sarah Palin shut up all the rumor-mongering right now by releasing her OB-GYN records from her pregnancy? I understand that she doesn’t HAVE to do this and that she does have a right to her privacy, but what does she have to fear? Could it be that she just wants to protect her privacy as a matter of course, even if she has nothing to hide or fear? If so, I wonder how she will square this with what will almost certain wind up as supporting telcom immunity in the newest FISA legislation?

I’d also like to say a bit about the whole “families are off-limits” thing. How is it that Sarah Palin can advocate a policy (abstinence-only sex “education”) when she can’t even make it work in her own house? I’m not saying that Bristol Palin deserves to h ave her dirty laundry searched by reporters, but I do think that between bragging about her son’s upcoming deployment to Iraq and having a knocked-up daughter despite the fact that she taught Bristol that the best way to prevent pregnancy is to keep her legs closed, she has put her family in play.

You would think that, at some point I’d stop being amazed by right-wing hypocrisy, but I still can’t get over it. The right-wing that so desperately wants this campaign to NOT be about the candidate’s families is the same party that had both Rush Limbaugh and JOHN FUCKING MCCAIN make vicious brutal fun of a pre-teen Chelsea Clinton for little more than her looks. But now we can’t talk about families? Oh. OK, I get it.

Anyway, Governor Palin, I tend to believe you. I think you really are Trig’s biological mother. But since you support the right of the government to spy on me with impunity, since you advocate abstinence as sex ed and since you can put this issue to rest almost immediately (except with a few true crackpot conspiracy theorists), why don’t you just let me see your medical records. Prove to me that you carried Trig to term in your own uterus. After all, what do you have to be afraid of?