Babygate: Sarah Palin’s pro-life nightmare?
A bizarre but fairly fleshed-out conspiracy theory about Sarah Palin’s son, Trig, seems to be raging across the political blogosphere. The theory goes a little something like this: Bristol Palin, teenage and totally not married daughter of Governor Palin, gets pregnant. She disappears from school for several months with ‘mono’. Sarah, meanwhile, looking as svelte as ever in stark contrast to photos of her other pregnancies, announces that surprise, she’s 7 months pregnant! Under weird circumstances, including a protracted cross-continental flight after her water breaks, Sarah apparently gives birth to Trig. The hospital where he’s born doesn’t list him as entering the world that day, and the doctor that ‘delivered’ him has received a few tasty political appointments from the Goverrnor.
Here are Daily Kos’ video and pics, in which the Governor seriously doesn’t look pregant, and her daughter Bristol kind of does.
I don’t know if this theory is true - but the top story on CNN.com right now is that Bristol Palin is pregnant, and will keep the baby and marry the father. Is Trig going to be mysteriously misplaced and reincarnated as the Governor’s grandson?
If you check out the pictures and start to think something is rotten in the state of Alaska, I don’t blame you. If the Governor concocted this massive lie to hide her daughter’s indiscretion, the hypocrisy is pretty painful: Palin, a confirmed Jesus freak, can’t live up to the standards she espouses. This is a fundamental flaw from Jim Bakker to Ted Haggard - the inhuman celibacy standards offered by religion are at odds with nature, and to try to live (or say you’re living) otherwise is typically to set yourself up for a giant ‘moral’ failure.
If this crazy cover-up is true, the Palins missed a real political opportunity to confirm their commitment to pro-life, family values, and forgiveness. Why not spin it that their family is rallying around a teen pregnancy that the Lord wants to see come to term?
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