Slouching toward Andronico's: "Sarah Palin is Lying"

When we sent Sarah Palin's strange back stories round the block just one more time yesterday we actually missed out the biggest question of all. But Berkeley Blogger Leigh Bailey had it alright. She begins:

Okay, let's break this down: 1. Upon being accused by the Daily Kos of NOT being the mother of 4-month-old Trig, and accused of covering for her then 16-year-old daughter by claiming the child as her own, VP candidate Sarah Palin responds NOT by releasing run-of-the-mill medical records which would name the obstetrician, the pediatrician, the on-call anesthesiologist, the nurses -- in short, records that would name the dozen or so people who would have witnessed and could attest to the truthfulness of Palin's assertion that she did, in fact, give birth to Palin on April whatever, and St. Whatever Hospital in Wherever, Alaska.

Nope. To prove she is Trig's mother, she makes a public statement that, in effect, only serves to make it "impossible" that her daughter Bristol is Trig's mother, by asserting that Bristol is "five months' pregnant," making it "physically impossible" that Bristol is Trig's mother.

And after careful discussion of the other outstanding questions that we too raised Leigh concludes:

Mark my words, one of three things is going to happen post-convention, and none of them are good for the McCain campaign:

1. Palin will drop out of the race without acknowledging maternity of Trig and cite the "pressures of preserving her family's privacy and integrity during a trying time" as reasons.
2. Palin will admit to the subterfuge and drop out of the race citing protection of her daughter as her motive, and then promptly agreed to an exclusive sit-down with Barbara Walters to give the "Palin side of the story."
3. Palin will continue to lie, until demands for irrefutable proof of her maternity overwhelm the campaign. She'll either produce, or she'll opt for No. 1, or 2.

Okay, once again because I'm not sure how clearly I've made the point: When faced with the political obligation to verify one's own maternity of a child, why would anyone incorporate the medically and factually irrelevant fact of their under-aged (sic) daughter's unwed pregnancy as proof if they had ANYTHING ELSE to offer?

It has to be hats off too for the Guardian's Oliver Burkeman who has found Bristol Palin's beau's 30-second "escalator script":

· If common decency will not prevent the tabloid media from digging into the personal lives of Bristol Palin and her boyfriend, the father of her child, perhaps these excerpts from the boyfriend's Myspace page will do the trick instead. "I'm a fuckin' redneck who likes to snowboard and ride dirt bikes," he explains. "I like to go camping and hang out with the boys, do some fishing, shoot some shit and just fuckin' chillin' I guess ... Ya fuck with me, I'll kick your ass."

Here's the "sound off" column in Sarah Palin's local paper and their current poll is above left. Top is a picture of the Deliverance-stylee bow and arrow elk hunter Levi Johnson. Sadly Bristol's fates picked skate bum and for that matter hockey bum and college drop out Levi Johnston (above right) as her life partner.