Posted by
Always To The Right on Monday, September 01, 2008 1:13:53 PM
Since the dirty laundry’s all coming out today,
sources close to Palin tell David Brody that Palin’s husband was
arrested for DUI 22 years ago.
Update: KP was ahead of the game:
A McCain campaign official tells ABC News’ George
Stephanopoulos that McCain knew of Bristol’s pregnancy and “didn’t
believe Governor Palin should be disqualified” from the vice presidency
because of it. “If Democrats try to attack, it will backfire
spectacularly,” the official said.
Update: The more I think about it, the more I think McCain
probably did know. The timing is simply perfect to release the news:
You wouldn’t want to do it on Friday, lord knows, when she’s getting
her intro to the country, and you wouldn’t want to do it later in the
campaign when it’s closer to Election Day or even later this week when
it’d distract from her convention speech. Now’s the time to do it, when
it’ll be no higher than the third-most important story of the day.
If I’m right, then the nutroots’s smears about Palin’s own pregnancy
gave McCain an amazingly fortuitous pretext here. Now he gets to play
the victim — “we had to do it to stop those dastardly left-wing
bloggers from hurting the family” — instead of just someone making an
embarrassing admission.