"Now that President Obama has released his full birth certificate–providing the proof that the right has always demanded to rebut one of their own conspiracy theories–we think it is reasonable to ask Palin to provide the (simple) proof to back up her own story.
It's true that, right now, Palin is just a private citizen, but she allegedly gave birth to Trig while governor of Alaska and then advanced the Trig story during her campaign for Vice President of the United States. And the possibility that a Governor and Vice Presidential candidate defrauded the nation is certainly worth investigating, even if only to put it to rest.
If Palin decides to actually run for President in 2012, we think she will be forced to provide proof of her story, as the media is not likely to be so easily cowed this time around," – Henry Blodget.
I wish I could be so sure.
But remember the key precedents. Palin's allies demanded in her first race that her opponent, John Stein, produce his marriage license to prove he was married, because his wife retained her maiden name. They then claimed, once he produced it, that he could have forged it. Palin called on Trump to keep on digging to get more details of Obama's birth certificate. She has already said in public that she has produced the medical records proving Trig's maternity, and so obviously has no principled reason to withhold them. In Frank Bailey's book, she is revealed as being willing to talk to the press to kill off the persistent rumors of a hoax pregnancy, so, again, she has shown she is willing to do so in principle, as anyone with nothing to hide and with a mountain of medical records would do.
I can't see how she can run without disposing of this story for good and all, as any sane person would have three years ago, as her former close aide, Frank Bailey concedes. But be assured: the mainstream media will be her dogged allies in protecting her from setting the record straight. And the more liberal the source, the more emphatic they will be about not going there. Why? Because they now see this – correctly – as a game of chicken, in which the journalists have as much to lose as the candidate. And if there is anything to this story, it will be framed as another skirmish between the MSM and a good, Christian mother. She has set up that narrative already, because, if she does have something to hide, it is her only chance.
Part of me had hoped this would all go away, because, as literally everyone in DC assured me, she was never going to run for president. But it won't. Because she won't. And they seem as clueless as ever about her potential.
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