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Politicians mortify me. My initial reaction to the news of McCain's pick was: How mortifying. So I was just going to remain silently mortified until I could discern or events proved out whether this is just some kind of joke. Then someone emailed me the bit about her position on polar bears. I'm used to the rest, hateful as it is, but the polar bear thing was just too much. It was going to dawn on me because I've already mentioned about Alaska suing to delist the polar bear, but I was in my zone, my hard won zen slot, until then. I was settling back down when all this baby rumor stuff started in. Linked is the most comprehensive accounting I've seen, and Danny thought to Google for some context. Trig Palin is Mrs. Mindless Glass Ceiling Plasterer's grandson.

My big question is: Did she go so far as to get a fraudulent birth certificate?

If this were 1950, I'd admire her aplomb, but, well, it's not. So I'm mortified. This is all about Bristol Palin not being allowed to disgrace her mom... and I think the pictures of her pretty obviously pregnantly smiling with Mom and Dad and siblings mean that Bristol hadn't mentioned it yet, or Governor Palin wasn't going to be a new mom until she caught wind of maybe going to be considered for the VP slot. Just guessing... but, really, if you're going to defy gravity to appear to be giving birth to your daughter's child, isn't it optimal she not be photographed in clingy tops and dresses, especially not right next to your fairly obviously not pregnant visage, for the duration? And maybe you could forgo the heels in the snow bit until after you "deliver"? I was 44 once, Sarah, and the story of your pregnancy and delivery and swift return to gubernatorial vigor is outright bullshit.

Just sayin'.

I can't express the vastness of the pressure drop from this mortification. Isn't that what makes a hurricane? Yes. I think so. A sudden drop in pressure amid gathering thunderheads. This was quite transcendentally unacceptable enough on its face, with all her little scandals and incompetence and creature-extinctifying avarice, without this crap sending it clear to the moon idiotic.

The lethally ridiculous bloom like algae across the face of planet earth, sucking out all our air.