Palin’s Medical Records Released, Andrew Sullivan Not Satisfied
This seriously has got to stop. The McCain-Palin campaign released Sarah Palin’s medical records on Monday, accompanied by a statement from her doctor, declaring her in good health.
But former British conservative Andrew Sullivan, who has gone completely insane during this year’s campaign, is not quite satisfied: he continues to push the meme that Trig Palin is not Sarah Palin’s son.
“There is no time for any reporters to ask any questions, of course, or any time for the questions raised by the pregnancy to be aired in the press,” Sullivan writes. “We need documentation to verify the last pregnancy: the amniocentesis results with Sarah Palin’s name on them, for example, would be readily available and easy to disseminate, and would help raise awareness of Down Syndrome. So why not give us something? All we have in this literally last minute letter is Baldwin-Johnson’s name. We had that already.”
Sullivan’s post is a sure sign of things to come if John McCain would pull off an upset today. If they would win today’s election, you can be sure that Obama partisans will declare full scale war on them as never before. Even the years of George W. Bush could very well look remarkably bipartisan in comparison.
There is something very strange going on, with the political debate becoming more rather than less partisan, this even though both major parties’ nominees profess to be moderates willing to work on a bipartisan basis and with at least one of them (McCain) having a long record of actually doing so.
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I normally don’t make comments like this, but Sullivan has sent me over the edge with this stuff….
So I’m questioning whether Andrew Sullivan might have a case of AIDS related dementia. Look, it’s possible, right? And since I can’t think of any other explanation for his loss of rationality, I’m putting it out there.
It’s a serious charge that perhaps I shouldn’t make without evidence- but I’m only asking, that’s all. And he ought to agree that he can dispense of this kind of questioning so easily- just publish all of his medical records, and no one will question it further. Simple, right?
Why would he not want to do that?
Why would he not see that Palin is entitled to the same privacy from scurrilous rumors regarding her health or pregnancies??
Actually, Sullivan is on to something. As PR professional (I know, it’s an oxymoron), the timing of the release is a red flag. In PR, you release good news early so it can get coverage over a length of time. For example, publicly traded companies release good news on a Monday or Tuesday so the trade press and dailies can pick it up, contact the company for comment, and report on it fully, and the markets have time to absorb it and hopefully drive your stock higher. With any luck, you can get reporters to do follow up so you maximize coverage and positive impact on your stock. They release bad news after the markets close on Friday, so reporters have little time to seek comment before execs go home for the weekend, and hope that nobody follows up on Monday. The fact that Palin released incomplete records (which she knew was far less than what the skeptics were looking for) the evening before polls opened suggests that she doesn’t want to answer questions about what’s not in the two pages she released. But in this case, it’s not Friday and reporters aren’t going to forget about it over the weekend. Essentially, she’s thrown gas on the fire, which will just create more smoke…and where there’s smoke, there’s usually fire.
We waited two weeks for this “statement”? from Cathy Balwin Johnson, no less. How predictable. I beleiev we are being punked America, but it ain’t funny Palin.
How do we know Cathy Balwin Johnson actually made that statement? If someone can fake a pregnancy and cover it up……
From Sullivan’s column:
“We need documentation to verify the last pregnancy: the amniocentesis results with Sarah Palin’s name on them, for example, would be readily available and easy to disseminate, and would help raise awareness of Down Syndrome”
I am sooooooo reassured now that I know he simply wants to help raise awareness regarding Down’s syndrome. I was worried it was just another “witch hunt” like the repeated requests for Sen. Obama’s birth certificate or the still unfound “whitey” tape of Sen. Obama’s wife. Both of those right-wing snipe hunts were distasteful at best and despicable at worst. I mean Mr. Sullivan is eager to get the word out about Down’s Syndrome. I hear he’s even suggested joining forces with Gov. Palin to improve services for Special Needs Kids. All it would take for him to “jump into the fray” is to release all of her records. Now that’s an simple, easy and reasonable request.
We should all just calm down and appreciate how we’re all in this together and for the same reasons. Its for the kids!!!
Someone should re-assure good ole boy Sullivan that should McCain/Palin be elected, and both die in office, the U.S. is not a monarchy so Trig will not be next in line to become president. So whether or not he is Palin’s biological child is of zero relevance or interest to the masses, thank you very much.