So what did Palin do? Well, what she did here was toss a rhetorical bone to the 25-30% of the country which is very much interested in this birth certificate question, while not nearly embracing the theory itself. She offered, in other words, a sort of vague stab at consensus -- let's agree that these questions are fair game and punt on the more divisive question of whether the theory has any merit -- which is what what people like David Frum are always urging when it comes to appeasing moderates.Ace has a lot more to say on this, and it's worth the read... here.
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If you didn't like Sarah Palin's answer -- because it wasn't strong enough in either direction -- get ready for a lot of disappointment, because Sarah Palin's answer is going to be the basic default generic answer for almost all politicians on the right.
- JP
I agree with Palin 100%. Three days after McCain announced that Sarah was his running mate, the kooks over at the Daily Kos were the first to plant the paternity question of Trigg Palin. This is why I say liberals are such hypocrites. They don't consider themselves "birthers" when they obsessed over whether Sarah was the mother of Trigg, but they call people who are asking the question to Obama's birth place as the "birthers".
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