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For instance, the "facts" of Trig were put front and center at the time of the announcement. Therefore, they are an issue because she made it one. When she's doing that to appear to stand for "family values" and the truth of her family's life is that of most people, rather than an ideal that can preach, the ploy deserves to be knocked down.
Republicans stand from a holier-than-thou position till they get caught with what they do in secret--which is nearly always poetically opposite to their public stands--at which point they try to claim they're just as "weak" as everyone else and so forth.
They use the position they pretend to in order to deny a great deal to the rest of us. They should not be allowed that power.
And it was Sarah Palin who did her family a disservice by so blithely agreeing to become McCain's running mate.
