It will burn just fine on its own. If there's any truth it WILL come out. I can only hope that it is true. I could care less what brings these people and their corrupt party down, as long as they lose and lose very badly.

You are quoting the National Enquirer?

Sir, have you not one shred of decency?

/pause

SIR! Is there not one IOTA of Journalistic Integrity in that Thing which writes these columns?

/thanks, alex, thanks for the op.

Apparently the Alaskan court with jurisdiction has denied the request to seal the file.

You can take the trash out of the trailer, but you cannot take the trailer out of the trash.

The next shoe is gonna be that ol' Todd, that lovable First Dude, will be involved in either smuggling (what do they do on the fishing boats, anyway), gun-running, or bootlegging.

1. "(The article isn't online, so no link, sorry -- the Enquirer sent me a PDF copy.)" SURE you didn't buy a copy of the Enquirer Mr. Koppelman! haha, busted!

2. Even though intelligent people will dismiss it, coming from the Enquirer, the fact is the kind of people who would buy the Enquirer AND believe the stories are the same people who would vote for McCain. So even if untrue, could be damaging. I'm sure Obama the secret muslim terrorist, sympathizes with her.

One might think there's a story in the fact that Track Palin was born April 20, 1989, less than eight months after Sarah and Todd eloped on August 29, 1988.

Maybe Track is named for the place he was conceived.

But they sure loved them when they were digging dirt on Edwards.

I think they need to have their hypocrisy algorithm tuned down a bit.

In otherwords, it might be tasty, but it's hardly nutrious for the Obama campaign.

Look, lots of women fuck around on their husband, lots of women raise girls who get knocked up, the people normally incharge of wagging their fingers on this, the religious right, and deemed her their darling, and will forgive her anything.

A few moments of "I have Sinned" and she's fully rehabilitated in their eyes.

So, you know what, like the Edwards story it's probably true, but it's not going to hurt her, really any more than Edwards' scandel hurt him (he lost for other unrelated issues).

So give it a rest. Let's focus on her voting record and public statements for scandal. We don't need to go into anyone's private life.

If it ain't gay, or illegal, the republicans simply don't have sex scandals, they have moments of weekness. It's not fair, but it is the way of the world.

doesn't refer to her point guard skills.

Looks like yet another thing might be out there for Sarah Palin to lie about.

Because she is, you know, a liar.

..the beat goes on.

all the MSM on the Edwards affair, so maybe they got this one right too. My understanding is that they tend to pay boatloads of money to reliable sources on the sexual doings of public figures. Chances are the Enquirer and the McCain campaign are in a bidding war even now. I hope the story's true. It'll be fun to watch the "Christian" Right try to spin it.

People think it's okay to call Sarah Palin trailer trash when: a.) she doesn't live in a trailer; b.) she conducts herself in a professional way. You may not like her politics, but to label her trailer trash is very prejudiced. Dare I say sexist and/or racist? Not all whites who come from small towns are trailer trash, white trash, or whatever slur you want to use.

But what do I know? I was called a "racist" on another Salon messageboard because I dared to say that the Obamas rubbed me the wrong way. It seems that if anyone comments on the "typical white person" comment Barack made, or Michelle's "not proud of America until now" statement, that you hate all blacks. Uh, no. I just don't like their attitude. I wouldn't like their attitude if they were white. (Yes, Barack is 50% Caucasian, but he is called the first African American presidential nominee of a major party -- so I guess most folks, including himself, consider him "black" more than anything.

I guess at Salon.com, if you say one little thing about Obama's personality bugging you, you're a racist. But if you call Palin trailer trash for no good reason, that's just dandy.

I think the trailer trash comment makes you sound like an elitist pig. You may be sexist, too, but who knows. I'll stick with elitist pig for now.

... helped out the McCain campaign by contacting lefty bloggers last weekend, pretending to be "leakers" from the Enquirer who claimed the Enquirer was going public the following week with the story of Bristol Palin's pregnancy. I think, however, they deliberately told the bloggers a false version of the pregnancy -- saying that Bristol was really Trig's mother.

This helped out the McCain campaign in two ways. One, it discredited lefty bloggers who went bonkers with the story and two, it made the true story of Bristol Palin's pregnancy sound mundane compared to the evil leftist insinuation that Bristol and her mother conspired to fool the public about Trig's maternity.

(PR is all about how you release the story, not about the story itself.)

I'd be careful about claims that the Enquirer is working on a story until the Enquirer actually prints the story about the subject themselves.

That maybe the Scaife personal dirt police will back off now that it's one of their own. I know Larry Flynt's payback didn't work, but this "politics of personal" may just cost them an election.

If the National Equirer and Palin puts the morality police out of business in both parties I will cheer. Longshot I'm sure, but I can hope.

All the screaming "It's private" really is hypocritical given how Scaife's Republican hit machine went after Edwards based ont he Enquirer. If burning Palin stops this madness, it is worth it.

I never thought I'd say this, but: Thank God for the National Enquirer.