Has John McCain been heard singing, “Getting to Know You” to Sarah Palin? Is he starting to look like one of those guys who bought a bride online? Sure, she’s cute, but what will we find out next?
Even if we agree that the kids should be off-limits, the story of Bristol Palin, the Alaskan governor’s unmarried and pregnant seventeen-year-old daughter, was sure to be made public, as her mother might have anticipated. Reactions vary. Some feel the mother of an infant with special needs, Trig (the one whose name is Norse for “strength”), and also the mother of a teenager with special needs (the one named after a salmon fishery), might have chosen to turn down the VP job to protect her kids’ privacy and be more available than is possible while on the campaign trail. Others are more sympathetic, perhaps feeling, “That could be me ... struggling with my kids’ problems and running for vice-president, a job I don’t understand, with an older man I met only once.”
Sarah Palin is undeniably colorful and courageous. I wouldn’t want to be faced with the choices she’s confronted, but, then again, for her it’s not a choice, which may minimize the agonizing.
