Hockey mom sticks it to McCain

The National Enquirer is reporting on its web site that Governor Sarah Palin quietly tried to get her 17-year-old daughter married and planned to announce the pregnancy after the wedding, but her daughter refused to go along with the plan.

Now it all makes sense.

Over the weekend, McCain aides insisted to reporters the senator was told about Bristol Palin's pregnancy before he selected Governor Palin as his running mate.

They didn't say what else he may have been told.

He may have been told that Bristol was going to marry her high-school Romeo right after the Republican convention and then Governor Palin would happily introduce the happy couple and announce the happy news of the pregnancy.

The National Enquirer says that was Sarah Palin's plan, but at some point Bristol said she wanted no part of it, sparking "a mother-daughter showdown over the failed coverup."

Politicians who seek high office typically open their campaigns with a warm story of the evening they sat down with the family to discuss whether they should run or not, because the decision affects every member of the family.

Sarah Palin didn't tell that story.

Instead, MSNBC reported today, her kids were told last weekend that they were all flying to Dayton for a celebration of their parents' wedding anniversary.

The Palin family is full of surprises.

If John Edwards had waited one more month to visit his mistress and love child, the Enquirer wouldn't have had a car available to chase him.


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