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Will News of a Todd Palin Affair with Shailey Tripp Help or Hurt Sarah Palin?
Are accusations of a Todd Palin affair, well, fair?
The National Enquirer has accused Todd Palin of having an affair with Shailey Tripp, a massage therapist who has been arrested for prostitution. News of the scandal is being spread far and wide today, and some are asking whether this alleged affair will hurt Sarah Palin’s bid for President in 2012. Palin doesn’t have much credibility with those outside of the Tea Party, so I’m not sure she’s ever stood a chance to be elected President, and certainly her blood libel remark didn’t do much in the way of painting her as someone with true leadership potential. That being said, there’s a chance this sex scandal could do as much to help Sarah Palin as it could to hurt her.
Sure, Palin has gone to great lengths to assure the public that she’s a family woman, a hockey mom who loves her kids and her husband. But Palin not only famously gave birth to her son Trig, who has Down Syndrome, just hours after landing from a trip to Dallas for a speech, she has been accused of essentially abandoning him during her VP bid. I’m not sure those accusations are fair, nor am I sure it’s okay to accuse someone of having an affair without any real evidence. (At least when the Enquirer disclosed the John Edwards/Rielle Hunter affair, they had photos of the two of them together.)
The question remains: will Sarah Palin will be looked at with pity during this scandal, especially given all of the criticisms against her of late, or will the general public will be thrilled to watch her go down in flames? A lot of that depends, naturally, on how she handles herself in response to these accusations. If Palin starts pointing fingers at the press, accusing them of a smear campaign, she might lose sympathy from even some of her base. I think Palin would do best to prove precisely how devoted she is to the sanctity of her family life by keeping this affair between her and her husband. And the woman he might have slept with.
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Gretchen Powers commented on Jan 21 11 at 3:12 pmI’d hit it.
carolyncastiglia commented on Jan 21 11 at 3:16 pmHahaha – Sarah or Todd? Or Shailey?
Gretchen Powers commented on Jan 21 11 at 3:27 pmuh, definitely Todd…Sarah Palin looks like she’d have coffee breath and is probably selfish in bed and the other chick looks a little dumpy, and not in a voluptuous way, though it’s hard to tell from the pic
carolyncastiglia commented on Jan 21 11 at 3:28 pmDumpy in a Voluptuous Way is the name of my band.
Gretchen Powers commented on Jan 21 11 at 3:33 pmBrilliant!
LogicalMama commented on Jan 21 11 at 3:50 pmCarol, love the name of your band. Mine is Flippy Flappy and the Split Clit, but all the L’s are pronounced as R’s.
carolyncastiglia commented on Jan 21 11 at 3:51 pmHaha – what?! I’m sure there’s a story there…
Gretchen Powers commented on Jan 21 11 at 3:54 pmyeah, and it has to do with a Chinese mother, sounds like
bloodlibel.wordpress.com/ commented on Jan 21 11 at 3:56 pmSo now working mothers have abandoned their children? Does your damning accusation extend to your fellow working moms there at Babble or just conservative working moms?
BTW, I don’t like Palin and wouldn’t vote for her, but all the Left is doing with the untrue accusations is firing up her base and increasing it.
LogicalMama commented on Jan 21 11 at 3:58 pmGretchen– Doh!
Just trying to disguise it…
yes, it’s two post-(apocolyptic), I mean birth stories mashed up. Two friends, two stories, two births……. I won’t go in to details but if you’ve ever given birth, you know. You know!
carolyncastiglia commented on Jan 21 11 at 4:18 pmI’m not personally accusing her of abandoning Trig. But she has been accused of that. People have examined her personal life before this scandal and that can have an effect on how pols/pundits/celebs are seen.
Gretchen Powers commented on Jan 21 11 at 4:22 pmDoesn’t Palin have a kid named Tripp? That’s kind of some weird name incestuosity, if he did do the nasty with Shailey Tripp!
LogicalMama commented on Jan 21 11 at 4:47 pm@Gretchen– I think that Bristol named her baby Tripp, so Sarah and Todd have a grandchild named Tripp!
Gretchen Powers commented on Jan 21 11 at 4:52 pmoh…yeah…they are a hard bunch to keep up with!
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