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Unusual for me to have 3 posts in as many days… But the Palin thing just keeps getting better.

Here’s an article with a letter from someone from Palin’s home town of Wasilla about her actual record.

Now this is just a letter to the editor and you can’t tell if it’s true or not. Presumably the claims of the letter are all matters of the public record so some reporter could go and do some fact checking. For that matter… The Obama campaign should do some fact checking. If the claims in that letter are true, there’s a lot of good material to attack the image of a conservative reformer. The letter makes Palin’s executive experience sound just like Bush’s term in office.

I love this! I just got forwarded this video of John McCain’s former campaign chief Mike Murphy and former Reagan speechwriter Peggy Noonan talking with Chuck Todd about Sarah Palin when they thought they were off camera.

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So – I don’t have a problem with the idea that a candidate’s family should be off limits. You shouldn’t attack a candidate for a problem that someone in their family has. Jimmy Carter’s alchoholic brother comes to mind.

And I’m not saying that the fact that Sarah Palin’s 17 year old daughter is pregnant in itself says anything bad about Sarah Palin – If anything, as a parent with daughters myself, it makes her seem more human.

The issue is that Sarah Palin has publicly advocated an abstenence only approach to sex education. That’s the context that makes it relevant.

I don’t think it is an attack on Sarah Palin’s family to say “Here’s someone who believes in and presumably practices abstenence-only sex ed in her own family and look how well it worked for her.”

That is not an attack on Sarah Palin’s family, but an attack on her own values and judgements.