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Originally Posted by andy764383
That wouldn't stop the New York Times. If there was anything here they would be on it, and they aren't. Except for comments, it's not even in the blogs.
But do keep deluding yourselves. It's amusing watching the contortions.
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Didn't AP just run a story about it?
Personally, I'm not entirely sure how this bears on my opinion of a
McCain presidency. I'd like more information about it, but this doesn't really alter my perception at all - I like McCain and am considering voting for him, but Sarah Palin as a candidate (Wasilla rape laws notwithstanding) is troublesome to me as I generally will not support pro-government conservatives that are value voters types. I find the story troublesome, but I didn't like the idea of a Palin presidency one bit (and this wouldn't necessariyl require McCain's failing health - she'd be the presumptive nominee after a hypothetical 8 years of McCain) in the first place, so even if all of this is true, it doesn't lower my opinion of her politically much (though personally, it would) as I tended to view her as a liability based on her "values voter" and divine right takes in the first place.
My point here is that I have no vested interest in this story being true or not - I just want to know what happened. From a relatively objective standpoint, the only contortions I see are Oreo's "rapes don't happen in small towns" absurdity and your posts, to a lesser degree. You're addressing such things as the file formats of the stories and the comments sections on websites. That is, you seem to be searching in violation of Ockham's Razor for any possible way to convince yourself that something you don't want to be true isn't true (website conspiracies, media conspiracies, etc). Even various conservatives that have weighed in here (Si Modo, Matt Larson, etc) have expressed concern over what appears to be a genuine iniquity that occurred, if perhaps varying degrees of thinking personal indictment toward Palin herself or toward McCain's candidacy.