Not once during the 2008 election did the Obama campaign themselves make an issue of the speculations whether Trig Palin was Sarah Palin's kid or her daughter's. The blogosphere did, and was quite happy to, but not under any instructions from the campaign, nor did the MSM pursue it very much. Indeed, Obama has never made any issue of Palin--certainly personally--at all.

So tell me what this says about the kind of person Sarah Palin is.

Would you make [Obama's long form] birth certificate an issue if you ran?

I think the public, rightfully, is still making it an issue. I don’t have a problem with that. I don’t know if I would have to bother to make it an issue ’cause I think there are enough members of the electorate who still want answers.

Do you think it’s a fair question to be looking at?

I think it’s a fair question, just like I think past associations and past voting record — all of that is fair game. You know, I’ve got to tell you, too: I think our campaign, the McCain/Palin campaign didn’t do a good enough job in that area. We didn’t call out Obama and some of his associates on their records and what their beliefs were and perhaps what their future plans were. And I don’t think that that was fair to voters to not have done our jobs as candidates and as a campaign to bring to light a lot of the things that now we’re seeing made manifest in the administration.

I mean, truly, if your past is fair game and your kids are fair game, certainly Obama’s past should be. I mean, we want to treat men and women equally, right?

Hey, you know, that’s a great point, in that weird conspiracy-theory freaky thing that people talk about that Trig isn’t my real son. And a lot of people say, “Well you need to produce his birth certificate! You need to prove that he’s your kid!” Which we have done. But yeah, so maybe we could reverse that and use the same [unintelligible]-type thinking on them.

In other words, because it works, she is willing to use a tactic that she herself claimed was inherently out of bounds--when it was used on her. Against someone who never participated in said tactic. A tactic that relies on making people believe what Palin, as far as the matter of her baby is concerned, claims is all lies. But it works, so she doesn't care. So even if she knows the Obama birther crap is a lie, she'd be perfectly willing to use it.

Some of her former staff have referred to her as "sociopathic." I'd tend to agree. She's not so much a liar as a bullshitter; the truth is simply not something she cares about, or keeps track of. Truth and lies are tactics for her, that's all. It's fortunate she's also unaware others do keep track of these things.

What a ridiculous little monster she is.