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A reader writes:

None of Palin's story makes sense to me: either you have something to hide, or you don't. People are only this continuously opaque when that is the purpose - to BE opaque and escape resolution (or is that accountability?).  But as crazy as she is, as much as I don't trust her, I have to wonder if at the bottom the Palin pregnancy story isn't just another gross exaggeration done on the fly that has come back to haunt her. I don't believe mere reality is something that has ever seriously impacted her thoughts or actions.

Her story reminds me of those Great White Hunter tall tales "and there I was facing the largest Bengal tiger ever seen by a man! So I raised my gun... and FIRED!"  In her small world she was probably always able to get away with "embellishments" but not on a national stage.

She got caught between a rock and a hard place. She shot her mouth off making herself the toughest pioneer woman in history, realized it made no sense and could make her appear reckless, even criminal (got to wonder how her doctor feels about all of this too), and then couldn't retract what she said so publicly. 

And then the story was picked up by other Republicans to tout how tough the moose hunter really was!  Ouch!  It wasn't supposed to go this way. No one was supposed to examine what she said and actually question her!  Now she's doubling down and is waiting for it to all pass over. Kind of reminds me of someone else in high office these past 8 years ...

Has anyone seen Bristol Palin lately? She's eight months pregnant.