Her family problems telegraphed to me that she was a ticking time bomb... and I was right. It only got worse.... before the TDS there was PDS at FreeRepublic .... if you didn't worship the ground she walked on you were considered an outcast.... now you can't find a person there that remembers being such.
Well, in 2008, the only family problems they were having were with teenaged Bristol getting pregnant by Levi Johnston, who was co-opted by the local Democrats to turn and attack Sarah, and Sarah's own pregnancy with Trig, which became a particular obsession of Andrew Sullivan.
Andrew Sullivan's Trig Palin obsessionhttps://theweek.com/articles/493070/andrew-sullivans-trig-palin-obsession Andrew Sullivan suspects that Sarah Palin may not have been entirely honest about the birth of her son Trig, and while The Atlantic blogger is not a lone voice on this issue, he is one of the few mainstream writers to give it such persistent consideration. Some of his fellow doubters argue that Trig — who has Down's Syndrome — is not really Palin's child, but her daughter Bristol's. Others believe Palin was simply lying about the circumstances surrounding his birth (particularly her claim that she was flown from Dallas to Anchorage while in labor). But even if Palin did bend the truth, asks Sullivan in a new column, why should we care? Because, Palin has "deliberately forced an infant with special needs into the bewildering public space," and used his birth to gain respect from her conservative Christian base. If she lied to do that, then what business does she have running for president? Here, an excerpt:
Remember how the media hounded them mercilessly and how Joe McGinniss even moved into the house next door to spy on them?
Sarah Palin Lashes Out at Journalist Joe McGinniss for Moving Next Doorhttps://www.cbsnews.com/news/sarah-palin-lashes-out-at-journalist-joe-mcginniss-for-moving-next-door/Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, who has long had a contentious relationship with the media, lashed out today against a writer she says has moved in next door while he writes a book about her.
Joe McGinniss, a non-fiction novelist known for works including the book The Selling of the President, an account of the 1968 Nixon presidential campaign, has rented a house next to Palin's Alaska home for about five months, Palin writes in a Facebook note.
"He moved up all the way from Massachusetts to live right next to us - while he writes a book about me," Palin writes. "Knowing of his many other scathing pieces of 'journalism' (including the bizarre anti-Palin administration oil development pieces that resulted in my Department of Natural Resources announcing that his work is the most twisted energy-related yellow journalism they'd ever encountered), we're sure to have a doozey to look forward to with this treasure he's penning. Wonder what kind of material he'll gather while overlooking Piper's bedroom, my little garden, and the family's swimming hole?"
Their family problems only exploded AFTER the 2008 election and the pressures brought on by the non-stop attacks to take her down over the next three years. That was enough to destroy any marriage and family.