She decides to go in for some heartstring pulling and starts up with an anecdote about how she went to her daughters first to get their opinion on whether or not she should accept the invitation to join John McCain’s ticket.
Their answer was, “Absolutely, let’s do this, Mom.”
One problem; apparently this doesn’t even match up with the official campaign timeline of Sarah Palin accepting the nomination. The kids weren’t told about it until they were already en route to the acceptance in Ohio!
Now, look, I’m not trying to be a hardass, really, I’m not. I could care less how Palin broke the news to her kids; that event alone matters to the sum of zero on whether or not McCain and Palin can effectively govern. Not on its own, at least.
But when you factor this incident in with the fact that between McCain and Palin they haven’t managed to tell the truth about practically anything, that’s when it becomes significant. I mean, this is ludicrous; the big and important stuff they say turns out to be false, and the little stuff turns out to be false.
I recognize that people lie, especially politicians. And, to be perfectly honest, you have to kind of make allowances for that. But there’s a difference between occasionally stretching the truth, and being a pathological liar, and it is beginning to look like that is what the McCain/Palin team is; a big fat lie factory.