Yesterday the National Enquirer ran a print edition story alleging that Sarah Palin has had an extramarital affair with her husband's business partner.
Here is the Huffington Post story about this, which leads with the story angle that John McCain's presidential campaign is threatening a lawsuit against the National Enquirer over this, but the more important take away item for me in this Huff Post story is that there is more yet to come from the National Enquirer about Palin's extramarital affair:
The allegation would normally be dismissed by political observers as the random musings of a supermarket tabloid -- indeed, the McCain campaign said as much in its statements on Wednesday -- except that the paper has built up a reservoir of legitimacy following its earlier reporting on the John Edwards affair.
In a statement to the Huffington Post, a spokesman for the paper, who promised a larger report next week, tapped into that pool of quasi-respect.
After last night's ugly display of mean-spirited nasty hardball being played at the Republican National Convention, I have absolutely no problem with diarying about and playing up Palin's extramarital affair here now.
The National Enquirer stories about the John Edwards affair, though hard to take, were on the money, and these stories pretty much destroyed Edwards' political career. That is because John Edwards denied his affair so much, that when it finally broke, it fell like a ton of bricks on him and crushed him.
And that is exactly what I now want to see happen to Palin.
If this story about Palin's extramarital affair is true, I want to see her & McCain absolutely crushed & destroyed by it, because Palin was Dobson's pick to be the GOP ticket's standard bearer for sexual morality.
If Palin is just another phony judgemental GOP sexual moralist like Larry Craig or David Vitter, then I want to see her nailed to the wall NOW.
If this story is true, it will destroy the McCain candidacy, period.