Sarah Palin wears her motherhood like a designer flack jacket worn to deflect criticism and attract admiration. But is there any reason that it should?

"Why are they touching me?"

Somebody sent me this link to the Facebook page of a woman named, Lynda Armstrong, who attended Friday's PTSD  event and then wrote about it the day after.

Armstrong also runs the sycophantic US for Palin fansite so as you can imagine she was a little excited.

Get a load of this:

I arrived a little early and found the person I needed to find. I can tell you I had butterflies dive-bombing in my stomach. In a few minutes I would see the lady who lives under the great North Star - the lady we call, "Sarah." 

Everyone was dressed in their Sunday best. Many were waiting to meet Our Sarah. The people around me were so nice. They could not wait to meet her. For some, it was the first time. I was able to talk to some about Sarah Palin's Earthquake Movement. Those with whom I spoke about SPEQ seemed very interested. Then, it was my turn. 

I walked into the room. Sarah looked beautiful. She reached out her hand and we exchanged a few words. I hugged her. If you look at the picture, you can see Sarah is smiling. In her arms, I told her that over 35 people texted me and asked me to give her that hug. The 35 asked me to tell her they love her and they have her back. Sarah said to tell all of you, "Thank you and that she has your back". 

Far too fast, my special moment was over. I was escorted into dinner by a nice looking Marine in full dress uniform. My seat was at table number four. My chair was turned so that I was dead-on in front of Sarah. No one was in front of me. I was in hog heaven. 

Sarah's speech was wonderful. She was more than just a mom talking about her son. Although, she did that, she also encouraged others to step up and fight for those who have and are still fighting for our freedom.

Holy Wing nuts Batman!  That is a whole lot of idiotic idolatry to swallow all at once.

I'm surprised she left out the part where Sister Sarah walked on water and turned turned every day cold medicine in meth.

For some reason that whole "She was more than a mom talking about her son" phrase really bothered me.

Then I read this on Armstrong's Palin fanzine:  

Sarah Palin’s speech was as great as I knew it would be. She spoke about her son, Track who had been at Mighty Oaks for its services. Track served combat deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan. He suffers from PTSD. Track now works with other combat veterans. 

Sarah Palin said Christ heals better than any amount of pills or counselling.(sic)

What? Christ heals better than medications and counseling?

The hell it does. And telling people something like that is incredibly irresponsible.

Especially since stories about Track self medicating are as well known in Wasilla as stories about epic snowfalls of the past.

And allow me to remind everybody again that Track could NOT have developed PTSD while in the military because he was not exposed to combat.

See? No Combat Infantry Badge.

So either Palin lying about the FACT that Track suffers from PTSD, or WHERE the trauma occurred, and she is also offering terrible, and potentially harmful, advice to people who are legitimately suffering with the disorder.

NOBODY should be listening to this whack-a-doodle about ANYTHING. But especially not about something this serious.

But clearly Palin has no intention of curtailing her mission of misinformation.



According to yet another Palin fansite she is scheduled to make an appearance at the September 25th fundraiser for the LifeChoices Health Network during which she plans to regale the audience with her Trig birth story, and share with them her experiences of raising a child with Down Syndrome.

The problem of course is that, much like being a combat veteran's mom, Palin has virtually NO experience with raising a Down syndrome child. She leaves that to others.

This of course is where the Palin troll jumps in and starts screaming that I don't know Sarah, cannot name her friends, and have no idea how effective she is as a parent to little Trig.

The problem, at least with that last part, is that Palin was ignorant enough to film her discomfort and lack of parenting skills with Trig.

You see a reporter signed up for the Sarah Palin Channel, and sat through all 77 of Palin's embarrassingly amateurish videos. (Talk about PTSD!)

He made a number of interesting observations which you can read about here.

However this was what leaped out at me: 

And in my favorite video, "Mom-in-Chief," Palin tries to interest Trig in "One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish"; he slaps the book away and watches "SpongeBob" instead. Palin tries to convince her son to count and to identify the color of her fleece; he'd rather tap at his DVD player. This goes on for seven uneventful minutes: Palin tries to show us that she can mother the boy; Trig only occasionally responds.

In other words Palin herself demonstrates her lack of ability, and experience, in dealing with children afflicted with Down Syndrome. And yet she is going to give a speech to others about her experiences?

The article also contains this little gem:  

Palin chokes up when she finds a letter that her son Track sent her before he shipped off to Iraq. "I don't care what the 'politicos' say," she insists, bucking herself up, "because I'm the mother of a combat vet."

And there you have it. The two bookends that define Sarah Palin post politics. 

She is the mother of a combat vet and a Down syndrome child.

Except she is neither one of those two things.

She did NOT give birth to Trig, nor clearly is she his primary caregiver.

And Track, though he enlisted in the military, is NOT a combat vet.

In a nutshell everything about Sarah Palin is a complete and utter lie.

And the sad part is that those lies are all that she has left.