Pothead Palin

Well, Joe McGinniss’s book is due out in a few days.  I haven’t read it yet, but if the publisher would send me a free copy, I’d be happy to write a review.  You all remember Joe McGinniss, right?  He’s the guy who rented the house next door to the Palin’s so he could look into little

Joe McGinniss

Piper’s window and watch Sarah as she sunbathed nude by the pool, or something like that.

So, here’s what I’ve heard about the book so far, from various sources:

Sarah Palin used to smoked pot with one of her college professors.

Sarah Palin did cocaine once on a snowmobiling trip with Todd and friends.  They snorted it off the top of an oil drum.  However, Todd was the one who was really into it.

Sarah Palin is not a great mother, and her kids often have to make their own dinner.

Sarah Palin’s reading material of choice is People magazine.

Sarah Palin once had sex with a black guy.  Specifically, basketball star Glen Rice.

Sarah Palin was already pregnant when she married Todd.

Sarah Palin had an extra-marital affair with Todd’s business partner, Brad Hanson.

If Sarah Palin wasn’t an extreme right wing political figure who I consider a threat to the future of the human race, most of these things wouldn’t bother me at all.

The one night stand with Glen Rice happened when he was a star at Michigan and she was a star struck young sportscaster at an Anchorage TV station.  Rice confirmed the event, but didn’t say anything negative about Palin.  He said “She was a real sweetheart.”  If anything, she gets points for being less of a racist than I thought she was.  It was before she was married.

The extra-marital affair, as I see it, is between her and Todd.  If he’s not worried about it, I’m not.

As far as the drug use goes, I sure am not one to criticize.  I smoke more pot than Cheech AND Chong.  I never got into cocaine, I sort of see that as a rich person’s drug, but I’ve tried it as many times as Sarah Palin.  And the fact that they snorted it off an old oil drum while snowmobiling in Alaska actually makes it sort of cool.

The fact that she’s somewhat less than mother of the year doesn’t surprise me, when you see how messed up her kids are, but not cooking dinner every night is a long way short of actual child abuse.  If we’re going to make a big deal over that, then I have to confess that I let my kids watch cartoons too much.

She was already pregnant when she got married.  Well, so was my wife.  By about two weeks, we figured out, when we did the math later.

People magazine, though.  I’m not giving her a pass on that one.