http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5gG45dczcPfpsGHldK0gP9TSOSsPwPalin's troubles go past family, enter politics with controversial A-G pick
Apr 14, 2009
WASHINGTON — Sarah Palin's attempts to shake the hillbilly tag tied to her by wary Republicans are being hamstrung by the sordid revelations of her daughter's ex-boyfriend and her choice of an anti-gay lawyer as Alaska's attorney general.
Far from the corridors of power on Capitol Hill, Alaskans are consumed with the woman who is playing coy about her aspirations to run for president in three years amid family and political theatrics that would do Jerry Springer proud.
Palin has recently endured the teen father of her first grandchild telling family secrets to Tyra Banks and the arrest and indictment of her sister-in-law on break-and-enter charges. snip
On Tuesday, there was more bad news as the Huffington Post obtained a 1991 column written by Ross in defence of a statue of a KKK figure as an expression of free speech on a college campus.