10/11/08: Palins using their children as shields

It’s cowardly how both Todd and Sarah Palin are trotting out one or more of their daughters at public events all across the country, apparently hoping to lessen the chorus of boos that greets them outside of any hard core Repub rally. They hit the heights tonight (Sat) at the Flyers hockey game in Philly, where, thanks to the Flyers’ Repub owner, Sarah Palin came out to drop the puck. She was accompanied on to the ice by two of her daughters, including the 7-year Piper in a Flyers uniform. Didn’t help. She got roundly booed anyway, so they had to keep turning the music up to try drown out the boos. I just feel sorry for their children that have to be subjected to all this – it can’t be good for them. Just five days earlier, Todd Palin showed up at a rally in Anchorage, accompanied by the same 7-year-old Piper. And we’ve seen them at various rallies being trotted out by their mother. Don’t they have school? Don’t their parents care about their education? Wait, don’t answer that – we already know how much their parents value education.