Storms are brewing in Sarah Palin’s eyesBy Inside Track | Friday, September 5, 2008 |
http://www.bostonherald.com ST. PAUL, Minn. - The McCain Campaign is denying a supermarket tabloid story alleging that vice presidental candidate Sarah Palin had an extramarital affair, and is threatening legal action against the National Enquirer.
“Its a vicious lie,” John McCain spokesman Steve Schmidt said.
The Enquirer alleges in its Sept. 15 edition that Palin had a fling with a business associate of her husband, Todd Palin. The candidate’s hubby discovered the infidelity and dissolved the business, the article said.
The Enquirer attributed the allegation to “an enemy” of the Alaska governor and many pundits postulated that the tabloid’s source was Palin’s estranged brother-in-law, Mike Wooten. Wooten, who was embroiled in an ugly custody battle with Palin’s sister, claims the governor tried to have him fired from the Alaska state police.
“The smearing of the Palin family must end,” Schmidt said in a statement released yesterday.
The Enquirer, in a web story entitled “Palin War: Teen Preggo Crisis,” claims that Palin planned to have her pregnant 17-year-old daughter, Bristol, married off to her baby daddy right after the Republican National Convention.
The plan, the paper said, was to announce Bristol’s pregnancy after the wedding. However, the tabloid says the teen refused to go along with the wedding, sparking a “mother-daughter showdown.”
The Enquirer says the Palin camp revealed the pregnancy “hours after The Enquirer informed her representatives and family members of Levi Johnston, the father of Bristol’s child, that we were aware of the pregnancy and were going to break the news.”
The story adds that “The Enquirer has also learned that Palin’s family is embroiled in a vicious war that is now exposing her darkest secrets, threatening to destroy her political career.”