Appearing on Fox last night, Sarah Palin told Sean Hannity a heartwarming story of how she asked her teenage daughters for their opinion before accepting the vp offer.



"So ask the girls what they thought and they’re like, ‘Absolutely, let’s do this, Mom,’” Palin recounted of her daughters, Bristol and Willow.



Yet, according to the campaign-provided timeline of how Palin's selection came about, her kids only found out the big news after they were spirited from Alaska to Ohio for the announcement.



"While there, Governor Palin's children, who had been told they were going to Ohio to celebrate their parents' wedding anniversary, were told for the first time that their mother would be a nominee for Vice President of the United States of America," said the official timeline, as released by McCain's campaign last month.



Todd Palin, in a separate interview with Fox this week, also said the kids were not told about the decision until after they left Alaska.



Asked about the discrepancy, Palin spokeswoman Tracey Schmitt said: "She asked the girls to vote once they arrived in Ohio."



When it was noted that, that would have been after the decision had already been made, Schmitt said Palin was still in Arizona at the time.



This, of course, doesn't change the fact that the children were already in Ohio for the express purpose of announcing he news.



By itself, the tale is a small thing. Perhaps Palin was more running it by them then asking them. But why, when many of her policy-related statements are coming under question, would Palin embroider something that is so easily proven untrue?



Al Gore was roasted in 2000 for his exaggerations, and the pattern of them gave Republicans a brutal frame to use against him. With these sorts of stories, Palin is giving Democrats the same sort of ammunition.

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