As attention focused on those better-known members of the short list, Palin’s family flew out of Anchorage on a Gulfstream jet. It touched down in Middletown about 10 p.m. Thursday.

Rather than risking being seen coming to McCain’s hotel, the Palins and McCain’s aides continued to the nearby Manchester Inn and Conference Center, where they checked in under another name. It was then that Palin’s children, who had been told they were going to Ohio to celebrate their parents’ wedding anniversary, also on Friday, were told for the first time that their mother would be a nominee for the vice presidency.
–Secrecy, surprise were goals of McCain’s VP search, AP

I’m trying to ignore Palin, but the WTF moments just keep coming. Lying to her kids about why they were going to Ohio? Really? Is that supposed to be an example of excellent parenting and putting the needs of one’s family and children first. I think it’s an excellent example of where her priorities are. They were about to be thrown into a media circus, and if she and McCain should win, their entire lives would be changed and uprooted, but it wasn’t important enough to tell them about it before hand. Not even just not tell them, but to actively lie to them about it. What a crappy way to treat kids!

My parents would have never made a big decision without at least telling me the truth of what was going on. Hell, they didn’t even make little decisions without keeping me in the loop. Sure, I didn’t usually have much say in things, being a kid, but they never flat out lied to me about stuff. A comparative example would have been had my parents told me we were going on a vacation way back when we headed out on that fateful road trip ages ago to find a new place to live, and then they’d just said “Oh, hey, by the way, we are moving!” My parents had their flaws and made the occasional parenting blunder, but at least dishonesty wasn’t one of them.

Will the WTF moments ever end with Palin? They just seem to keep coming and coming and coming.