Posted on 09/01/2008 9:05:11 AM PDT by WackySam
Yes it it, it's easy to be pro-life when there aren't any unplanned pregnancies, but it's times like these when we see what a person is really made of.
You do realize that is a photoshopped picture, right?
Anyone who refuses to vote for McCain-Palin because of this story is not someone whose vote we should want. Let them go vote for Obama, the baby-killer, who boasts that he would abort his own grandchildren in order to keep his daughters from being “punished by a by a baby.”
Personally, I think Sarah Palin comes out of this looking better than ever. If one of your children gets in trouble, you help them out of it, you don’t jump in and make the sin worse by killing your grandchild or shipping your daughter out of the country like bill clinton did with the mother of his love child.
Help your children get back on their feet and straighten out their lives, don’t “fix” it by killing your grandchildren. That’s how the Kennedys and the Obamas and the Bidens handle these “problems.”
The only people who come out of this really looking bad are the presstitutes, the Democrats, and the idiots who go along with their story.
You don’t know Reagan.
Don't knock me, the messenger. We know how the Left works. It will work to confuse and mislead and confuse the voters and demoralize the GOP supporters despite all explanations and protestations...which it will ignore.
This is not good given the stupidity and/or the exagerrated/hypocritical morality of countless voters.....and the ravening media.
I agree that this is how they will spin it. And it will affect how Palin is viewed among the far left and perhaps among some few on the social conservative right--those who tend toward self-righteousness.
But for the vast majority of the conservative base, toward whom the Palin pick was directed, I think it will arouse sympathy. It is true that children of parents living intense public lives suffer from their parents' choices. If this were 40 years ago, there'd be less sympathy for the Palins. But after 40 years of relentless feminist screaming about the wonderfulness of career women, there's an awful lot of women out there who have discovered on their own how hard it is to raise children well under these circumstances. As others have pointed out, even if one does everything right, the children are free agents and boys got girls pregnant even when most women stayed at home.
Moderate center-left women who have bought into the feminist dream in moderate ways will actually probably respect and sympathize with Sarah Palin more than they otherwise might have. Conservative women, anyone with common sense who has children of this age or even those who don't but can empathize, will think, "there but for the grace of God, go I" (or some secular version of that).
Only the extremist pro-aborts or birth-control fanatics will try to use this to discredit Palin, and because most men and women in the broad middle who are raising children or have raised children or hope to raise children, even unmarried 20- and 30-somethings, can understand how this could happen to them, because of that, I think they will see Sarah Palin no longer as WonderWoman (she was in danger of becoming that, among the conservative base) but as the Mom-next-door who has, despite her failings, done truly Remarkable Things.
I feel very sorry for Bristol Palin but wish her and her fiance the best. Most of America will, I think, think something along these lines.
Perhaps you were jesting? If you are serious, I have to disagree. This is not something to celebrate. The child is being welcomed, as he or she should be welcomed. The mother and father are stepping up and taking responsibility. But what they did was not good, not for them, not for the baby, not for their parents, not for society. The Palins are reacting to it well, but to call for celebration of a sad mistake would be hypocritical coming from those who say that sex outside marriage is wrong.
Let's use some common sense here, unlike the Kos-Libs.
If Bush and Cheney got elected with Cheney’s daughter being a lesbian, I doubt this pregnancy will make much of an impact with voters.
You’ve been here less than a year - how would you know “how we are?”
To be blunt, if you give up that easily, we don't need you on our side.
This will be a non issue. I challenge you to find a family anywhere that has not had to deal with something similar in their extended family.
Additionally, this will backfire on the libs with the swing voters if they push it too hard.
I’m sure if we were to send things to the Alaska governor’s office or mansion they would be forwarded on to Bristol.
Alaska Governor’s Office
550 W 7th Ave # 1700
Anchorage, AK 99501
(907) 269-7450
Governor’s Mansion
716 Calhoun Av.
Juneau, Alaska
99801-1617
“That statement is idiotic and offensive.”
That’s the point I was trying to get across... ;0)
As a matter of fact, wasn't Nancy Reagan preggers with Patty when she married Ronald Reagan?
I doubt they will be asking any abortion questions during the VP debate now. They know Sarah will have American in tears over her wonderful answer.
I know. One would think they would be smarter than a 17 year old. But many are not.
You think it’s a GOOD thing that underage kids are having children outside of wedlock?
How can you have "family values" if you don't have a family in the first place?
This is a HUGE moment in pro-life history.
To reuse a recent line, this thread will separate the pro-life walkers from the pro-life talkers.
Well said.
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