HOW THE PALIN PICK TRUMPS OBAMA-BIDEN
Posted on 09/01/2008 2:50:13 PM PDT by ricks_place
Isn't it the Democrats who are supposed to be all about privacy in matters of the womb?
So, Bristol Palin, 17-year-old daughter of VP nominee Sarah Palin, is five months pregnant. While that closes one door — the endless rumors of the teenager being pregnant with Trig four and a half months ago and her mother faking the pregnancy for her — it opens another avenue for attacks on the newly named GOP VP pick.
Sarah and Todd Palin say their 17-year-old unmarried daughter is pregnant. The couple said in a statement released by John McCain’s presidential campaign that Bristol will keep her baby.
Sarah Palin is McCain’s vice presidential running mate. The Alaska governor says Bristol intends to marry the father of her child. She and the campaign also are asking that the media respect the family’s privacy
Privacy? Don’t bet on it. This is a whole fresh pile of mud for the left to start slinging. They’ll attack Palin’s family values stance, talk about how Palin teaches abstinence, and start trotting out the hypocrisy meme. Except this is not Palin who is the unmarried, pregnant teen. It’s her daughter. It’s not particularly shocking when a teenager does something against the parents’ teachings, is it? If we were to call out every parent who taught abstinence from sex, smoking, drugs, or drinking then had a kid indulge in any (or all) of those, we’d be here all day.
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Juno Alaska!
The Dems are once again demonstrating their foolishness. They’d be better off marginalizing Palin’s impact and trying to bring the focus back to McCain. If they try to make this a referendum on Sarah Palin they’re going to get crushed.
LOL!
The Palin’s are a family just like those in most of America. I am certain that many other families in this country have had to face the situation of a young daughter being pregnant and unmarried. I feel sorry for them and especially their daughter that these private family matters have to be so publicly aired by the media. The Palin’s are handling this situation well and with great love for their daughter and that should be very evident to most of America.
Great essay and pictures! You’ve outdone yourself.
Remember that all of the candidates have children who can be drawn into the mudslinging. I'm sure that the other candidates don;t want to see this get out of hand.
Also, many voters may tire of the personal attacks on family members and vote for the party that takes the high ground.
Best wishes for the Palin family, particularly Bristol Palin and her child.
Thanks to the internet we can fight back...
Can somebody help me follow the reasoning that somehow this winds up showing hypocrisy?
Teens aren’t always in control of their hormones—everyone who’s been a teenager knows this.
The teen’s adults tell them it’s better to wait, but we all know that sometimes hormones speak louder, and the teen indulges his/her urges rather than doing what their parents wish them to do.
Teen then talks to parents. Teen deals responsibly with the situation, with support of parents, by marriage and bringing the baby to term.
Not the ideal way to start a family, but lots of ‘em start that way. It happens. Even to some Democratic Presidential candidates we know.
I have trouble seeing the hypocrisy here, except from those screaming “Hypocrisy!!!”
At least her daughter can rest easy with the knowledge that her father isn’t Barack Hussein Obama who thinks his daughters having a baby at a young age would be ‘saddled’ with a baby - nuisance.
I can’t find anything but there’s news on the cable channels
that Palin has hired an attorney for Troopergate. Anyone
has news about this?
I agree and the thing with payback it is all about THE timing and intensity
Democrats are the originators of the slime machine. If you read Saul Alinsky’s book “Rules for Radicals”, you’ll see where today’s democrats got their methodology.
Pick an innocent person as your target. Never let up. Keep it up until your target falls.
Liberalism is a progressive weakening of the ability to think clearly.
The Obama girls are minors, cute as heck, and it would be wrong to slime them with rumor and innuendo. There is no imaginable circumstance where the Obama girls are fair game. Unfortunately, political warfare is asymmetrical when facing unethical opponents but we must live with ourselves the next day.
Yes she did. Wolfie on the Situation Room made it quite clear that she did just that. Also calling it troopergate? Why is this troopergate already?
It wasn’t “saddled”, it was worse! It was “PUNISHED”.
What is it about becoming a Democrat that causes them to lose their humanity? Or are they just born that way?
It closes the door to the rumors about 17-year-old Bristol.
But what do you want to bet the savages go after Willow (13, I believe) next? I mean, Sarah obviously said it was her kid so the left would think it’s Bristol’s and not find out it’s Willow’s.
And when they’re done with that, there’s always the 6 year old. Of course, the bright side of dragging Sarah’s family through the mud is that if there’s anyone who can handle it gracefully it’s her...if they really are stupid enough to start the rumor mill again after being so wrong on this one, I think any decent-minded individual is going to be pretty disgusted.
This isn’t like trashing Bush or digging up Clinton skeletons or slimy Obama connections...they’re attacking a woman who’s yet to show the slightest bit of underhandedness and a family that fits the definition of all-American.
I give Sarah Palin credit - she's taking care of her own, which is a heck of allot more than Barak (enjoy you hut bro) Obama can say.
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