I think you’re right.
I also think if they attack the Palins on this it will destroy Obama’s credibility with a significant portion of their younger supporters, many of whom have undoubtedly found themselves in the same situation in their lives.
There’s also that whole bit about the Dems supporting unwed teenage mothers. They destroy all credibility on that related issue as well.
you don’t understand what the Dems are doing. They’re using it not to attack Palin herself, but the very idea of abstinence-only education.
The idea is that if Palin’s family values can’t prevent her own daughters from getting pregnant, and they put out stats showing that “red” areas and those with abstinence-only programs have higher teenage birth rates, then Palin’s *policies* are dangerous for our children. Or some other such malarky.
Basically, they’re using this to wedge more moderate Americans away from “values voters” by making Palin seem like a dangerous extremist on family issues.
“I also think if they attack the Palins on this it will destroy Obama’s credibility...”
the fact that his attack monkeys are even saying that this affects things is an attack on Bristol in and of itself.
They are despicable.
And btw, assuming mccain DID really know about this, which I think he did, the timing of the announcement for today was as good as it could get.
It came after the initial Palin introduction, which was a rousing success, but before the Convention really got going...also on Labor day when a lot of people are on the move, and also while gustav was a story. It was an intelligent decision on the timing to try to mitigate the impact.