Posted on 09/02/2008 5:42:53 AM PDT by suspects
ST. PAUL, Minn. - And you thought the Clinton-Obama convention was a soap opera.
Enter stage (far) right: The Sarah Palin Chronicles.
John McCain’s VP choice was already the fastest-breaking curveball American politics had seen in a generation before this Reuters report:
“The 17-year-old daughter of Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin is pregnant, Palin said on Monday in an announcement intended to knock down rumors by liberal bloggers that Palin faked her own pregnancy to cover up for her child.”
“Faked” pregnancies. Teen sex. Government cover-ups. It’s like a bad episode of “Desperate Housewives,” except Gov. Palin is much hotter than Marcia Cross.
And she’s been the nominee for less than a week.
For normal people who don’t surf the fever swamps of the DailyKos and other liberal Web sites, the reference to faking a pregnancy has to do with a story invented by some lefty blogger that Trig Palin - Sarah’s newborn son who has Down syndrome - is actually the illegitimate son of the governor’s oldest daughter.
This idiotically offensive slur was demonstrably false - it took me less than 60 seconds to find a photo of a painfully-pregnant Gov. Palin from earlier this year - but pro-Obama activists like Andrew Sullivan and even some mainstream media outlets jumped on it.
And now, with the news of Bristol Palin’s pregnancy, the 2008 presidential campaign officially has more plot twists than an episode of “Lost.” It also has two legitimate stars: Barack Obama, descended from the heavens to heal our souls and deliver our nation; and Sarah Palin, who wandered in from the Alaska wilderness with a rifle under one arm and a baby in the other.
The Republicans figured out a strategy to deal with Oba-Messiah: the power of positive mockery. It worked so well that...
(Excerpt) Read more at bostonherald.com ...
"Our beautiful daughter Bristol came to us with news that as parents we knew would make her grow up faster than we had ever planned. We're proud of Bristol's decision to have her baby and even prouder to become grandparents. "Bristol and the young man she will marry are going to realize very quickly the difficulties of raising a child, which is why they will have the love and support of our entire family," the parents said.
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"I don't want my daughters punished with a baby."Romans 8:28
God's calling attention to the difference between the candidates.
this is vulturous
I was thinking the same thing all weekend.
Very good article by Michael Graham. Thanks for posting.
Yes, but it’s important to understand that there will be some conservatives who argue for consistency-—that illegitimacy is a sign of social decline, and while it’s a plus that she is having the baby, it’s nevertheless sad that even in conservative families illicit sex seems common these days. So while there is no abortion involved, we shouldn’t miss the fact that the bar has once again been lowered.
So to be totally consistent to you she should have had an abortion.
This is a really good read. PLEASE READ THE ENTIRE COLUMN.
Well, I guess they'll just have to vote for NOBAMA then.
I guess this is the Dems latest theme song.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDo9yYSuzkk
Perhaps if Sarah had stayed home and raised her family, her daughter wouldn’t have become pregnant.
Her daughter’s pregnancy highlights another part of Palin’s appeal. Her normalcy. Here’s a woman who has run a business, raised a family, who is sending a son off to Iraq, who has another son with a disability, and now has to help her teenage daughter face motherhood. These are experiences that millions of American moms have shared, can relate to and understand.
That's what normal looks like.
Run second to Obama? Wanna take a bet? I think she'll pull a lot of interest...not only from the Republicans, but most women, and many men, for that matter, regardless of their party affiliation. Everyone will want to know what she really is about...even if it is just to try and find fault.
By evincing a righteous life and right values, Sarah Palin has the opportunity, and I think the capacity, to strip liberalism and its hothouse mandarins butt-shiveringly naked.
And if we had some eggs, we could have some ham and eggs if we had some ham.
typical democrat.
What, no girl in a well-governed house ever listened to a boy's horny lies?
Mother Nature plays dirty to get her way. She blood-dopes.
That argument really sharpens the difference between the candidates.
There had better be a bucket of sarcasm attached to that statement. ;) Perhaps if she'd locked her daughter in her room she wouldn't have become pregnant....
Joe:
Are you serious?
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