Don't they have birth control in Alaska? They sure would if they sent Froma up there. (Sorry, I don't usually like to take the low road, but these idiots are getting on my nerves.)
Posted on 09/04/2008 10:58:08 AM PDT by Hildy
I had dinner last night with a Republican-leaning independent who was despondent over John McCain's choice of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate. She had been looking forward to supporting McCain as a fiscal conservative with a deep understanding of foreign relations. But all she could now see was that picture of Palin's pregnant 17-year-old looking defiant and stupid as she held mom's fifth baby.
Many religious conservatives are jubilant. They regard Palin as a swell choice because her high-schooler was going to have the baby. The line sent my friend into shock. This is not a matter of abortion politics, she said, but of managing one's own affairs.
"Don't they have birth control up in Alaska?" she asked.
If that view has any currency among Republican-leaners, you can imagine what other independents are thinking. Or disaffected supporters of Hillary Clinton. Barack Obama's recent pandering toward the Clinton holdouts didn't do the Democrat a fraction of the good that McCain is doing him. McCain's apparent belief that dangling any woman before diehard Clinton fans would win them over may be optimistic.
Until now, one could counter the Democrats' argument that a McCain presidency would amount to a third term for Bush. After all, McCain is a deficit hawk. He cares about the environment. Many pro-choice voters were willing to overlook McCain's generally anti-abortion stance on the belief that he didn't really care about the issue. And the widespread concern regarding McCain's age could have been assuaged by the choice of a competent vice president.
Then who does McCain pick for VP? A 44-year-old who parades her dysfunctional family as a poster-child for conservative values. Who has virtually no foreign policy experience. Who as mayor of an Alaskan town of 6,700 hired lobbyists to reel in $27 million in federal pork. That's $4,030 of the U.S. taxpayers' money per resident. We thought McCain wanted to close down the trough.
Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has five children, but she waited until they were grown before she ran for high political office. Palin returned to the job three days after giving birth to a special needs child, all the while her 17-year-old is entertaining a lover. And what about plans to have the girl wed the stud, author of some very unromantic remarks on Facebook? Note that she's been pregnant for five months and still no matrimony. These nuptials couldn't be a last-minute political move, could they?
Palin supporters insist that her out-of-control home life will resonate with many American families. Yes, if they're from Mars or perhaps on welfare.
What a McCain presidency now promises is another four years of Terri Schiavo and other artifacts of the cultural right. You remember Schiavo's husband having to fight the Bush administration and Republican Congress to remove his wife -- in a vegetative state for 15 years -- from life support. It's four more years of national humiliation as our leadership undermines the teaching of evolutionary science, and if something happens to John McCain, opposes stem-cell research.
One tries to untangle McCain's political calculations. The Schiavo case, creationism and similar excesses appeal to a passionate but small slice of the electorate. They are one reason voters are booting Republicans out of power. So while some religious conservatives may be "energized" by the Palin pick, most everyone else is revolted.
You can't figure McCain. He had been doing well up to now -- holding even with Obama in a dreadful year for Republicans and building support among the independents who call the shots in swing states. This Palin deal makes you question not only his judgment, but -- if he really had vetted Sarah Palin -- his sanity.
These people are really flippin idiots. They couldn’t see the goodness of the human person if they fell over it. The smell of superiority and arrogance. More maggot-speak.
This is not a matter of abortion politics, she said, but of managing one’s own affairs.
“Don’t they have birth control up in Alaska?” she asked.
Oh and they have it in New york and California and the rest of the lower 48? Then why the hundreds of thousands of aboprtions every year?
Is this person an idiot or just a hater?
If this writer was my neighbor, I’d build an 8-foot fence between my property and hers.
Sarah Palin, like anyone with the “scent of Christ” about them,
exposes the vile evil that the God hating Satan’s minions are made of.
John 3:20
Yea...right! What is it about lefties having secret friends that never seem to actually exist?
Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has five children, but she waited until they were grown before she ran for high political office. Palin returned to the job three days after giving birth to a special needs child,
First, anyone that holds up stretched face for any reason is a loon.
Second women have been giving birth and getting back to work right after since the beginning of time. Deal with it.
Wow! The culture of death draggs it’s knuckles across the cave floor as it spouts it’s vile dribble.
Sad little creatures.
I’ve had a few Dem “friends” say the same thing. First off, how do we know she wasn’t on birth control? Birth control is not 100% reliable unless you flat out don’t have sex. The pill has 93% to 98% effectiveness. Other contraceptives range from 70 to 95%.
No one knows if she was using birth control or not, so this claim that she didn’t is somewhat ludicrous.
For the record, I support educating my kids on birth control options. I prefer they go the route of abstinence as that’s the only 100% guarantee...not having sex = no pregnancies. But I also understand the realities of the world and as good a parent as I can be, as much guidance as I can give them, I cannot be there 24/7 for them. They have their own minds and will so I give them the information.
She later said “I used birth control with each of my
hundreds of shack ups”
Re: A 44-year-old who parades her dysfunctional family
Exactly what is she referring to with the term “dysfunctional” here? The baby with Down Syndrome?
Absolutely Disgusting.
Apparently it is not really a “choice” with these people, it it?
“Don’t they have birth control up in Alaska?”
The questions should be to the Democrats
Do Democrats believe in men being good fathers to their children?
Levi Johnston should marry Bristol Palin tonight at the Republican convention
In a brief ceremony before McCain’s speech.
They should fly in Clarence Thomas in to officiate.
McCain could be best man and her mom could be maid of honor.
Piper Palin would be the ring bearer.
Or do Democrats even believe in supporting the role of a father in a family?
“Schiavo’s husband having to fight the Bush administration and Republican Congress to remove his wife — in a vegetative state for 15 years — from life support.”
I had thought he was fighting Terry’s mom and dad who were trying to save their daughter. Silly me.
Don't they have birth control in Alaska? They sure would if they sent Froma up there. (Sorry, I don't usually like to take the low road, but these idiots are getting on my nerves.)
NYU graduate, worked for the NYT. Probably never been west of the Hudson.
Sarah Barracuda is not just "any woman."
Libs will be finding that out shortly.
They don't get it.
McCain didn't chose Palin to appeal to the Hillarycrats.
He chose her to appeal to the right-wing of the Republican party.
(((( crickets chirping ))))
Obama: “If they make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby.”
She actually looks kinda like an eskimo..imagine her in a parka!
Piper would steal the show.
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Obama Says A Baby Is A Punishment
Obama: “If they make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby.”
"Don't they have birth control up in Alaska?" she asked."
Who's the evil witch who wrote this tripe?
She doesn't realize that some people actually LIKE children.
” . . . similar excesses appeal to a passionate but small slice of the electorate”
Just as homosexuality, illegal immigration and “affirmative action/reparations” does for the Democrats.
Both.
Her column is good for one thing...lining a birdcage.
RAOW!
Another imaginary Republican who is not anymore voting for McCain because of Sarah Palin. The left wing media keeps on creating these imaginary Republicans all the time. By Elections Day there will not be a single Republican voting for McCain according to the left wing media.
“...parades her dysfunctional family...”
Incedible! That family I saw on TV last night looked fully functional to me. In every sense. From what I know, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama are products of dysfunctional families.
To answer this author’s stupid question: “Yes.”
Will this question be asked of BO’s urban supporters — unmarried welfare queens with six kids by six fathers?
oh, ok. And if BS was worth a nickel a ton....
Don't they have BOTOX in New York?!
She was a backer of John Edwards,
then Hillary Clinton for the 2008 Democratic Nomination
I suppose the mental cripple expects Palin to "abort" her daughter Bristol by throwing her under the bus?
The original writer seems to be litle more then some turd that obama dropped this week.. I mean come on. What a socialist suckup.
Dysfunctional family, out of control family don’t they have birth control in Alaska and on and on. Guess what? We are not voting for Mrs Palin daughter for any office. Nor do I see the issue beyond leftist hate. I mean if you want guilt by association then Obama should be in jail. A pastor that hates America and preaches it for 20 years. A buddy that was (is) a terrorist that sought to kill Americans and overthrow the Government.
I think the writer HOPES that he can convince a few sheep that most of America views Mrs palin as his “friend” does.
Got news for you. As muich as I would hate to see a Communist wannabe like obama be President of the US I was having major trouble bringing myself to vote for McCain. Now. Can’t wait to get to the poll and VOTE McCain/Palin to save America from the Socvialist/Communist....
Why, some of my best friends are Republicans!
Clintoon comes to mind....
It they want to have sex, they will find a way and a place, we did! So, pull your moralistic, religious head out of your a$$ and get “real”. You may not like it but it is a lot better to protect the kids or at least, give them a chance to protect them self's. (because, after you have sex the first time you will want it over and over and over again.......if you are a normal human.
If only Fromma Harrop’s (this has to be a put-on; no rationale person would live with such a screwball name) mother had aborted her!! There is still time however since Fromma believes in killing people after birth!
This whole article is so rife with lies and false innuendo I can’t even read the rest.
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