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GOP hopeful’s 17-year-old daughter pregnant [Bill Cassidy, the challenger to Mary Landrieu]
Politico ^ | July 3, 2014 | JAMES HOHMANN

Posted on 07/04/2014 9:14:01 PM PDT by grundle

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To: Viennacon; All

That is tag-line worthy!


81 posted on 07/05/2014 1:49:21 PM PDT by Axenolith (Government blows, and that which governs least, blows least...)
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To: FR_addict

Love isn’t the issue. This has been studied forever. Humans need a mother and a father. Children not raised in families (mother & father) generally are handicapped by it. Once the children suffer, the society they inhabit suffer. Inner city mothers love their children, it doesn’t change the outcome. Money isn’t a substitute for a mother and father.


82 posted on 07/05/2014 2:26:22 PM PDT by Varda
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To: jocon307
Thanks for explaining that, I was wondering about it too. Is that a regional expression? I’ve never heard it before.

It's commonly used in college sports recruiting, that's where I first learned it.

83 posted on 07/05/2014 2:29:24 PM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: grundle
“Earlier this year, Laura and I learned we will become grandparents this summer,” Cassidy, 56, said in the statement. “Our children have been the greatest blessing of our lives and we welcome our grandchild as a joyous addition to our family. Our daughter now faces a more challenging future than her peers. She has our unconditional love and support.”

Now THAT's getting out in front of it!

84 posted on 07/05/2014 2:31:42 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Border Crisis = Cloward-Piven, Chicano-style!)
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To: re_nortex

I’d only eschew voting for Mr. Cassidy if HE HIMSELF got a teenage girl pregnant.


85 posted on 07/05/2014 2:35:48 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Border Crisis = Cloward-Piven, Chicano-style!)
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To: grundle
17-year-old became pregnant

STOP THE PRESSES!!! First time ever!!! 17-year-old female becomes pregnant!!!

Now the religious fruitcakes are going to throw another Senate seat back to the communist Democrats. Idiots!

86 posted on 07/05/2014 2:42:56 PM PDT by meadsjn
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To: Varda
“Love isn’t the issue. This has been studied forever. Humans need a mother and a father. Children not raised in families (mother & father) generally are handicapped by it. Once the children suffer, the society they inhabit suffer. Inner city mothers love their children, it doesn’t change the outcome. Money isn’t a substitute for a mother and father.”

Of course children are better off having a mother and a father who both love them, but a child raised in a loving family with a mother and supportive grandparents can be just as well off. It is very possible that this young girl will find someone to love both her and her baby, especially with a family support system. Taking your theory a little further, if a mother of young children were to get a divorce, the children would be better off if she gave them up for adoption. Hog wash. What about widows? I guess they should give up their young babies too.

87 posted on 07/05/2014 6:40:20 PM PDT by FR_addict
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To: Varda

Ahem, when God weighs in saying that He is love... maybe we had BETTER consider it an issue. Just sayin’.


88 posted on 07/05/2014 6:42:45 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: meadsjn

I would second the fear here... again in those terms, “religious fruitcakes.”

That isn’t the same as worshipful people.

When our worship ceases to be an empty shell, it will look for ways to help people in unfortunate circumstances, even if those circumstances were partly their own fault.


89 posted on 07/05/2014 6:44:58 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Viennacon

>> the [Left] holds Republicans to 1950s standards

The Left has a deranged view of everything including its benighted perception of conservatives as facile automatons.


90 posted on 07/05/2014 6:55:36 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: FR_addict
Your failure to understand doesn't relieve the situation of it's reality. Like I said this has been studied for decades. Children of divorce are damaged by it , the logical solution to destructive behavior it is to discourage it not to delete the only parent left. Widows are not single parents. They and their results cluster with other married parents.

Children "raised in a loving family with a mother and supportive grandparents can be just as well off."

Except they aren't. They are outliers that do well but in general what you get is inner city America.

That children need a mother and a father cannot be equated to an “emotional support structure” . That's the kind of reasoning behind gay marriage and gay adoptions.

91 posted on 07/06/2014 4:52:28 AM PDT by Varda
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To: HiTech RedNeck

Love isn’t a substitute for the other needs of a child. Even God didn’t have his only Son raised by a single mother. Just sayin’.


92 posted on 07/06/2014 4:57:44 AM PDT by Varda
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To: HANG THE EXPENSE
It takes two to tango and the young mans life is radically changed as well.

Odds are he's 17 as well and won't be in the picture.

Did no one explain the concept of birth control to her?

93 posted on 07/06/2014 4:58:10 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: blueplum
His daughter took an anti-abortion stance and chose life over death.

Also an anti-birth control stance apparently.

If liberal wackos choose to pick on her, they must chose death over life in their argument.

If they raise it at all it'll be to criticize the 'abstinence over birth control' argument. If he takes any flack over this it'll be from his more socially conservative supporters. At the end of the day I doubt it impacts the election at all.

But the election is not the important issue. A baby is about to be born to a 17 year old who almost certainly lacks the maturity to be a mother. Statistics show that it's the baby who will suffer in the long run. I hope this is the exception to the rule.

94 posted on 07/06/2014 5:07:39 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: Reddy

May not have been widely talked bout,but it happened in 1950 too. And 1850, 1750......


95 posted on 07/06/2014 5:09:42 AM PDT by AFreeBird
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To: Reddy

“This isn’t l950.”

What’s that got to do with anything, my sister in law got pregnant at 16 in 1951.


96 posted on 07/06/2014 5:20:05 AM PDT by dalereed
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To: Varda

“Your failure to understand doesn’t relieve the situation of it’s reality.”

I guess you think Bristol Palin should have given her child away. Her baby is much better off without his father in the picture.

If anything happens to Bristol, her parents are there for her son. Bristol will meet a good guy. She’s bright and beautiful, but made a mistake. There are lots of men who become great step-fathers.

“That children need a mother and a father cannot be equated to an “emotional support structure” . That’s the kind of reasoning behind gay marriage and gay adoptions.”

That’s stupid to compare a woman keeping her baby to gay marriage and adoptions.


97 posted on 07/06/2014 7:03:10 PM PDT by FR_addict
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To: Varda

“Widows are not single parents. They and their results cluster with other married parents.”

After bereavement, widows will try to find someone to share their life with, just as single women. They may at first hang around with married friends, but eventually they will be moving in the single circuit. It’s only natural.

I don’t know why you are dismissing the grandparents. The grandfather will be there as a male role model in this case. I’ve known many grandparents who have helped the children and grandchildren.


98 posted on 07/06/2014 7:16:54 PM PDT by FR_addict
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To: DoodleDawg

Some folks(parents) wont even contemplate the possibility that their little girl would be having sex. I will be watching mine like a hungry hawk.


99 posted on 07/06/2014 11:05:50 PM PDT by HANG THE EXPENSE (Life's tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
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To: GeronL

Sorry, that is NOT a reason.


100 posted on 07/07/2014 7:16:18 PM PDT by CatDancer (tagline expired)
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