Bristol Palin chooses life. Now leave her alone.
Photoshop: David Lunde
The Palin family values the sanctity of life. They talk the talk and walk the walk. It is driving the Left absolutely insane beyond the farthest reaches of unhingedness. Now comes the news that 17-year-old daughter Bristol is pregnant. “News” that wouldn’t be news but for the nutroots P.D.S. conspiracy theories that won’t die.
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.
Bristol Palin, one of Alaska Gov. Palin’s five children with her husband, Todd, is about five months pregnant and is going to keep the child and marry the father, the Palins said in a statement released by the campaign of Republican presidential candidate John McCain.
The official family statement on the McCain website:
“We have been blessed with five wonderful children who we love with all our heart and mean everything to us. 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. As Bristol faces the responsibilities of adulthood, she knows she has our unconditional love and support.
“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. We ask the media to respect our daughter and Levi’s privacy as has always been the tradition of children of candidates.”
What will the bottom-feeders do next? Investigate their dating history? Hound them during their pre-natal visits a la Alan Colmes?
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We know what Obama and company think she should have done. Remember?
“Look, I got two daughters — 9 years old and 6 years old,” he said. “I am going to teach them first about values and morals, but if they make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby.
One ticket sees this as a blessing. The other sees it as a curse. Could the core differences between the two be any starker?
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Ed Morrissey shares his experience: “We have walked in the Palins’ shoes.”
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God Bless her and her Family.
Now that is a real Pro-Choice!
I wonder if Bristol Palin will be given the same respect given to Chelsea Clinton…I’m guessing no, unless they decide it’s too politically risky.
Do the libs want to go there?
They anger me to no end. Now the MSM are trying their best to make Bristol’s pregnancy and subsequent birth a “disgrace.” I love that she is giving birth to the child and respecting life and responsibility.
I fear it’s just the beginning. They’ll call her a trollop because she’s having a child out of wedlock or something else slime.
The contrast is powerful. I wish the best to Bristol and her family.
Now let’s talk issues.
The attacks have already started with the KOS kiddies. Remember though, Michelle Obama is off limits according to Barry O. and his minions. Apparently the child of a Republican VP candidate is not.
I doubt many social conservatives will drop away again over this - these days, most of us have had that sort of situation happen in our own families or to the families of friends (a cousin in my case). We know redemption is possible, and how people handle it is just as important. So far, the Palins seem to be doing OK.
But wait - this was a mistake, wasn’t it?? She shouldn’t be punished with a real, live baby.
My first thought was was a cutie that new little one will be.
This is hardly a prolife or prochoice debate. The candidate’s unmarried daughter is 5 months pregnant at 17. It’ll be interesting to see how well that goes over in middle America.
God bless Bristol, her unborn child, and all the Palin’s. What a wonderful pro-life family, who view children what they really are, a blessing from God. I hope Bristol, her child, and her future husband get the privacy and consideration they deserve.
Lunatic left now claiming Trig is actually Willow or Piper’s son in 5, 4, 3, 2..
:::Congratulations Bristol!!!:::
A baby is such a Joyous event!!
I hope many years of Happiness for you, your family and future Husband!!
“It’s not surprising they get anxious, they get get giddy with their religion of murder and antipathy to those who show character as way of explaining their frustrations.” - Barack Obama
Did I quote this
Wright, er … right?MSM is going to try and paint the Palin’s as bad parents. They’re going to say she can’t even manage her own family so she’ll never be able to manage the office of VP. It’s coming.
Getting pregnant at 17 is responsible? I love how we morph these actions into “responsibility”. A guy drinks, drivers, runs down a kid, and turns himself in, and all of the sudden, he’s bring “responsible”.
If Obama has his way, it won’t technically be a baby until a few months after the birth.
and the Trolls are still hoping it hurts!
roflmao
Hey mpchops she’s nearly 18 and this is great news!!
It’s Killin em, and
I Love It!
McCain/Palin 08′
Michelle nailed it.
I’m here in the Convention arena and just finished saying to someone, speculating about this story, “it plays better than Obama’s thoughts on teenage pregnancy”.
GK. I say let ‘em. Ninety percent of Obama’s …errrr…fellow…uhhhh…Trinity Church-goers either give birth out of wedlock or do a shorty-aborty.
MSM Code of Ethics:
Liberal candidates’ private lives: closed
Conservative candidades’ private lives: open season
The left will be even more unhinged with this news.
This news only makes me respect Gov. Palin, and her family, more.
It also inspires a new respect for McCain, that he knew in advance about Bristol’s pregnancy and still wanted Gov. Palin on the GOP ticket.
There’s a hard road ahead for them, but I think they’ll come through just fine in the end.
God bless and keep them all.
Whats amzing this cycle is how overt the hatred has become on the left.
They practically foam at the mouth, they attack children, they spew lies, they indulge in the wildest conspiracies and personal slurs and smears. All with pure MALICE in mind. Hatred drives them.
Have they lost their minds?
DSM-IV will soon have a mental illness called “Leftism” in it, and the Kos Kids and the hard left will prime examples of this schizophrenic, manic paranoia.
They want to go dirty, they just pissed a whole pile of people off that will hurt them like never before.
Need they be reminded people can gather IP addresses, link them to real addresses, look up names in public records, and dig up personal data. Public court records can be published along with names and addresses, as well as their online hatred in their own words. And this need not just be online - their neighbors can get the data as well on an inexpensive flyer put on windshields at their work and home neighborhood.
This was done a long time ago to fight Scientologists and their equally hate filled and low dirty tricks.
Hard ball? Going after kinds?
Just try it punks.
Well said Michelle …
Only reason this was announced now was because of the deranged lefty loons, especially at Kos, with their ridiculous accusations regarding Trig …
As I said in another thread this just makes the Palin family that much more appealing to the common folk by showing they deal with the very same problems as the rest of us …
Nothing but the best to Bristol, Levi and their upcoming baby …
The left preaches “Pro-Choice” … I would say that Bristol has made her “Choice” … now they need to respect her decision and leave her alone …
Maybe this is progress, at least they’re hunting now.
Maybe not, but facing the consequences like adults is. Irresponsibility would be murdering your offspring. Besides, I thought the left believes that you can’t stop children from having sex?
I disagree. If this were my daughter, it would not be “great news”. I would be disappointed that she didn’t protect herself better.
It’ll be interesting seeing the spin from the right on this. Urban kids have babies at 17, it’s a reflection of the parenting. Bristol does, and its “great news”.
They’ll surely attempt to hound her. But the netroots will soon discover the Secret Service has no sense of humor.
I just hope MCcain and crew don’t kick Sarah to the curb for political expediency. It would be a shame to lose this wonderful opportunity over something that is an non issue.
If the Hollywood left handles this news as they do for celebrity unmarried expecting couples, they will have glowing stories on all the tabloid TV celebrity shows.
Read it here.
The Miracle of Life…
That about covers it.
May God Bless Bristol and all our children.
The decision she made to conceive a baby was not responsible, but the decision to have the baby was. Her family has taught her that a baby is not a punishment, but a blessing, and that the responsible thing to do will be to have the baby.
sorry aj…a high school kid getting pregnant is not “good news”. It’s a complete non-issue to me regarding Palin’s qualifications (or lack thereof) to be VP, but let’s try to keep it just a little bit real. One of the take aways for me based on my understanding regarding Palin’s views on birth control and reproductive education is that abstinence only education does not work. Palin’s daughter and her boyfriend should have been using birth control.
Put it this way:
Palin says its a blessing. They will have the child, and the whole family will help out.
Obama said…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbZJYWjkAPo
“If they make a mistake I don’t want them punished with a baby.”
Anyoen brings that up, you bring up “punished with a baby”
I just read about this on another website and the liberal comments sickened me. They are not worth repeating here becasue all you have to do is think of the lowest scumbag thing to say and the libs say it (with pride). Living in this world today is harder and harder for a teen with all the immoral crap being shoved down their throats. Just public billboards are very close to full blown porn these days. TV shows and movies glorify homosexual lifestyle and single mothers as well as all things immoral and……..people actually laugh at this crap. My TV has a layer of dust on it because it hasn’t been turned on for so long. I wish everyone (libs) would just shut and leave the Palin’s alone and maybe even say a prayer for them.
Getting pregnant, accepting responsibility by keeping the baby and not turning to the gum’mint and taxpayers for support is responsibility.
You wouldn’t know that because you don’t see it happen in your hood. Expand your horizons.
Gee, wasn’t The One conceived out of wedlock? Did I get that wrong?
I would be willing to wager that the father of Bristol’s child will not commit an act of bigamy by marrying her, unlike Obama’s father.
I thought Obama said that families were off limits? I suppose that makes his fair game as well? I really don’t think the liberal left wants to go there.
No doubt that some lowlife will take this story as proof that she wasn’t a fit enough mother as governor and that as VP she would be a horrific mother for her special needs son. I hate to even think that, but then again, her first stump speech wasn’t two hours old before lefties were scrambling to insinuate that she’s abandoning the child to run for office and it wasn’t two days later that the morons concocted the Grandmagate Conspiracy…
*sigh*
Well, at least someone on the national stage is demonstrating the power of love and family. Now if only the left didn’t see that as a bad thing…
This is the same phoney indignation the left had against cheney when his daughter came out about being gay.
Seems your only allowed to be certain things if your a democrat else its a crime if your a republican.
b-cat,
“Facing the consequences” implies that the act itself was negative, which what I’m trying to say. People here are already trying to spin it like “Yes! She’s pregnant! Awesome!”
Amen, Michelle and readers.
Dear Leftist Nutroot Moonbats:
We Like Sarah Palin
So…get over it.
:ALL TROLLS READ THE FAMILY STATEMENT:
Now you may return to LA LA Land.
It’s Killin em, and
I Love It!
McCain/Palin 08′
Why do we conservatives need to constantly defend our humanity. Bristol is pregnant now leave her alone.
GEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The MSM folks are already claiming the “gamble” McCain took with a “reckless” decision in choosing someone like Palin is backfiring on him. And how it shows poor judgment on his part and reinforces the claim that he’s not capable of making good decisions.
Don’t these people have a hurricane to report on or what?
34 posts was all it took today?
This really is unfortunate. Now the MSM will paint the Palins as bad parents, hypocrites, and unfit for office. The truth is, even “perfect” parents can have children who aren’t perfect.
I don’t know them personally, but from what I can see, they sound like they are good parents. How so, you ask? Their daughter did something she shouldn’t have, that is true. But notice her response - not to follow that error in judgment with another by killing the child, but facing the consequences and doing her best to make it right - to marry the child’s father and have the baby.
That shows you what kind of values the Palins instilled in their children. If you mess up, don’t cover it up, but do what you can to make things right.
mpChops,
No, getting pregnant out of wedlock at 17 isn’t responsible. Taking responsibility for the consequences of your actions IS.
Fixed it for you. Urban kids have babies and yo yo yo, Daddy-o is never heard from again. How do I know? My tax dollars are being used to feed, house, clothe and school these future perps.
The hipocrisy is astounding!
Obama’s mother was only 18 years of age when she had Barak, and chances are she was pregnant at age 17.
The Left is already pushing the idea that Trig actually was still Bristol’s..Palin covered up for her for media attention and because it is a special needs child (apparently wearing a pregnancy suit).
Ugh…I hate the fact their family is being put through this on the national stage. How wonderful is it, though, that that they have embraced this news and welcome it? THAT is pro-life.
Admittedly, all this is making me a little nervous, though!
Here’s the “spin”:
Yes, the Palins acknowledge that Bristol and her fiance have to face growing up sooner than they probably should have. But they are doing the right thing by choosing life for their baby, and deciding to give the baby the best chance in growing up with a married mother and father, with an extended, loving family.
I find it interesting that that a libtard suddenly professes “puritanical” disapproval when the shoe is on the other foot.
Hypocrite.
I completely agree: from now on, lets leave all pregnant women alone.
For you to start crying?
The BS started at post #8.
Call the waaaaahmbulance if you need a ride.
Awesome point! But as I said before…that fact is closed for discussion with regards the MSM’s code of ethics.
Shhhhhhhh!
I didn’t realize Bristol was married.
And no, I disprove of any women getting pregnant at 17.
Oh darn, I have to say something nice about McCain again. First I said good choice for VP in Palin, now I have to say good choice in continuing to choose Palin for VP.
Pro-Choice, put up AND shut up. Choice means deciding which option to choose.
I’m Pro-Life myself, there are no choices, but for leftists, they now need to STFU. Sorry for the strong language, but I am sooooooo sick of this whole thing I could vomit.
Die Hippie, Die,
Ok.
Obama’s mother was an unwed teenager. Let the dems try to disqualify her on that note and they will be eaten alive over it.
Still trying to rain on our Parade, sour grapes over the Pi$$ poor speech by Odopey, and the ZERO BUMP from Bidet as their Disappointing VP pick..
ahahahhahahahaha
It’s Killin em and
I Love It!
McCain/Palin 08!!!
Unless…you’re…the…babydaddy. Then…you…step…up…and…marry…the…girl.
She’s getting married…
I suppose you would’ve been happier if she had gotten an abortion? Is that what you want? If the shoe fits I suppose.
Anything to support your “platform”.
So Palin should withdrawl because her daughter got pregnant and she kept running for office
Can I ask barry Obama to withdrawl for running for office after he admitted doing hard drugs in books setting an example for his two daughters yet still chose to run for President ?
Mention of Colmes brings this to mind.
Are conservative commentators still willing to appear on H&C given Colmes’s dive into the dirt?
Nope, not at all responsible. No female should have a child unless she can take care of it without using my tax dollars. But that won’t happen here…mommy is a governor!
Here’s food for thought:
Is being pro-life a choice? The reason I ask is because if it is, than choosing to keep the baby can be thought of as being responsible. However, there was an argument being made that being pro-life isn’t a choice. If it isn’t a choice, how can keeping the baby be seen as being responsible, if there is no alternative?
No surprise the left make wild accusations - they’ve got nothing left to lose.
Wait, we’re criticizing Obama for his mother having him out of wedlock? Gotcha.
mpChops, glad you are so secure in your morality. Too bad you don’t have any emotions or hormones. I had a lapse of judgement at one time, hormones overroad my christian upbringing but the result of that lapse of judgement turns 40 this year, and I just celebrated my 40th anniversary. I’m not proud of my lapse of judgment, but I’m sure proud of my choices since.
You fools on the left crack me up…
How on earth did you get so STUPID!?
As the father of a teenage daughter I see this for the grim blow it has to be. Not in the long run — I trust that it will all work out. But I can picture that conversation in the living room….Good luck to the family for dealing with this. I’ll babysit.
That being said, I suspect that it would be better for the Palin Family and the Republican ticket if Governor Palin went back to Juneau and took care of business there.
In the mean time, I trust we won’t have any lectures on family values, irresponsible liberals or abstinence-only sex education for the next two months.
No, I want here to keep running. I can’t wait until the debates when they start talking about birth-control vs. abstinence only education.
On September 1st, 2008 at 1:41 pm, FamilyMan said:
FamilyMan, it’s because we expect sub-human behavior from libs. We conservatives are held to a much higher standard because everyone knows that we aspire to truth, love, and righteousness. Libs, on the other hand, stand for lying, cheating, corruption, and a general love of darkness. No one is surprised by these pigs when they wallow in the mud.
The libs need to judge EDWARDS….you know……being MARRIED, having an affair, and a baby out of wedlock……BEFORE judging a young girl.
Wow a politician who does the right things in an awkward and common situation…these left wing bottom feeders are stupid as bricks-Alan Colmes too.
Way to go! Everyone makes mistakes. It’s how we respond to those mistakes that shows our true character.
I’m pretty much a social conservative.
Bristol made a mistake, and is now correcting that mistake in one of the two best methods,
It will be s struggle, but rather than making her little one face her consequences with its death, she is going to marry the father, and grow up a bit sooner.
Things are just fine with me.
It seems to me bho’s black daddy that he glorfies so much had sex with his white momma and ditched her. Then his typical white grandma raised him. So now I suppose Bristol will be punished with a child and America will be punished with bho.
Im sorry to burst your bubble but isnt Obama himself running on teens taking personal responcibility for their actions ? Obama is telling people to do exactly what the Palin’s did in this instance.
mpChops said:
Getting pregnant and going around strutting about how you don’t “need a man” is one thing. And then doing it again, and again, having several children with several men, all the while having no intention to get married, that is one thing.
But getting pregnant, and then getting married, is a completely different thing.
So is the idea of getting pregnant, and choosing to kill your “punishment” rather than taking responsibility.
If people question the Palin’s morality, just compare it to Obama’s morality of killing off the “punishment”. Any attack against the Palins boomerangs against the Obamas.
And your argument can be used against you.
You are saying that pro birth control education works? Have you been to an inner city lately? Despite the gazillions of dollars that have been poured into our public schools on contraception education, not to mention free condoms, we still see an epidemic of teen pregnancy.
No significant number of Americans are going to be fooled by these types of cheap attacks..
Everyone knows Teenagers have minds of their own, & will do things that you don’t think they are ready for, whether you like it or not, unless you’re able to follow them everywhere, all the time.
Obviously, no parent is able to do that.
This whole situation saddens me, but I am glad she chose to keep the baby. A 17 yr. old having a baby and getting married isn’t a joyous occasion. It is sad.
They have a hard road ahead of them, not to mention the next 9 or 10 weeks of constant media attention.
Not sure if Sarah Palin was wise to accept this position knowing how this would affect her pregnant daughter.
Wow, that sums it up better than any comment I could ever come up with. You nailed it on the head Michelle.
A lib friend of mine just emailed me about this. She thinks the McCain Camp did this to curry favor with Lifers and they’re just exploiting a teenager - guess the talking points have hit the streets.
Well if you believe in abortion it’s an easier secret to keep. Based on what happened in Illinois, I assume Obama would be ok if she threw it in a linen closet.
As pointed out above, Obama himself was conceived out of wedlock, so presumably all the “bad parenting” skills comments apply to his Grandmother, and all the “irresponsible” comments made about Bristol apply to Obama’s mother. Does the left want to go there? The MSM wants to paint Obama’s mother as a strong single parent but they’re going to smear Bristol.
Hey dakine, condoms break, the pill doesn’t always work, & you don’t know that they weren’t using it, so shut your ignorant puss..
The left wouldn’t be this desparate if they were by polls WAY AHEAD in the presidential race, and they are not, so they have to behave like cheap sh#t.
(If the left weren’t upset about Palin, I’d be worried
)
Well LGM what do you have to say for your brothers and sisters on the left?…we are waitiiiing!
My son has been in prison for the past 4 years and NOT because of anything that I taught him. Sarah’s daughter is pregnant and NOT because of anything she taught her.
Another thought just occured to me, what a great opportunity for a White House Wedding! Yes, they can.
The pond scum on the left might be celebrating and congratulating themselves for this…thinking it might affect some voters.
Not this one. I wasn’t a fan of McCain, liked what I saw when he picked Palin and thought I could make the effort then to vote for the ticket.
After this slimy BULL$H!T from the left, I would crawl through a mile of broken glass to vote for McCain/Palin.
Keep it up jackasses, it will drive even more to the ticket.
And how can the potential vice-president even address this issue?
This shouldn’t even be an issue. I am glad that Palin’s daughter has chosen to make the more adult decision of keeping her baby. Only the left would think that some how they can score political points with this event. They offer no congratulations for Palin’s daughter, or even support and understand that they claim to cultivate and have a monopoly on. Rather, they think that this will cause Palin to lose the middle America voting block. Truly, the left just doesn’t get it. I respect her all the more for coming out with this.
Sure, if Obama will withdraw from the campaign too for being the “mistake” of a teen pregnancy.
This,too, shall pass.
Any bets that Biden will have a John Edwards moment in the debates (when he asked Cheney about his lesbian daugher)?
If that’s all they have, they have nothing and are still running scared, as they should be.
Keep on talking trash, Dems…you’ll get more people to vote for McCain.
She’ll be able to address it with empathy instead of the pseudo-sympathy the left is famous for.
Teen pregnancies are not ideal, but hello, this has been happening forever. You love, you make mistakes, you see the blessing for what it is and decide to not only make the best of it but live a joyful and successful life anyway. Welcome to normal human existence.
The only way Sarah Palin would have been found lacking integrity is if she had thrown her daughter out of the house or urged her to run out for an abortion.
As it stands, Mrs. Palin is still on the right side of the issues. She still gets my vote. Let the haters on the left embarrass themselves with their comments…it’s what they do best!
Thanks GuitarPlayer, I sure learned a lot from my youth. One VERY important lesson was to be incredibly non-judgemental. And that was a good thing.
MM, perhaps Captain Ed will consent to have some of his best articles - dealing with his daughter-in-law’s and son’s graduations - re-run on HotAir.
chsw
She asked her family how they felt about it, & they supported her..
So rest assured that YOU don’t have to be sure if it’s a good decision or not..
Well, unless you believe in the socialst practice of making life decisions for other people..
I thought Barry Obama’s daddy had several wives at the same time. Maybe we should have that come up in a national debate since families are apparently fair game.
Good on Palin’s kid. She’s young, but she’s responsible. And I hate to break it to those in big cities, but lots of women are preggers by 17. Especially in smaller towns. It certainly doesn’t make them anything but real young mothers.
On September 1st, 2008 at 1:31 pm, mpChops said:
mpChops, In your example there is a victim. In Bristol’s case there is no victim – unless she goes “pro choice”