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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ABC also said that Bristol was absent from school for “5 to eight months”, further spreading the rumore that it was possible for Trig to be hers. Pathetic.
Well, if Dan Lee says so, then it must be so. He does have his own “political” blog after all. I wish we could put some dough on this one Danny boy. I’m a McCain guy from way back (pops went to Annapolis with him) and I’ll be voting for him despite his ridiculous pick of the most unqualified candidate in POTUS/VPOTUS history, but I think he’s going down big time sorry to say.
Ok Dakine, totally uncivil and uncalled for.
dakine, I couldn’t care less who you vote for, because you’re a good argument for IQ requirements & testing for voters..
Personal attacks (in the way of profanity) in response to ones answers to questions or beliefs is totally uncalled for. If you look at my comments, I have not used any hate or name calling. So why attack me as such?
What these idiots in the MSM and seemingly some on this blog don’t seem to realize is that this happens everyday in every city and town in America. I went throught this with my own daughter a couple a years ago and have a beautiful grandson as a result. It wasn’t expected, but you deal with it and move on. Now I have Logan as the Palens will have a bundle of joy soon.
Excellent Starlight! This is why ABC calling it a “Bomb Shell” is so pathetic. This is worse than yellow journalism. It is purposeful negative spin.
So Dakine would you be doing cartwheels if he had picked Joseph Lieberman for VP?
Lets see–Slick Willy gets serviced by an intern in the oval office, lies to all his top cabinet members, to the American people, and under oath—Fact. The mantra of the left and the MSM was it was a private matter between his family and his God. Now it’s open season on the Palin family. What a bunch of scumbag liars and hate mongers.
Some on this blog might be naive enough to think that, but I suspect the Main STream Media knows exactly what they are doing when they come up with their hypocrite criticisms..
Like I said before.. They are the ones championing the movie Juno as some kind of Pulitzer prize deserving masterpiece.. As long as there’s a moonbat family at the center of the controversy, it’s ok.. “Nothing to see here” if this were a liberal family we were talking about.. This would not even make the news.
It’s going to resonate enormously with every loving American parent whether poor, middle or rich. And yes it does splay wide open the prolife/prochoice debate because it contrasts the true American spirit of taking on the added challenge of an unexpected arrival in your family with care and compassion versus the un-american, selfish and detestably wicked ‘solution’ of running away from such news by marching your daughter down to Planned Parenthood. Most parents will easily recognize that the path the Palins are walking is the way of love.
Oh eidelweiss, you can educate someone not to do something stupid, and many will still try to do it…at least she and the boyfriend are getting married and choosing not to murder their baby, which is what you would so blithely advocate (I really feel your civilized persona today /sarc).
You dems/socailists don’t have anything substantive on the Palins and you are so freaking desparate…you just make me smile as you convulse with innuendo today
Danny, save the school yard insults. You want to start comparing package sizes, I’m guessing based on the content of your “blog” you’re going to lose.
Jamie, you equated homosexuality with having sex with animals. That makes you a jackass and a bigot.
rumba, Lieberman wouldn’t have been my first choice, but it would have been light years better than Palin.
dakine, I’m going to let you have the last word on that “package” thing, because you’re doing a great job showing how infinitely retarded you truly are.
Do you drive a Monster truck too?
Thanks for the link.
Dakine said:
No I didn’t. Please re-read my comment.
Secondly … your attacks and language are completely uncivil and uncalled for.
I’ll let you know that any further conversing with you would be pointless, so I am announcing my silence to any additional comments that you may post.
I gotta admit. That is one BIG point…
Not to mention that it assumes that teaching someone somthing equates to mind control.. People who say things like this are completely ignorant.
The funny thing is with Liberals, as soon as a parent tries to lock their child up to keep her away from a boyfriend, they are the first ones to claim child abuse! mental abuse!
Liberals are double minded at every turn.
Actually, ROB didn’t say that… he was just quoting another poster…
I am told that Rob is actually very bright and extremely good looking.
I sould have said “This is what happens when the feds start to regulate toilets. Now you have to flush twice if you don’t want an Omu…or a Rob…or a dakine.
Lay off the ad hominem attacks on posters and stay on topic, you two knuckleheads. Spare us the PC name calling too. This is the last place that crap will fly.
I believe Libs are still teenagers, that’s why they don’t understand and want to point the blame on everyone else.
McCain/Palin 08′ (you go girl!)
Dear Trolls and Daily Kos,
Fear. That is why you are unhinged and full of hate and insanity.
Fear. You know that Gov. Palin has united and electrified the GOP like no one else in recent history.
Fear. In two days, the Mccain/Palin campaign made 12 million dollars in donations after she joined McCain to win the election this year—-yes, we will win.
Fear. The selection of Gov. Palin knocked the coronation of Obama off the front page.
Fear. There was no bump in the polls, even after the second coming and near rapture on Thursday night.
Fear. The conservative base of the Grand Old Party (aka, for you morons: the Republican party)is going to be heard from on 11/4/08 in numbers not seen since 2000.
You have reason to fear even more thanks to the Daily Kos. Now go to bed.
And take a cow or a pig with you. It’s your right!
Re: this post, I knew Rob didn’t say it.. I should have clarified. Sorry Rob..
Not my intent…but Funnny!
I’ve been browsing the left-wing sites all day and am in physical pain over the vitriolic and disgusting comments that are being written.
I’m done.
What a bunch of sad, hateful people. The website hosts are just as bad, Arianna Huffington, being the worst of all. She hasn’t had a coherent thing to say since she switched teams after finding out she wasn’t going to be first lady of California.
I’m getting here late cuz I work nights, but I gotta say, I’m pretty surprised at the number of conservatives here that are all like “She chose life! How wonderful! God bless her!! How joyous!” (Granted, I haven’t read all 400 comments)
There is nothing wonderful about a girl of 17 being pregnant and unwed. So she’s not aborting it; does she deserve a cookie or something? You’re not supposed to abort it in the first place!! For people who constantly complain about the country’s morality to be going down the sewer (which is totally a hallmark of the conservative right, hell I admit I do it all the time) to blow this off as if it’s nothing is absolutely hypocritical. I’ll bet this has already been brought up, but what about the outrage over Jamie Lynn Spears and what her “example” sets for the “children”? Now, Bristol Palin is not Jamie Lynn Spears, but she is on the national stage now, regardless.
Personally, I don’t really care about her being preggers. She comes from a strong family and will be ok. But for us to sit here and say yet another pregnant American teenager is no big deal is pretty absurd. We complain constantly that America is becoming more permissive in matters of morality, and now that it’s in our camp, we decide it’s no big deal?
That’s nothing if not hypocritical.
This all shows terrible judgement by McCain and Palin. How could he offer her the VP slot, knowing full well her daughter would get dragged through the mud? How was this NOT going to be a huge story? She should have protected her daughter and said NO!
Thank you for your service. Without folks like you, our fast food drive-thrus would close at 8:00.
Odd. You seem to be awfully agitated by this thread.
BS. She’s marrying the father. Don’t forget that humans were procreating long before the institution of marriage. The important thing is that she’s not turning to the gum’mint fo help.
Jeez, you’re an idiot.
Anywho — welcome back, 30. Hope your vacation was restful and seemed longer than it was.
Fair enough. Those that get AIDS should accept their mistake, live with the consequences and not ask for public sympathy or assistance.
No. Spelling judgment with two e’s is terrible judgment. McCain chose Sarah Palin for his VP, not Bristol Palin.
How much judgment was exercised by the bleeding-heart Democrats in nominating someone whose brother lives in a mud hut in Kenya? Hmmmmm?
LMC:
And run the risk of being libeled as homophobes for denying them the joys of parading down Folsom Street in assless chaps and quilting?
I sure hope Sarahcuda is up to the task ahead of her. Otherwise in 2012 may I suggest Jindal and Bachmann?
Die Hippie, Die: Quibbling over spelling is hardly the strongest rebuttal. She should have spared her daughter this embarrassment.
I hope you said the EXACT same thing to Bill Clinton.
If you believe she is the most unqualified candiate in history. you are either: not reading all the posts explaining her qualifications over Obama’s total lack of qualitifications OR you are simbly brain dead.
People, it’s the 21st century. Girls who get pregnant out of wedlock are not shunned to the back alleys of society. What is so embarrassing about this for Bristol? Do you think she cares what the nation thinks of her? Well, she shouldn’t.
She should care that her parents are supporting her. She should care that the young man involved is concerned enough to make a commitment to her (though I think it’s risky to get married so young; that is something about which she ALSO has a choice). She should care about keeping herself healthy and choosing the right pre-natal care for her personal health needs.
Caring enough to be embarrassed by a bunch of outraged and judgmental strangers? I hardly think so.
And to those who would accuse me of suggesting “this is no big deal”, that is not what I’m suggesting. What I am suggesting is that this is not the kind of thing that should tear apart a young girl’s life or her family’s life, nor is it something that should disqualify her mother from holding elected office.
Clearly your reasoning is worse than your spelling.
If her daughter is embarrassed–an assumption on your part–it’s because she has a conscience, not because a bunch of drooling Kossacks are inseminating their keyboards.
Bristol’s Mom isn’t embarrassed. Her daughter will marry the father and they’ll start a family.
What John-boy Edwuhds has done…that’s embarrassing to his family.
My money is on brain dead…brah!
Excellent point, DHD.
Obama has come out strongly telling the MSM to leave the candidates’ families out of the race for the Presidency. Didn’t think that I’d ever agree 100% with one of his statements.
OK libs. Here’s your short course.
Study hard. You’ll be tested for the rest of your life.
Speaking of Edwards – how many months did the MSM pretend a Presidential contender wasn’t cheating on his wife? But a 17 year old gets pregnant and the dumpster divers are flooding Alaska…
Think you’ve got this backwards, DHD.
So you would be more in favor of a pick that renders our selection to between two sets of democrats for public office…interesting…who then would have been your pick for sure then?
The only poor judgement was that briefly by a young teenage girl. Surprise, the best parenting in the world cannot trump a teenager’s free will and having a daughter become pregnant out of wedlock is hardly something ‘new’ in the history of the world.
But having a politician who is perfectly honest about it happening and who accepts the added dimension that this unexpected situation will bring to her and her family – now that is something refreshingly new and welcomed. There is just no kind of ‘mud’ that will affect people like that; those in a strong God loving family. Others may drag but the only result will be their exhaustion.
FightThePalinSmears.com now has all the smears that are fit to print.
Actually, Vicki, to be more precise in this case it’s being “pregnant befoe wedlock”. It wouldn’t surprise me if half our elected officials had found thenselves in that very same spot before their nuptials.
I wish the young couple all the best, marriage and a baby are major life adjustments even for folks twice their age. But Bristol has some tough blood running in her veins.
But is this good for Michelle Obama’s children, attacking Sarah Palin’s children?
Excellent point, purplepeep; thank you for clarifying the issue.
Here’s the extra special part – Kos refused and still refuses to run anything on the Edwards story! After all, he is not running for office. Now.
I just heard Juan Williams saying that McCain should have disclosed this at the time he announced Palin as his choice for veep. That is also the latest smear over at HuffPo: “What did he know and when did he know it?”
Wow.
This is clearly the most desperate time on the left that I’ve seen in a very long time. They are very, very afraid of the GOP ticket.
Yeah, I should have a nickel for every young couple who have ever walked down the aisle when the bride was enceintes.
Oh No! And this just out about Bristol’s fiance:
Well, that will be raw, red meat for the left!
Oh, no! It’s worse than Watergate!!!
(By the way, shouldn’t that read “raw white meat” – fish, y’know)
That was so excellent I just had to re-post it! All of those were excellent points! +1
My wife and I made the same mistake that Bristol did… and took responsibility just like her and her fiancee. Both of our families were disappointed, but supportive.
We now have 4 kids (our oldest ready to start college) and can’t imagine our lives any other way. Yes, its harder starting out, and I will keep Bristol and her fiancee, their baby, and all the families in my prayers.
I think you’re right… liberals are pessimists that gamble on the destruction of morals and lives… and celebrate when they “win”.
P.S. And “nero” should be banned. His comments went way over the line.
While it’s not the ideal, there is just as often something to be gained from sharing tough times – as I expect you already know. We usually don’t see it too clearly at the time, but that’s the nature of life – experiences and the wisdom gleaned from them are cumulative things.
You are so right, dominigan . Those who refuse to appropriate grace into their lives cannot begin to extend any grace to others. Neither, apparently, can they even tolerate it, let alone understand it, when others do.
True. You just don’t run into a whole lot of Conservative anarchists, do ya? To Democrats they are respected heroes, e.g. William Ayers.
How will this all play out? It all depends on whether the loony lefties have the brains and the discipline to follow Obama’s injunction and shut up. I would say that to many Americans, those who make excuses in public for Bristol’s out-of-wedlock pregnancy while preaching puritanism to the rest of us smell of hypocrisy and scandal, while the MSM are likely to start asking what did McCain know and when did he know it. However, since the nutroots are too stupid to spare dragging Bristol through the mud instead of letting us ordinary people form our own opinion in silence, this issue will benefit nobody and the public will feel slimed IMHO. Wouldn’t it be nice to debate real issues, such as national security and illegal immigration?
This should not be a political issue.. Glass houses….
On September 1st, 2008 at 4:37 pm, Die Hippie, Die said:
Ok, DHD, you almost made me spew my drink. Good one!
Geez,you’re a libtard!
I’m agitated by the attitude of commenters here, not on the young lady being pregnant. It’s called “reading comprehension.” You might want to brush up on it.
I wrote: That’s nothing if not hypocritical.
You wrote:
I’m not sure what point of mine you’re addressing here. Again, I’m not talking about the young woman, my comments were about other comments left here. Again, “reading comprehension.” Look into it.
That’s just insulting for the sake of being insulting, and proves along with your inability to actually understand my post, that you’re just a stupid a$$hole.
But nice try.
I have been watching Larry King Live tonight and am appalled at the things that the Democrat talking heads are saying about Gov. Palin. I sent many emails to Larry King because he allowed one commentor to say that Gov Palin will probably be “in prison” by the November elections. Obviously, they nor Larry King have any ethics. Please help me to email Larry King and to protest CNN by turning off the Larry King show when it is on.
BO has experience: making back room deals with felons, selling his soul for long term relationships with low life scum such as domestic terrorists and religious nut cases, buying into the anti-civilization schemes of the radical Alinsky – who else would dedicate a book to Satan himself, using race to harm others and advance himself.
He intends to punish this nation and destroy anyone who gets in his way. Whatever he was, he has been exposed to millions of mindless followers who only know that BO is going to save the world and believe every word he tells them no matter how ridiculous – this is the poison that drives humans insane from Howard Hughes to Stalin, to Leona Helmsly. He is surrounded by those who cannot distinguish right from wrong, fact from fiction, and indeed want BO to lead them. No one to tell him the truth about himself. Already he is showing the signs of believing all the propaganda his campaign releases about him. No one can honestly disagree with BO on any issue – their heresy is merely racism and should be punished.
BO also has associated himself with groups that specialize in voter fraud and this year the Dems are going all out to steal every vote. We need volunteers from the NRA to monitor every polling station and to counter any intimidation from the thugs BO will be sending. Our military men and women need to remember Florida 2000 and how the Dems tried to disenfranchise them and monitor the voting too. We will need to set up legal teams to counter illegal actions by crooked liberal judges to alter voting laws during or after the balloting.
Let me ask the trolls something:
We can all agree that murder is wrong, correct?
So as a society, we tell our children that it is wrong to murder.
Nevertheless, some of our children still go out and commit murder.
So does it follow then that we should no longer tell our children to refrain from murder because telling them does not work?
Please enlighten us.
On September 2nd, 2008 at 1:14 am, atheling said:
L
Hi, atheling. You are up late …as am I!
Sometimes I wonder why we do this. That is, contend with ideas, lies, and truth (and sometimes even evil). Emotionally, it gets very exhausting and frustrating, as I’m sure you will agree. Yet, it is worth it. The Enemy’s attacks only serve to make us sharper.
Blessings on you and others on this blog who are in Our Lord’s Service.
Jamie, you have found the essence of postmodern liberalism.
T.S. Eliot once said of Liberalism:
“…That Liberalism may be a tendency towards something very different from itself, is a possibility in its nature. For it is something which tends to release energy rather than accumulate it, to relax, rather than to fortify. It is a movement not so much defined by its end, as by its starting point; away from, rather than towards, something definite”.
“…Liberalism may be characterized as a progressive discarding of elements in historical Christianity which appear superfluous, obsolete, confounded with practices and abuses which are legitimate objects of attack. But as its movement is controlled rather by its origin than by any goal, it loses force after a series of rejections, and with nothing to destroy is left with nothing to uphold and with nowhere to go.”
“…By destroying traditional social habits of the people, by dissolving their natural collective consciousness into individual constituents, by licensing the opinions of the most foolish, by substituting instruction for education, by encouraging cleverness rather than wisdom, the upstart rather than the qualified, by fostering a notion of “getting on” to which the alternative is a hopeless apathy, Liberalism can prepare the way for that which is its own negation: the artificial, mechanised or brutalised control which is a desperate remedy for its chaos.”
Hey, Jet Jag:
Yeah, been gone all day, so I’m catching up!
You know, this crossed my mind too, and now that the Anchoress has voiced it, I am getting more suspicious:
Yes. His “camp” has shown lack of civility. I think that Obama’s shady associations, as with Rezko, Ayers, Wright, are still reflected in his current ones.
They don’t. A CNN moron (woman, go figure) went all ape s$$t asking if Sarah could be a mother and VP at the same time. To his credit, Anderson Cooper noted that no one asks the same thing about men. Then Larry King got all excited and creepy about Palin’s daughter. So creepy you wonder about a 149 year old guy getting excited about a 17 year old’s sex life.
The flip side of all this nitwittery on the left is that the left will soon have to deal with a re-energized angry conservative base, that would not have been re-energized any other way…this is something Team Obama does not want.…it would be far simpler for Obama to deal with a moribund McCain, especially in light of Obama’s pick of Joe Biden (who) does absolutely nothing for Obama.
Obama in a nutshell has shot his wad and still can’t overcome McCain. Now is the opportunity McCain has been waiting for…if he doesn’t blow it by throwing Palin under the bus too…here McCain and Palin too must stand unflinchingly, and if they do they will win big time.
For those who say that Palin was a bad choice, I would like to hear who should have McCain picked that would get him the votes of conservatives-the one group that has been antagonistic toward McCain to the point of militancy (of which I admit to have been a part of until now)?
That really underscores why Larry King needs to be retired and rendered vocationally kaput
I wish the Palins the best; who doesn’t know family or friends that have dealt with this situation and now have teenagers, college students or adult children born in these difficult times who are now their pride and joy.
For what it is worth, this is not the first, or last time sex is part of a Presidential race.
Gorver Cleveland fathered a child out of wedlock. This becoming public prompted his opponents to create the chant/heckle “Ma, ma, where is Pa? Gone to the White House, ha, ha, ha.”
We all know of course that in spite of this, CLeveland was elected to the office.
Wonder what the Kod Kidz would have done back then?
Then call a waaaaahmbulance and get treatment for your debilitating agitation.
Before you launch with the name calling, you might want to elaborate on where you find hypocrisy in our comments.
That’s called “communication.” You might want to brush up on it.
One of two things: 1) continued gnawing at the leather restraints of their straitjackets or 2) gone back to the barn and made sweet equine love to Wilbur.
It seems to me that you get aids and pregnant doing more or less the same thing, having unprotected sex.
Keep it up, freaks.
It’s going to cost you the election.
I said this earlier over at LGF and I’ll repeat it here… having both a woman and a black man on the ticket at the same time, has unleashed a level of crazy in the Dem party that I’ve not seen in my lifetime.
I think that we can safely say that 2008 is the year that the diseased gut of the Democratic party officially ruptured. The whole d*mned party is bloated and infected, and the infection is now spilling out for all the world to see.
I think that we can also safely say that 2008 is going to be the year that female voters in this country decide that they’ve finally had enough, and abandon the Democratic party to either vote Republican or Independent.
It’s become crystal clear to many if not most women of voting age that the Dem party is the party of mysogeny.
The Democratic party is about to lose HUGE chunks of its’ demographic… women voters, black voters, moderates. And they don’t even seem to care. They’re so bent on spewing their poisonous vomit onto the American political scene that they’ve become detached from reality.
#474 love2rumba
Great post, and spot on.
lgm, you missed my previous point. Bristol had sex (we do not know if it was unprotected or if the protection failed) and she is pregnant. She is accepting her mistake and is dealing with it without seeking sympathy or asking the government for help. AIDS victims (with the minor exception of those that get it from blood donations, rape, unfaithful spouse, etc.) get their disease from voluntary high-risk sexual activity. It is not right to discriminate against AIDS victims, but they have no right asking me, through taxation on my hard-earned income, to support their humungous medical bills or to give them other special consideration. Take the voluntary risk, accept the fate.
Politics is a gutter business on both sides of the aisle.
Here’s where you went wrong: “It seems to me…” You get AIDS through anal intercourse and/or intravenous drug use (whether or not you’re wearing a condom when you shoot up). Understand now?
Dolt.
Larry King was creepy last night. The talking heads had themselves convinced Palin was about to booted off of the ticket.
Changing topics
Does this remind anyone else about McCain’s good parts.
Bridget smear = Bristol smear
Ticks off party leaders for fun = Ticks off party leaders for fun
And even the bad parts
Bipartisan element of Abscam = Troopergate
I think McCain might be telling a deeper truth than I recognized, she may well be his political kindred sprit
For what it’s worth Troopergate is the kind of problem an executive leader faces that does not exist in the senate. Pretend for a moment she didn’t do everything in her power to get the guy fired and he tasered another child or killed someone while drinking and driving in a patrol car. She would be vilified for keeping such a slug on her force when she knew what she knows (The evil of the guy isn’t even disputed in Kosland, but they would never defend a trooper or a taser).
Nailed it Irish Rose. Here’s a post from a Clinton supporter:
This thread about Governor Palin and the MSM reaction to both her candidacy and her daughter’s pregnancy, is a reminder that this country is extraordinarily condemning, puritanical and backward in it’s views. Our culture is extremely sexist, misogynistic and demands women and girls adhere to an impossible double standard for conduct. The reaction has shown that too many on the left and the right are guilty of this.
This election has exposed wholesale vicious attitudes towards Senator Clinton and Governor Palin and to their daughters. It confirms that it isn’t about a “particular woman”, its about ALL WOMEN! Our society seeks to control all females, their sexuality, their reproductivity and narrowly proscribe and define their roles.
Unlike any of the male candidates, our female candidates are scrutinized intensely for their fitness to hold office in terms of their attractiveness, youth, relationships to a powerful male, demeanor, attire, modesty, sexuality, degree of deference, child bearing status, marital status, motherhood, parenting skills. Anything else they do is secondary to that and subject to passing these essential “tests” first. No man is held to this standard.
And the qualifications they do have for the jobs are immediately compared disfavorably to their male counterparts, even in areas where they have clearly achieved more. Are we in fundamentalist Iran, a world of Burkhas? No, but you know what? We have certainly proven beyond a doubt that we have a long way to go.
The accusations that it is the Dems or the Republicans misses what is the obvious larger and more pressing problem. Intolerance is systemic across the spectrum, no matter what the political affiliation. It is clear from everything that has transpired during this election that sexism is an equal opportunity disease.
God Bless Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin. If ever there was a fierce urgency, it is now.
Liberals use every form of media to entice children into early sex, theough music videos, music, movies like “Juno”, & television shows.
Then, once they finally cave into the pressure to have sex that’s in large part created by the pop culture atmosphere that is created almost exclusively by liberals, they begin the process of selectively condemning anyone who they do not agree with, or who does not fully submit to their twisted social standards.
It’s a cycle of enticement/condemnation, entice/condemn..
Hmmm… Sounds like a popular figure mentioned in the bible..
Wen’t by the name of SATAN..
Obama said he’s “offended” by the discussion about Bristol Palin. He must be positively apoplectic by now.
Is the event of HS kids having a baby great news? No. But what’s done is done. Choosing to keep the baby is positive step 1. Raising a good kid is positive step 2.
It happened to my sister in her early 20′s. She married the guy. My nephew is a cool, decent kid, and a pretty good baseball player. My sister briefly considered ending the pregnancy, because she and the Dad were really fighting at that point.
Thankfully, she decided she was going to have the baby regardless and everything worked out in the end.
Trig and Bristol is a family matter. I wish them well. Palin makes McCain stronger. I like her as person and her political acumen. She the most real of the three candidates.
On September 2nd, 2008 at 8:35 am, lgm said:
But there’s a major difference: pregnancy ends in a lifetime of happiness and joy; the other ends one’s life. There is no equating the two, regardless of the pathology.
Clearly, the media and the Democrats want the news of Bristol’s pregnancy to harm Sarah Palin, and, by extension, harm the GOP. They want to divide the Republicans up on this matter and sow doubt within the GOP.
I am sure that the Palin family has shed real tears over this matter, and I am sure Bristol has regrets.
But, the Palins are going forward with their lives, and they are not going to abort the inconvenient baby. For that, I applaud them all.
I approve of Sarah Palin as McCain’s veep, and I will vote for them. I will also make a donation to the campaign.
Let us all stand by our ticket.
On September 2nd, 2008 at 11:35 am, MTConservative said:
Very well stated, and I concur.
My vote is still going to McCain/Palin.
Charles over at LGF is reporting that Markos over at KOS is sending some of his diaries down the memory hole.
Check out the date on this picture – Sarah doesn’t look 8 months pregnant:
http://www.daylife.com/photo/0fcQ5EM7gafd9
Fornication is still a sin.
I think Gov. Palin is forging a new trail for her daughters and everyone else’s daughters in the U.S.A.
I’m thrilled to see a a strong, intelligent, steadfast woman in the media. She won’t be discouraged by silly little remarks. Keep on keepin on, Gov. Palin!
Michelle,
Maybe you can look into whether any of the “O” organization is behind the hype over Gov. Palin’s Daughter’s pregnancy. Barry O denies any of his folks are involved, and claims he’ll fire anyone who was….
Link Here:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/09/01/obama.palin/index.html
“Our people were not involved in any way in this, and they will not be. And if I ever thought that there was somebody in my campaign that was involved in something like that, they’d be fired.”
I wonder if they issued a memo/email like the one that generated so much anti-buzz over the Annenburg Challenge documents and the radio appearance of Stanley Kurtz.
Double sin if it produces a little scooter.