Biases are better than hypocrisy!

Pu ton your condoms, take your pills!

It's no surprise that politicians who advocate abstinence only education programs find themselves under scrutiny when their lives become examples of why their policies don't work.

Everyone's talking about how personal a matter this is for Palin and her family, and I couldn't agree more. All situations like these are deeply personal. No one should judge Palin or her daughter for the pregnancy. However, every conservative that promotes no exception abortion bans and abstinence only education and talks about how deeply personal this is and how everyone should stay out of Palin’s family life is a hypocrite. I don’t get how it’s okay to legislate how they feel about these issues while at the same time saying the matters are so personal. It’s okay for government, in the form of restrictive laws, to get into the lives of Americans, but it’s not okay for the media to get into Palin’s?

It's not okay to judge Palin or her daughter. However, I think relating what's going on in Palin's own family to her stances on certain issues is fair game.

The discussion of Abstinence vs. Sex Ed being taught in schools can be discussed - but not by constantly referring to Palins daughter. My heart goes out to this young woman. Where is the political wisdom by thinking that this would not be discussed if it were presented as a 'rumor'?

I feel sorry for the girl and, clearly, the smarter tactic would have been to take the fact public from the start and control the spin. The way they did this just makes the politicians look desperate and embarrassed the girl.

However, what I keep coming back to is the thought that Rove and his minions would have NEVER let a Dem's kid get a free ride. They love to say "it's a private family matter" when the scandal involves one of their party's kids (Cheney's gay, pregnant daughter OR Anheiser Bush (aka "the Bush twins") getting tanked at college parties and on overseas trips). But they crank up the slime machine full force when it's a Dem's family. And, let's not forget that the party that has won elections on "Family Values" has set itself (and its children) up for the gleeful unearthing of hypocrisy that they reap (e.g. Larry "I am not gay I have a wide stance" Craig, Ted "I just got a massage but I didn't take the chrystal meth" Haggard and Mark "I like my pages young and male" Foley).

Finally, the thing that interests me is that Palin's statement emphasized that the family is supporting the daughter. Funny that her positions on unintended pregnancy (whether by rape, incest or voluntary intimacy) do not take into consideration that all females (regardless of age) do not get the benefit of that support. And her party's adamant position against providing that support through public resources (free/low-cost pre-natal care, adoption support and foster care funding) or legal protections (pregnant employee protections and, yes, abortions for pregnancies due to rape or incest) is cold-hearted, to put it kindly.

So, I agree. Leave the girl alone (her mother's political ambition has damaged her enough) but don't stop talking about this issue and how different circumstances (other than the party candidate's child being the unintended parent-to-be) would get a completely different response from the party of "Family (Political) Values".

I want to hear her views on foreign policy

What about TrooperGate? Flip flop in bridge? Global warming?

People are behaving in a manner they would not endorse in their own 12 year old children!

Pregnant by an emigrating tramp, forcibly? I hope not!

Do not---I repeat, do not, cause an abortion by making a speech, riding an airplane twice, and traveling thousands of miles after water breakage!

We need another VP candidate---and not Mitt, der Schmitt!
How bout Hucklebeerry-----after full vetting, of course. Most of those preacher guys have checkered pasts!

A potential White House Shotgun Wedding?

If Cheney's holding the gun, the groom is absolutely safe. The bride and the attending friends and family, however, should practice ducking.

It depends upon whether there is a sudden "flutter" in the room!

Why aren't you letting the Eskimo Indian daughter's Father use his boat hook as an enforcer?

I'll take a VP candidate with a pregnant 17 year old daughter over a Presidential candidate that has a mentor that is a preacher from a racist, hate-filled, Marxist church any day.

Also, I'll take a VP candidate with a hubby with a 22 year old dui over a Presidential candidate that whose wife thinks that America is "just downright mean".

You would take ANY republican candidate when offered!
Even Hagee, or Robison, or Bakker, or Ken from Texas, or the Lebanese hair doo, or either Church preacher, Blue hair or the homo, or just anybody who disavowed democrats!

The holy republican oracle is Limbaugh!
FOX sells women's legs, sexual principles, and anything neo-con!

Until her husband is found to be using female escorts nothing is really going to matter.

daughter's and not the mother's? Has there been more proof presented other than that Palin didn't look pregnant? That she went all the way home instead of going to nearby hospitals? I have not seen or read of any definite proof. It would be terrible to lay this all on a 17 year old with not truth to back it up. I am speaking as a mother who would hate to see her child get this kind of adverse publicity.

to the Down Syndrome baby... this is the campaign release from about an hour ago

Sarah Palin's 17-year-old , unmarried daughter is five months pregnant, the campaign has announced. Hoping to quell internet rumors about about her youngest son, Palin released the news about her daughter Bristol earlier today.

A shrill fundamentalist family with a preggo 17 year old....that's almost a cliché.

How very sad. Bristol Palin is now the nationwide poster child for the absolute failure of "Abstinence Only" sex education in our country's schools.

Did we ever figure out if this will be her first or second child?

is in the ear of the beholder, and only dems are allowed 'mistakes'.

"Look closely children, this banana represents a penis, only bigger; we don't want to scare you. Girls, you take the condom out of the package and roll it over the banana, I mean penis, like...like this and then you lay down and let him in, as shown in this diagram. For our more advanced 13 year olds, please refer to your copy of the The Joy of Sex for optional positions. Now you are protected from disease and pregnancy. Have fun!!"

I'm sure that it is only due to such graphic and open discussion that Chelsie C. never got pregnant...or maybe its just because she was such an ugly kid, and her daddy had first dibs. Oops, can't say that can I? She's part of a protected minority, intelligent democrats.

Keep using condoms lefties, there are too many of you out there already and I might need some rationed health care soon!

Poor Bristol does not get a say on having her baby or going Roe vs. Wade. Political convenience has already decided she MUST have this baby, no matter if she is mature enough to deal with the responsibility.

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Making you think twice......

There is no problem here with money to support the baby and her family.
The son-in-law can help fish and the daughter can help Vice-President!

Not all pregnant unmarried girls have those choices!

Just how do you decide what name you will use for which blog? Don't you get confused sometime? And how are dollar and sage doing?

I am Nitpickers!
You will have to speak to Bonkers, dollar, and sage about them!
Do you have a "thing" for names, or something?

You can change your name but you can't seem to change your style. A rose by any other name would --not be Bonkers, Nitpickers, Sage, Dollar et al.

How true. Sarah Palin will be Sarah Palin. No matter what you do she will keep on surprising you. Thanks for nice post which only made me smile more .

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Humor the old guy.

I don't know what you mean! Are you talking about me or the others?
I resent "the old guy."
I always pictured you as 85-90, senile, and afraid!Are you?
I'll also try to write a poem for you.