A 17-year-old sinks the GOP?

Question

What is WITH these people -- first Joe Biden's history of false statements and plagiarism. Now it turns out that Palin's daughter is well on her way to delivering a love-child: exactly against just about any Republican claims of standing for "Family Values".

Intelligence right up there with the certitiude of Sadam's WMD's that have got us 3000+ killed and our budget spent for a useless military occupation. (If that was ever the real reason for the invasion, which I doubt.)

This would be the equivalent of some auto dealership manager completely wrong abouit his own inventory he wants to sell. You can't run a car-lot that way -- and now one of the guys who chose these bads of dirty laundry is going to run the country? Time to vote with my feet like I did when Nixon was re-elected. I would, too, except i bought those "low-interest" credit card deals from the banks after 9/11 killed in South Florida where I lived at the time and now have debt I can't pay off!!!

Answer 1

It's not going to be a 17 year old that's going to sink the GOP. And that's not the only "dirt" they have on her.

She is under investigation for abuse of her powers as governor, plus she is WAY right of center (much more than Lieberman or Ridge) to really effectively steal any of the "Hillary-crats." Now it's come out in the Washington post that no real vetting was done on her until the day before she was announced as his VP pick. Plus the fact that she is relatively inexperienced (despite the right's best efforts to paint her as the opposite), after a HUGE campaign on Obama's "inexperience" (which includes 12 years of state and federal level experience), more than "W", Ronald Reagan, and Jimmy Carter on their entry into the white house. Their best shot with her is like what Chuck Schumer said: she's a "hail mary pass" and the only way the McCain campaign was going to get money from the super-conservative right. If they had picked someone with actual foreign policy experience such as Ridge, Lieberman, or even Hutchison. Then the democrats could be worried because he'd actually have someone ready to lead with him plus someone who's able to draw from the center. She's purely a political pick.

Answer 2

Sadam had WMDs that killed 3000+ people?

Answer 3

What are you rambling about?  

Family values doesn't mean perfect robotic families.  

Answer 4

Palin is clean as a whistle.  So what, who cares if her daughter is pregnant?  

Answer 5

i could be like you libs and report this as a rant rather then a question but i will choose to address the fact that a pregnant 17 year old daughter of candidate shouldnt matter. What should be noticed is the fact that this girl will stand up for her mistake rather then blaming someone else! She will raise her child not kill it.

BTW i was married at 19 and my wife already had a kid. 23 years later we went from a very poor struggling family to what Obama calls rich. We got no handouts, no govt. aid, and didnt need to tax those more fortunate then us. We just worked hard! It works if you arent to lazy or envious of others to try it.

Answer 6

Family Values huh?  Well next time anyone thinks they walk on water look down and you will find out its not so.  We all walk on the sand or the cement. Not good to live in glass houses and the saying goes. Someone might just throw the stone back in.  

Answer 7

It's the only "dirt" they can find on Palin, if you wanna call it that. She's flawless! Dems have plenty to worry about come November.

Answer 8

Quite the opposite is true.

The radical extreme left ha not been able to find any dirt on Sarah Palin so they are attacking her 17 year old daughter who is not even a candidate.

What this actually shows is the desperation and the weakness of the radical extreme left.

Yes, Sarah Palin's 17 year old high school daughter made a mistake and got pregnant.

However Srah Palin's daughter has the charachter and moral courage to give her bably life and not permite her baby to be sucked down an abotionist's sink.

That shows character and morality. Sarah Palin's daughter made one mistake but she refused to compound that mistake and let her baby be sucked down an abortionists' sink.

Sarah Palin did something right when she raised her daughter.

Sarah Palin's daughter hs given her baby the gift of life.

That is far more than the radical extreme left would do.

Answer 9

There is no scandal in 17 year old Bristol Palin being pregnant. The only scandal would have been if Sarah had taken her for an abortion. Which she didn't!

Answer 10

What is the question again?

Answer 11

I think "family values" is about supporting your child despite their mistakes.  I see no problem politically here.  I'm sure a small minority of voters might "take offense" with this situation, but just as her child is not her, she is not her child.  As a parent, you try to instruct your children and try to enable them to make the best decisions in life, but the child is it's own person, and no parenting technique will ensure that they won't make mistakes.  As a parent it's how you deal with those mistakes that is important.

Answer 12

Because surely no other Republican families out there have ever had a teenage daughter get pregnant.  Bush's kids are typical college dunks and that didn't stop him getting re-elected.  I'm a freakin' Democrat who wouldn't vote McCain/Palin if you paid me, and I still think the whole issue is redundant.