Do you agree that Palin's daughter's pregnancy is a private family matter?

Question

When family matters relate directly to policy matters, they are fair for discussion. The situation raises legitimate questions about Gov. Palin's positions on sexuality education, teenage pregnancy and reproductive choice. This situation can be explores without exploiting her daughter. After all, Gov. Palin had no hesitancy sharing the details of her son Track's entering the army, or her personal decisions about her infant, as examples of her commitments to family. How could she expect that her daughter's decisions wouldn't be put into play?

Answer 1

Normally it would have been.  But remember how the Republicans tore apart Jamie Lynn Spears (Britney's younger sister)?  They wanted to boycott the show and force her off.  I don't like it, but they can't be an exception to the rule.  I feel sorry for the daughter though.  As an ex-reporter her mother should've known better than to enter the national spotlight with so many scandals hanging over her head.  Look at Guiliani.  He wasn't given a free pass with his family affairs (the only Republican who this happened to).  Neither was Bill Clinton, Chelsea Clinton (she was asked about her father and it was her mother running--not one Republican stepped forward to slam this type of inconsiderate questioning), Hillary Clinton, John Edwards, Eliot Spitzer, Jim McGreevy and others.  You can't give someone a chance when you feel like it.  There has to be an equal playing field.  I know it's tough, but Palin can't get away.  She was home-schooling her daughter so she can't excuse it with peer pressure.  She is a Republican conservative so she can't excuse it by blaming the Democrats.  As a matter of fact, let's list the Republicans who've criticized something and it came back to haunt them.  I've already done the Democrats.

1. Alan Keyes (L*****n daughter tossed out of the house as he protested against lesbians and others.  I don't disagree with him, but if he doesn't believe it's natural then why has his daughter gone that way having grown up in his house?)

2. d**k Cheney (His daughter's a L*****n and he won't let her in the conversation.)

3. Mark Foley (Was mixed up with the pages--wrote letters to the boy pages)

4. Larry Craig (Caught in men's bathroom soliciting another guy for...you know.)

5. John McCain (Was the second man to cheat on his first wife.  Had multiple affairs after she stood by him while he was a prisoner of war in Vietnam.  Then he abandoned her and started dating Cindy--17 yrs. younger than him--while he was still married to his first wife).  

6. Sarah Palin (Troopergate:  Abuse of power--she is against corruption) (Pregnant daughter at 17--she is against unwed mothers).  

Republicans are no more moral than Democrats.  They are "pro-life" yet they provoked a war and sent our children out there to die when the UN was handling it.  The Democrats also have their share of scandals.  But you know what the difference is?  The Democrats will criticize the bad decision maker while the Republicans tend to ignore it, put a good spin on it or dismiss it as irrelevant.  The last choice is what they want for Palin.  However the Republicans tore apart John Edwards a few days ago and the Democrats did nothing to stop them.  Now, it is the Republican Party's turn to be scrutinized and they want it to be hushed?  No way.  They dished out some hard medicine, now it is time for them to drink their own concoction.

Answer 2

No b/c her mother created this situation for her daughter.  

Answer 3

Yes it definitely is a private family matter. People couldn't find any bad in Sarah Palin, so they started picking on her teenage daughter. That is just low. I mean, come on, the daughter is not even 18 yet, and she isn't the one running for VP. Oh, and Sarah Palin is NOT a hypocrite. Had the daughter just listened to her mother and practiced abstinence, she wouldn't be pregnant right now.

JOHN MCCAIN/SARAH PALIN 2008

Answer 4

I agree with you.  And McCain has voted 20+ times AGAINST funding for programs that try to prevent teen pregnancies.  This is where the policy issues coincide with family life, and we need more answers.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jane-smile...

Answer 5

At least she did stick to what she believes in. Unlike the Obama men.  

Answer 6

Yes it is..if you think otherwise then lets start asking questions about Obamas kids....are they on medication?..has Michelle ever gotten an abortion because they didn't want to be punished with another child? Does Obama take Viagra?

The point is making family issues a reason to vote for someone is idiotic and childish.

Answer 7

It was until mom became the number 2 morality regulator.  I remember 4,8,12,16,20,24, years ago the Republicans were attacking unwed mothers.  My the times are a changing.lol.  Good luck Bristol.

Answer 8

yes and this is pretty hypoctritical of the dems to make a big deal of this.  it would be a badge of honor for their daughters to get knocked up and even better to have an abortion.  if barack's daughters were of age, they would probably have had an abortion and no one would have even heard about it.  i'm not sure what the big deal is.

Answer 9

Yes it is a family matter.  Until your mother decides to run as a VP of the US.  Ideally, children should not come into play but they do.

Answer 10

Obama does.

Answer 11

Well are we electing Palin or her daughter?

Answer 12

Any major upheaval within the immediate family of a President or VP candidate is the concern of the American public.

It has to do with being able to perform the civic job at the highest level of competency while being distracted by the personal.  

Answer 13

YES

Answer 14

No.

Answer 15

No amount of public modesty will keep this out of the press now. It's too juicy.

Answer 16

I don't think there is any privacy to running for public office. Everything is brought to the forefront. Which is why I have zero respect for Governor Palin for accepting the offer to run as VP at this critical a time in her daughter's life. 17 is still a child. Gov. Palin knew the media and press would get this information and she knew her daughter would be under public scrutiny. That's more than the daughter needs. She needs privacy. She needs as little stress as possible. I personally feel like she should have graciously said no to the offer to join McCain on the Republican ticket. But since she didn't, I feel like we should put as little emphasis on it as possible. Its really just not any of our business.  

Answer 17

yes, it is. However you can't have the morals issue both way:  Gee, she didn't get an abortion, what a good girl  versus Gee, she had s*x out of wedlock,  oops that happens rather than the usual- what a bad girl, welfare mom, our country is going to the dogs etc..  Aren't we the party of family morality!!! It is just the hypocrisy of it all that gets to me.

Answer 18

Yes, absolutely..but she chose to run for vp    

Answer 19

I think it should be used as a example of her judgement with a handicapped infant and a pregnant teen daughter should anyone man or woman look to a job that will take them away form her family more when they are needed. There is some family values for you

Answer 20

Well when she says she is all about family values and misses the birth control talk people are gonna wonder.

Answer 21

Palin needs to do what's right for her family & take her daughter out of that situation not parade her w/the guy who doesn't want kids.  

Answer 22

I think it is very hypocritical if the GOP is standing up for her daughter when in the past all they do is berate people for bad moral values when it comes to unwed mothers and not raising your kids right.  

Answer 23

This is a woman who is opposed to s*x ed. in schools and claims that she represents "family values" That brings her home life into the situation. You can't have it both ways. She is a hypocrite.  

Answer 24

I think it needs to be told and let the voters decide how we all feel about it by our vote im going to weigh mine a litle more now

Answer 25

Yes, it's a private matter. People need to mind their own business.  

Answer 26

Yes, Very private. It's none of our business.

Just as Obama's kids are.