<p>mods…merge if you wish but this isn’t exactly about Sarah Palin,its the Republican strategists…
so much lip service for respecting the family/pregnant daughter’s privacy…they are trotting out her and supposed fiance for all the camera’s and pundits to see.
Someone,please explain the rationale of this to me.
If they are going to put them on display, then they are fair game for the media and no bellyaching by the GOP that they are being “used”.
I’m feeling really badly for this young lady right now.I wish they would allow her to go back to Wasilla quietly.</p>
<p>By going to the airport, McPOW has confirmed that it IS a fitting and proper campaign issue.</p>
<p>Interesting tactic, the moral majority must be squirming in their seats. I cannot see how her nomination can possibly help George Bush III -oops I mean McCain.</p>
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<p>I feel sick for the girl. I can’t imagine being 17 and in her situation. From my point of view, being 17 and pregnant and about to marry a very immature 18-year-old (see quotes from his Facebook page, printed all over the place) is bad enough; having the situation discussed all over the world must be beyond awful.</p>
<p>Are the Republicans really going to turn this into a joyous situation?</p>
<p>NYMOMof2, conservatives have some webpages set up where they extol the joys of being a teenaged mom. Obstensibly, this is to deter young pregnant women from abortion, but one wonders if the real reason is to encourage the pregnancies themselves. A teenaged mother is much less likely to enter college or a high paying occupation than her childless peers.</p>
<p>dallice, I had no idea. I thought that conservatives were against sex before marriage. How depressing if some encourage this as a way to limit options!</p>
<p>It is depressing to look at this girl’s face (is it only me, or does she look awfully young for a 17-year-old?) and wonder what is really going through her mind.</p>
<p>^.
" I’m going to have a baby. And that I shall give it every opportunity; No matter what other people think or say."</p>
<p>BTW. How can you hide a 7 month pregnancy (Nov 2008)?</p>
<p>My understanding is that they weren’t going to hide it till November. In fact, I read that Palin wanted the daughter to get married asap, possibly within a few days of the announcement of her candidacy, and then announce the pregnancy. Reportedly, the D refused. I believe this story came from the National Enquirer so I’ll let you decide for yourself how credible it is, given NE’s outing of Edwards and at the same being, you know, National Enquirer ;)</p>
<p>I think that it is bad enough to be 17 and pregnant and missing the beginning of school. But on top of it, you have to carry your younger brother around on the stage like his mother should be doing.</p>
<p>Funny, Tenth… I had that same thought! Then I realized that the baby and its sizeable blanket were simply used to hide the girl’s baby bump.</p>
<p>This woman absolutely disgusts me. It shows me what kind of person she really is-one who is willing to sacrifice even the well-being of her family for her own personal ambition. Plus, no 17 year old should be getting married. Period. Baby or not. Ugh!</p>
<p>EDIT: And you know what is even worse. I have a pretty good feeling that she doesn’t want the baby (after all, most 17-year-olds don’t), but with her mother being so anti-abortion and extremely far right, she probably had no options. This accident (I’m assuming), is going to cause tremendous hardships in this young lady’s life and it all could’ve been prevented by simply taking birth control, the morning after-pill, or (and I know it sounds horrible), an early pregnancy abortion. But she never could have because of her mother’s status. That to me is the worst part. Knowing that this girl has no options and a lifetime of struggle ahead of her just because her mother has political ambitions.</p>
<p>Trotting that poor girl out (along with her BF, who looks like a deer in the headlights), crossed every line of decency for me. It’s one thing to say “this is what I believe”; it’s another to blatantly make political hay of it.</p>
<p>conservative pundits here(IDad,Simba,Tega,et al)
please,please explain the GOP strategy on this to me.</p>
<p>Imposing motives on other people is the bandwagon of the day I see.</p>
<p>WindSlicer, I’d love to hear what positive, loving, honest motives would inspire a parent to parade her pregnant teenager on live global TV with a blanket over her belly, then announce to the world that she’s pregnant three days later.</p>
<p>If she’s proud of her daughter, why the subterfuge? And if she thinks her daughter needs privacy now, why pull her into the spotlight? I mean, Track didn’t come to the announcement because he’s a busy adult with his own schedule; why did Bristol have to come if she needs privacy?</p>
<p>“please,please explain the GOP strategy on this to me.”</p>
<p>Their “lack” of strategy was to underestimate the media sharks. This is unprecedented. I stand firm on the belief that if Obama had picked a female VP with the same “family situation” this would NOT be happening.</p>
<p>Had it been on the Democrat side, the right wing would have demanded that Obama renounce the VP’s support, and berated Americans nightly about the lack of family values on the other side of the aisle, and eventually Obama would have given in to their rhetoric and dumped her.</p>
<p>There also would have been speeches from James Dobson about how working women are so unreliable that “any little thing can push them over the edge” and how teen pregnancies are the result of “bad parenting”.</p>
<p>Read what the conservative right had to say about Jamie Lynn Spears’ pregnancy. Limbaugh particularly had harsh things to say not only about Jamie but her parents. What a contrast to what they are saying about “one of their own”.</p>