Sarah Palin is a strong advocate for abstinence-only education in high schools. In a clearly unrelated matter, her high-school aged daughter is five months pregnant and unmarried.
At least they can cover their damn religious conservative butts by "supporting her decision to keep the baby." Yeah, I'm sure their initial reaction was complete support.
Oh but we can't say that, it's insensitive to talk about politicians private lives. Unless they're democrats then its ok to make insinuations about them being closet gay, elitist, muslim, communists.
I love how there is this response on the right as if they are absolutely shocked, SHOCKED, that the public is curious about the private life of a female candidate. Especially when they're selling her with this wholesome average American mother shtick.
Personally I'm more worried about the whole scandal wherein she fired somebody for not firing her ex-brother in-law, after having her aides belligerently harass him for not doing so. A petty politician who cares more about loyalty than competence, and who's only response to the whole affair was to lie to the public when backed into a corner. Yeah we really haven't had enough of that in the last eight years...
YEAH! I was PISSED when I heard someone make the accusation that we wouldn't be discussing this if it were a MALE candidate's pregnant teenage daughter. Seriously? SERIOUSLY?!? What bullshit!
I feel like any reasonable attack made on Sarah Palin is going to be refuted with "Well, you wouldn't say that if she were a man." Which I guess is better than the old "I'm rubber, you're glue" rebuttal, but not by much.
The best part is that the exact same republicans making that defense were no less than six months ago making the most ridiculous vitriol attacks against Hillary focusing entirely on the fact that she is a women.
All those assholes who were going "OH look, shes crying after winning New Hampshire, this must be a sign of feminine weakness!" are now doing this special pleading on behalf of their female candidate. It would be funny if so many of the people doing this weren't 'journalists'. Then it would just be politicians doing what they do, but to hear so much of this BS coming out of the press themselves is whats really annoying.
Its things like this that make me glad Orwell came up with the word doublethink. Cause if he didn't I'd have no way to explain this weird behavior.
Well, I mean, I don't think we should be talking about the pregnancy except as yet another example that teenagers have sex -even the "good" ones- and need to be treated like people who may be having sex.
For all we know the daughter used birth control and it failed, but we'll never know. Also we'll never know if Bristol actually wanted to have the baby, raise it *and* marry the father. I feel like most teens who are getting married because of an unexpected pregnancy do so largely out of shame. I wish her the best in any case.
Now what I really want is for the media to quit the panty sniffing and pay attention to matters that are important - like corruption investigations, maybe?
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At least they can cover their damn religious conservative butts by "supporting her decision to keep the baby." Yeah, I'm sure their initial reaction was complete support.
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I love how there is this response on the right as if they are absolutely shocked, SHOCKED, that the public is curious about the private life of a female candidate. Especially when they're selling her with this wholesome average American mother shtick.
Personally I'm more worried about the whole scandal wherein she fired somebody for not firing her ex-brother in-law, after having her aides belligerently harass him for not doing so. A petty politician who cares more about loyalty than competence, and who's only response to the whole affair was to lie to the public when backed into a corner. Yeah we really haven't had enough of that in the last eight years...
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I feel like any reasonable attack made on Sarah Palin is going to be refuted with "Well, you wouldn't say that if she were a man." Which I guess is better than the old "I'm rubber, you're glue" rebuttal, but not by much.
AGGHHH!
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All those assholes who were going "OH look, shes crying after winning New Hampshire, this must be a sign of feminine weakness!" are now doing this special pleading on behalf of their female candidate. It would be funny if so many of the people doing this weren't 'journalists'. Then it would just be politicians doing what they do, but to hear so much of this BS coming out of the press themselves is whats really annoying.
Its things like this that make me glad Orwell came up with the word doublethink. Cause if he didn't I'd have no way to explain this weird behavior.
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Well, I mean, I don't think we should be talking about the pregnancy except as yet another example that teenagers have sex -even the "good" ones- and need to be treated like people who may be having sex.
For all we know the daughter used birth control and it failed, but we'll never know. Also we'll never know if Bristol actually wanted to have the baby, raise it *and* marry the father. I feel like most teens who are getting married because of an unexpected pregnancy do so largely out of shame. I wish her the best in any case.
Now what I really want is for the media to quit the panty sniffing and pay attention to matters that are important - like corruption investigations, maybe?
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