People Are Just Stupid. Really.

[jonfmorse]

So, here we are, day two of Babygate. I've been soaking in commentary from various places, and it's divided between "who cares?" and "Family values are a conservative platform, so this is just a travesty."

Comments

[non_fiction]

Frankly, I think the name 'Bristol' is the bigger scandal.

[moonrose]

Oooh, maybe she's named after the Bristol brush salesman that knocked up her mom! That would make great "journalism", too!

[jonfmorse]

+infinity

[cappy]

+1

Bristol? BRISTOL? And TRACK?! We can let her slide for Piper & Willow, but BRISTOL? and TRACK?! & the worst!! naming the last one TRIG?!

WhiskeyTANGOfuckingFOXTROT?!

Is that short for Trigonometry or Trigger?

[jost]

I do enjoy watching the more-enlightened-than-you people tear into Palin for being pretty / a beauty contestant or citing how much time a special needs child will take from her potential VP duties. If either argument were made against candidates on their traditional side they'd scream to the rafters of sexism. Of how none of it was relevant to the position and the charges were just because of her genitalia being internal. It's just proof that the modern political machine would throw their own mothers into the gears if it meant they got their way. Hypocrites on both sides is the truth of the matter no matter how they try to spin it.

[tal125]

Good points D. To me all of this mess sums up poor decision making on McCain's part. Having known that Palin was under fire for the Troopergate, that she had a pregnant 17yr old he had to have been cognizant that this would deflect away from what his campaign does promise.

[catwoman980]

Naw. The problem is that her mom doesn't support sex-education, contraception, or abortion. She wants to position herself to have more power over other 17 year old girls, and reduce their access to the tools and education that will prevent these kinds of situations, because she's an idiot, and thinks sex-education and contraception don't work and are morally evil.

She has a particular model of the world that she thinks works, and she wants to impose it on the rest of us.

And not only does it not work, but it doesn't even work in her own home and family. And yet her position hasn't changed. She still thinks that the best way to keep kids from getting pregnant is not to tell them how they can avoid it, but rather to put her fingers in her ears and sing "lalala

[jost]

but rather to put her fingers in her ears and sing "lalala."

As a Catholic I wonder if I can use this method in addition to my pull-and-pray method. Do you think it's Pope-approved? Perhaps if it were "lalala, Hallelujah"?

[jonfmorse]

The same can be said of liberal candidates who are in the business of trying to govern our personal lives. The only difference is the aspects of our lives they want to control.

The problem is American politics.

[catwoman980]

If someone is attempting to prevent me from doing something when they themselves are doing it, I have a problem with their politics, regardless of what side of the aisle they're on.

[miintikwa]

Yes. This.

[jonfmorse]

2. Until the invention of 100% effective birth control, no there isn't.

4. Bristol Palin isn't running for office, therefore her uterus ain't nobody's bidness.

[pooka]

4. +infinity