McCain/Palin?

[Miroslav]

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oh...and her 17 year-old daughter is preggers!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080901/pl_nm/usa_politics_palin_dc

Can you imagine if this had happened on the Democratic candidate side? The GOP would have gleefully nailed Biden's ass to the wall for all the "values" stuff...

I think McCain's retardo choice of VP did it for me...Obama, here comes my vote.

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As more and more stuff comes out about Palin, I just can't for the life of me believe that McCain picked her with his eyes wide open. There was a report on CNN this morning about how as of last Sunday, McCain really wanted to pick Lieberman, but his advisors were directing him to pick someone else, and I gather it got pretty contentious. I don't like Joe Lieberman's position on Iraq, but he would have been unassailable as a VP pick -- FFS, the guy was on the Dem's VP ticket 8 years ago.

Instead, he picks a person he's met once in a social setting and had never discussed the VP slot with her before offering it to her. I've applied for jobs far less important than Vice President that have at least asked me to come back for a second interview before offering me the job. Moreover, she's got more skeletons in her closet than a biology lab. On the one hand, it's tough to get around the conclusion that she was selected by his staff for political purposes, most likely in a snap decision. You knew she had a pregnant underage daughter and was under investigation for abuse of power, and picked her anyway? Riiiiiiight. On the other hand, if it were just a political move, you'd think they'd done a better job of making sure there weren't any political downsides to the pick. No matter how you look at it, it's a bizarre pick.

McCain is a "maverick," but he allows his staff to bully him into picking someone he doesn't want to pick, and who probably shouldn't have been picked?

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And for the record, I don't personally begrudge Bristol for getting pregnant at all -- that shit happens, and the fact that she's keeping the baby might even ultimately end up helping her with the evangelicals (although I can't believe McCain knew that and decided to take that risk without doing something to preempt the story coming out second-hand). I don't even think that she or her mother are hypocrites, because I know I didn't always follow my parents wishes, particularly on things that that.

It does, however, underscore how silly and unrealistic the "abstinence only" policy touted by Sarah Palin is in this day and age. That shit just doesn't work. FFS, what else are you going to do in Alaska? One has to wonder if they'd be in this bind if a condom were an acceptable option.

[Huggie Smiles]

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I don't even think that she or her mother are hypocrites, .

why isnt Sarah Palin a hypocrite? if she forwards a abstinence only policy - yet clearly it doesn't work for anyone (not just her family) - but she still keeps that policy - isnt that being a hypocrite?

(and yes I agree the 17 year old should be kept out of it)

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why isnt Sarah Palin a hypocrite? if she forwards a abstinence only policy - yet clearly it doesn't work for anyone (not just her family) - but she still keeps that policy - isnt that being a hypocrite?

I think of hypocrisy as saying one thing and doing another. For all I know, she's been entirely consistent about her belief that abstinence only is the best policy, and has taken all reasonable steps to enforce that policy in her home. If her daughter decides to circumvent that policy and have sex anyway, we all know she's going to do it. As I mentioned in my earlier post, I certainly did things my parents didn't want me to do notwithstanding their best efforts. I'm sure we all did.

We all know that "abstinence only" is an absurd and losing policy, and I think any rational person would agree. Sarah Palin's failure to come to grips with that probably leaves her in denial of reality and looking a bit foolish, but as long as she seriously believes it, I don't really see it as an example of hypocrisy. If she was pushing abstinence only while actively encouraging her daughter to get her freak on, that might be a different situation, but that's not what's happening, as far as I know...