I wonder if the Daily Kos crowd will remember that Barack Obama's mother was unwed and not much older than Bristol Palin when she was pregnant with him.
Yes, but Barack Obama's grandmother wasn't running for vice-president of a party whose conservative members currently frown on teen sexual intercourse.
I totally agree that the fact that she's socially conservative and her daughter's circumstances makes this ironic and somewhat newsworthy, but I just find the kind of gleeful twittering about candidate's family matters in general distasteful. And I'm sure Republicans would be reacting in a similar political way if a Democrat candidate's child made scandalous news contrary to liberal orthodoxy. I guess what I was trying to point out is that these kind of things aren't necessarily anything new, and effect families on both sides of the aisle.
Not me! Nothing makes me happier than watching conservatives take a bite of the shit-sandwich they made for themselves.
I'm still a little baffled by all of this. It's been less than a week and Palin is already being torn to shreds - what the hell was McCain's campaign thinking? Once the VP debate rolls around, Palin is going to be calling up Harriet Myers to get the number for her therapist.
It reminds me of when Cheney's daughter was discovered to be a lesbian, years after rumors had circulated about it in the gay community. It didn't seem to have much impact on him, and this probably won't either. Hypocritical and anti-gay, yes, but consequential? It didn't seem like it, and sure didn't cause any soul-searching in the Republican ranks as far as I could see. Lynn Cheney seemed to dig in her heels and tried to play victim over how "tastelessly and hurtfully" the Democrats were trying to use it. Fair game, I thought, for a homophobic VP and party platform. In fact, Kerry got some s-hit for bringing it up during a debate.
The disclosure about the Palin girl does raise some questions about the kind of vetting that the McCain campaign did, but then I haven't read the articles about this yet. So maybe I should shut up and read.
