I fully agree that the children of a candidate for public office should be off limits. They didn’t choose the somewhat bizarre path that their parent chose, so hands off. However, the Republican’s own spin has made me pull the hand brake.
The fact that the seventeen year old daughter of the Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin is pregnant and unmarried would be irrelevant except for one thing: The Republican media releases repeatedly said she CHOSE to keep the baby—she chose.
Both Palin and McCain are adamantly anti-choice. In fact, Palin thinks that all abortions should be outlawed, no exceptions, no way, no how, and McCain has been saying how his would be a “pro-life” administration.
All of which means that Sarah Palin’s daughter exercised the very choice they would by law or Constitutional Amendment forbid all other woman from making. Their spin has a technical word: Hypocrisy.
Don’t give me this self-righteous crap about how “liberals” have been “slandering” the poor innocent, beleaguered Palins. Bullshit. Sarah Palin opposed all sex education in Alaska. She backed the discredited “abstinence only” education, and her own teenage daughter becomes pregnant and exercises the very choice that both McCain and Palin would deny to all other woman. They’re not just elitist, they’re dangerous.
Neither McCain nor Palin can be trusted with ANY office.
Update (already): The AP reports that McCain "has opposed proposals to spend federal money on teen-pregnancy prevention programs and voted to require poor teen mothers to stay in school or lose their benefits." So, in the McCain-Palin universe, teen mothers are on their own, and must bear the baby no matter what, dammit.
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