If you were Sarah Palin... would you put your daughter though this?

[bunnies]

Would you make her the new poster child for RW hypocrisy and teen pregnancy?

For the record... I say "Hell no".

[Left Is Write]

1. Absolutely not.

[JBoy]

2. Sarah Palin likely believes it's all just god's will. It ain't her fault.

[bunnies]

7. Despite the fact that she's against sex-ed?!

Oh yeah... gods will trumps all. How could I forget. :banghead:

[LBJDemocrat]

3. It's a decent financial decision

Even if she doesn't win the election, she will have gained a lot of fame, setting the stage for future campaigns or even just for speaking fees.

[bunnies]

9. Fame at the cost of her 17 yo daughter.

She should change her last name to Lohan. :eyes:

[SteelPenguin]

4. It's her choice, but I'd never have made it

If I had a 4 month old Downs Syndrome child, and a 17 year old daughter 5 months pregnant, I wouldn't hide it, but I also wouldn't accept the VP nod if it were offered. Especially if i were only 44, because I'd see there would be plenty of time to continue my rise up the ranks.

[jobycom]

5. If I were any candidate, including Obama, I wouldn't put my family through this.

Who would? If there's no story, people will make crap up. Look at the assholes on DU who pushed the story that Palin faked a pregnancy to cover for her daughter. Now that those assholes are proven wrong, they are still gloating because they think they pushed McCain/Palin to admit to this pregancy. When they can justify flips like that, they can justify anything in support of their candidate. They are more interested in winning than in what they are winning for.

What decent person would want to get into politics? I'm amazed we can find anyone to run.

[bunnies]

6. I completely agree with you.

I stayed away from all the Palin baby threads. I dont have the patience for that crap. But I CAN NOT, for the life of me, imagine wanting to put my family through this kind of thing. I feel SO bad for Bristol... for the situation her Mother put her in. Unreal.

[KittyWampus]

Jobycom, I agree with your assessment.

[Doctor_J]

8. Yes, because I'd be a psycho power-hungry right-wing bitch

:shrug:

[Critters2]

10. If I had a 16 yo daughter who I believed to be sexually active,

I'd pay for her depo shots and make sure she knew how to use condoms. Whether I were running for VP or not.

[LibraLiz1973]

11. Not just no, HELL NO. And don't forget about the childs father.

I can't imagine what his family is going through now.
The newspapers will be all over his family too.

She's not just playing fast and loose with her own family here.

[TexasLady]

12. Explains why that beautiful girl always looks so sad

her momma probably read her the riot act..how could you do this to ME, etc..

[bunnies]

14. Yep.

Thats exactly how I envision it. SO sad.

[proud patriot]

13. personally I would not

not my daughter or any other loved one .

this kind of stuff should be vetted beforehand.

[DemsUnited]

15. I would NEVER walk into the national spotlight with a pregnant teenager in tow.

I would NEVER knowingly throw my daughter into the Media lion's den.

Sarah Palin recklessly endangered her unborn son on the flight from Texas to Alaska, and she had ZERO concern for her daughter's emotional wellbeing when she said yes to McCain's VP offer.

Family values? Family first?

Not in my book.

[Blarch]

16. I voted yes.

IF i were Sarah, I would.

If I was blarch, who I am ...then fuck no.

[moriah]

17. Uh, is it Sarah Palin who is putting her through this right now?

And if so, how?

By advocating abstinence-only sex education? If she advocates abstinence-only she likely taught that to her daughter, and may have taught it in a judgmental way. And so I can see some blame there. Again, my post about Fundies and their kids had a lot to do my opinion that so many Fundie kids rebel and get into things that their parents don't support is because the kids are afraid to talk to someone who they think is just going to judge them. But a teen's parent should be the person they are able to talk to it about -- the first person they talk to it about. While lots of teens go through the "I hate you and you're stupid and you know nothing" phase, the parent is still one of the most influential people in that child's life.

By being so busy as Governor that it made her daughter start having sex? You can't lock a girl up all day and night, and if she had sex with her boyfriend willingly then that was her choice, Palin's absence did not cause her to have sex.

For not encouraging her daughter to have an abortion? If her daughter wanted an abortion and she refused to allow her daughter to have one, then yes because I feel it should be a woman's choice -- including 17 year olds. If she wanted to keep the baby, though, that was her decision too and it is just as wrong to force a teen to have an abortion as it is to force them to carry a pregnancy to term.

Or for, after people slandered both of them with such a farfetched idea as the suggestion that Palin faked a pregnancy to cover up her daughter's pregnancy, decided to go ahead and admit that she was pregnant and ask for people to leave her alone? Instead of just keeping silent and making the rumors her daughter was bound to hear continue to escalate?

Uh, no, that's not Sarah's fault.

[bunnies]

18. By accepting the VP nod...

She puts her entire family under the microscope. If she had a half a brain, she'd have known her daughter would be pulled through the mud over this.

So, yes. Its Sarah's fault.