I formally offer Sarah Palin my apologies..

[SoCalDem]

She is not a pretend Momma to her daughter's baby..She's just the WORST excuse for a Mom on the planet..

I scoffed at the suggestion that she might have been "wishing Trig" away by her recklessness, but it's becoming apparent that she may well have been doing just that..


By NOT telling anyone until 7 months, and doing all that jogging around , perhaps she was waiting for God to "intervene", and then she would never have had to tell anyone anything about HER pregnancy...and of course the plane trip was the cherry on top of risky behavior..Had the baby not "made it" , it would have been God's will, and she would be the saintly Sarah, who tried valiantly to have that little baby..(another notch in her Championship Belt of Gutsiness)

but you have to hand it to Trig...He's a determined little guy.. He got here anyway..

So Sarah, I apologize for thinking you were covering for your daughter...But I will not apologize for the cavalier way you handled your high risk pregnancy..

Here's hoping you will be a better Grandma, than you have been a mother..

Best of luck to Bristol and her boyfriend.

[NJmaverick]

1. She did cover for her daughter

Mono any one?

[SoCalDem]

4. True, but not in the way I thought she had

:evilgrin:

[knitter4democracy]

2. She risked her and her baby's life to score political points.

That's all we need to know.

[seemslikeadream]

3. me to I guess

What did I miss?

[SoCalDem]

5. McCain campaign just announced Bristol's pregnancy

These folks are gonna need a bigger house that the Veep quarters..and a herd of nannies :)

[seemslikeadream]

6. I'm sorry but could you answer a question?

How does that have anything to do with her not having a baby in April?

[SoCalDem]

9. apparently she did..

go figure :eyes:

[seemslikeadream]

11. no I mean Bristol

[dbonds]

8. More specifically, 5 months pregnant, so she was pregnant when Sarah gave birth.

[seemslikeadream]

10. well that seems to be convenient timing

[dbonds]

15. 4 months and we will know the truth of that.

I don't know if that would be the most convenient counter argument to the baby rumor, this one still opens up all the abstinence only methods of birth control to ridicule and discussion. But I still think the abuse of power with trooper gate and doctor gate is the best line of attack with her.

[SecularMotion]

19. 4 months from now on the other side of the election

There are too many unanswered questions about Sarah Palin's "pregnancy". This announcement doesn't answer any of those questions. If she lied about the pregnancy before she can do it again. Sarah and the McCain campaign need to offer more concrete answers and solid proof before the rumor of her faking a pregnancy is settled.

Demanding answers is not on attack on her daughter or women. The core issue is the candidate's credibility.

[dbonds]

20. No, the core issue is the abuse of power.

This is a distraction and will be used against us to show how evil we are questioning this. And if the baby swap issue by some wild chance is true, it won't be a negative to them. Right wingers cover for the children in this manner a lot. To keep pushing this is to disarm a real and damning issue, her abuse of power and corruption.

[orleans]

30. i think it's bullshit. (5 months, 4 months, what's the difference?

they'll do a smoke and mirrors bit with all of us. but WE know women can get pregnant very shortly after giving birth--)

[POAS]

24. According to them it is 5 months...

[Ikonoklast]

29. They'll have to get invited by Joe and Jill

Only way the Palins will ever see the inside of that place.

[Wheezy]

7. What sort of mother

plunges into the limelight and does this to her pregnant 17-year-old daughter? How could she NOT know this would happen? I feel very sorry for Bristol.

[bkkyosemite]

12. I feel sorry for Bristol and the other kids in that family. The mother is a liar

have said it all along re: babygate. She is a liar, a liar, a liar.........and my brother who is a repub is still acting like McCain is an old military gentleman........omg.........

[dchill]

18. "a liar, a liar, a liar..."

Yup. Welcome to DU!

:hi:

[bkkyosemite]

13. oh oh this was a duplicate sorry...

[bkkyosemite]

14. Is system slow for anyone else ...that's why I got a duplicate...

[madrchsod]

17. yup--- just went to defcom 1

[POAS]

25. That's been my point all along!

Dragging a pregnant teen onto the national stage.

[madrchsod]

16. yup i agree with that

the dad and mom are losers..

[DS1]

21. Really though, I hope she doesn't give a rat's ass what you think on the matter

formal apologies. Jesus Christ. :eyes:

[SoCalDem]

23. You can't see the sarcasm without the little symbol

:)

[Jack Rabbit]

22. Thank you

As one who is a CT skeptic in the first place and found nothing substantial to these rumors, I appreciate your apology.

If we want to make political hay out of this, it's a demonstration of the failure of abstinence only sex education which Governor Palin advocates. To accuse her of unwisely opting bring a child with Down's Syndrome into the world rather than aborting it is out of bounds as everybody knows that would violate her most deeply held beliefs. Even accusing her of risky behavior, other than the plane flight from Texas that is a no-brainer, seems to assume we know that she was going against her doctor's advice.

I join you wishing the best of luck to Miss Palin, her boyfriend and their families, and especially to the unborn child and to Trig.

[BlooInBloo]

26. Unless this daughter-pregnant-now thing is a lie....

Which gets covered up by a "miscarriage" in a week or two.


EDIT: Subject typo.

[bkkyosemite]

27. I thought of that one too

[SoCalDem]

28. We'll see, I guess... and hopefully by then, Mrs Moose will have vanished

She really needs to go back to Alaska.. and the sooner the better..

can you imagine the mood at the convention:rofl:

Their party got ruined.. the signs were all wrong, and now they've discovered their veep choice is squirrelier than that Old Oak tree full of yellow ribbons :)

[Wednesdays]

33. Week or two? Try November 4th.

[Tutonic]

31. National Enquirer will have the real story soon. Palin is Lyin.

[AZ Criminal JD]

32. You are a true idiot

BTW tell us about your perfect family. At least your fantasy version.

[Wednesdays]

34. Wow, she's running for Vice President, too?

And let's see...I'm trying to find all her posts preaching abstinence-only and "right-to-life". Haven't had any luck yet. :shrug:

[SoCalDem]

37. you won't find any

:)

[SoCalDem]

35. Are you looking in a mirror, by chance

:rofl:

[AZ Criminal JD]

39. At least I have a mirror. I'm sure yours are all cracked.

[Sanctified]

36. Here, Here whats wrong with women today, when my Great Grandma had 9 kids she never left the house.

n/t

[holiday]

38. i

thought the same thing but didn't want to say it. There is no other explanation to her actions other than she didn't really care whether she had the baby or not. It must have been a surprise and she didn't really want to be pregnant