All’s Fair in Gov. Palin’s Family Values
Gov. Sarah Palin with her daughter Bristol and baby Trigg. This photo was found on Bristol's Myspace page over the weekend, before someone woke up and had Bristol set her profile to private. Bristol's caption on this photo is "Mommy Inlaw Trigg and Myself." Mommy Inlaw. What does that mean?
John McCain’s choice for the vice presidential nomination was a hail Mary pass to out-buzz Obama’s masterful performance in Denver’s football stadium. But he clearly fumbled the ball. Republican pundits are really twisting logic and reason to the breaking point with their irrational and highly ironic defense of McCain’s choice Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin for vice president from a number of unflattering angles.
“Troopergate” is being dismissed on national television by trying to deflect the conversation to variations of “he (Governor Palin’s former brother-in-law) is not a nice guy at all.” Okay. So abuse of power is okay if you’re abusing your power to hurt someone who’s not a good person? Will that be Palin’s defense when she talks to the investigators appointed by the Alaska State Legislature?
Meanwhile, Barack Obama is trying to take the high road, declaring Gov. Palin’s children off-limits in political discourse, referring to the controversy over Palin’s unmarried, pregnant 17-year-old daughter Bristol. But I respectfully disagree. I strongly, defiantly disagree. Of course, it’s not the glaring lack of family values that a pregnant high school daughter that is the worst reflection on Palin (although clearly she should have practiced the “teach abstinence” she preaches). What reflects unflatteringly on Gov. Palin is that she herself put her daughter in the political fray. The governor’s statement on her daughter’s situation tells us that, unlike Senator Obama, she has no problem using her daughter for political purposes. That is what all the national pundits are missing. When Gov. Palin stated that she “is proud of her daughter’s decision to keep her baby,” she made Bristol a political tool.
Being proud of Bristol’s “decision to keep her baby” is Republican political code for, “See, I’m against abortion, even when my daughter has an unwanted and unplanned pregnancy.” Sarah Palin made her daughter the political poster child for anti-choice zealots. That is why Bristol Palin’s pregnancy is fair game. Her mother made it political. Period. End of story.
If Republicans and the media can’t see that, then irrationality, double standards and hypocrisy have reached heights never before seen. They can’t be serious, can they?
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September 2nd, 2008 at 6:30 pm
Sarah Palin is the 2008 version of the 1972 Tom Eagleton fisaco for the democrats. A train wreck ready to happen!
Too bad there aren’t nudes of her..oh wait, yes there are!!!
September 2nd, 2008 at 8:47 pm
What really irritates me is that they intentionally threw the daughter under the media bus. If they wanted to counter rumors that Trig was Bristol’s baby, all they had to do what to get a statement from the doctor or heck even a picture when she was in the hospital after she gave birth. Few people would have wondered or cared if Bristol was currently pregnant. She could have gotten quietly married, had her baby and that would be it. Instead the Republicans chose to bring it to the media’s attention. From day one she trotted out her family as the reason she should be a vice presidential candidate.
Apparently troopergate is similar to librariangate when she was mayor.