You know all those nasty rumors that Sarah Palin’s new baby is actually her grandson? Well today, Palin issued an airtight rebuttal:
“The 17-year-old daughter of Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin is pregnant, Palin said Monday in an announcement intended to knock down rumors by liberal bloggers that Palin faked her own pregnancy to cover up for her child.
Bristol Palin, one of Alaska Gov. Palin’s five children with her husband, Todd, is about five months pregnant and is going to keep the child and marry the father, the Palins said in a statement released by the campaign of Republican presidential candidate John McCain.
So… um… yeah, I suppose 4-month-old Trig couldn’t be Bristol’s baby, if she was one month pregnant at the time he was born. That is, assuming Bristol really is five months pregnant, as the Palins now claim.
For his part, Barack Obama thinks that bloggers like me should lay off of Bristol Palin:
“Let me be a clear as possible: I have said before and I will repeat again, I think people’s families are off limits,” Obama said, “and people’s children are especially off limits.
“This shouldn’t be part of our politics,” he continued, “It has no relevance to Gov. Palin’s performance as governor, or her potential performance as a vice president.
“And so I would strongly urge people to back off these kinds of stories,” he said. “You know my mother had me when she was 18, and how a family deals with issues and, you know, teenage children, that shouldn’t be the topic of our politics and I hope that anybody who is supporting me understands that’s off limits.”
Yeah, I suppose. But you know, really… the minute her holy roller mother accepted the Republican nomination for Vice President was the minute Bristol Palin’s 17-year-old, unmarried uterus ceased to be a wholly private matter. I don’t doubt that Bristol’s decision to keep her baby is the right one for her and her family (the shotgun wedding, well… not so much), but this whole incident just underscores the failure of the Republican Party’s faith-based approach to reproductive health.
As her mother, I suppose Sarah Palin had every right to attempt to deny her daughter access to birth control or even medically accurate sex education, but if we ever truly want to address our nation’s epidemic of teen pregnancy, we’re crazy to have folks like Sarah Palin controlling our public policy.
(Oh, and by the way, this bullshit meme about the rumor being started by “liberal bloggers” …? A Seattle-based consultant active in Alaska politics tells me that she’s heard this rumor “for months,” so it was well established within Alaska’s chattering class long before McCain tapped Palin as his running mate. So there.)
TRICK QUESTION OF THE DAY:
Let’s take a 17 year old girl, who is not married. The girl engages in sexual relations with a man six years older than she is, and becomes pregnant. The girl decides to keep the baby. When the girl is several months pregnant, the father finally agrees to marry her. The father moves away when the child is two years ago, and the parents get divorced.
Would you even consider voting for the child for an important, critical position as President or Vice-President of the United States? How about the child’s grandparents (i.e. the parents of the girl who got pregnant out of wedlock when she was 17)?
I think we should let the girl know that we’ll provide funds if she wants to have an abortion. Heck – I’ll pay for it if she needs it. Better to abort than to have an unwanted child that the “GOP” stops caring about the second it’s born.
A near adult getting pregnant and planning to marry the father is not nearly as disturbing as Joe Bidens obvious drinking problem. This lousy drunk is sure to get more coverage as we near November and you kids should be scared shitless. If the Obama camp doesn’t do an intervention soon, ol’ drunkard Joe will provide plenty of campaign ads for the McCain camp.
Hey Joe! where you going with that bottle in your hand? wasn’t
Of course, pigfucking liberal fascists like pre-pubescent sounding, out-of-work radio hosts like David gold stain will never bring the story to light. It will take the blogosphere to expose the drunken Veep nominee.
OHMYGAWD! It was meant to be just a fishing trip in Alaska. Sue I had a few beers, but she said she was 18.
Geez Pope-no wonder you couldn’t win an election against an incumbent with a recent DUI!
Shouldn’t this bitch’s boyfriend be arrested for statutory rape?
Rumors are that the father is 16…
These little bitches get knocked-up and think it’s our responsibility to pick up the tab.
I’m pro-choice. Have the personal responsibility to pay for your choice. Pay for your own abortion and/or pay to raise your kids. It’s not my fault that you can’t practice birth control!
I’m not here to pay for your choices!
We should all lay off the kid. The mother, on the other hand did not display the best judgment walking into the intense scrutiny and spotlight on family she had to know was coming.
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I predict there will be a “miscarriage” brought on by stress from all the attention from the “librul MSM” and the “librul bloggers”.
Hmmm. Five months pregnant – that does put the arrival of this bundle of joy some time after Nov 5 does it not?
Nice timing.
@1 Yeah, I might vote for that kid, but I’d hesitate before voting for his mother, and I sure as hell wouldn’t vote for his father.
@3 Joe Biden has better judgment drunk than McCain does sober.
@5 It would seem so … except, you know, in Republican states the laws are only enforced against Democrats.
@10 Her boyfriend exhibited extremely bad judgment banging her when she was 8 months pregnant. That may be why her first kid has Down’s.
Republicans: Overpopulating the planet eight kids at a time.
Palin’s Immoral decsion
Of course we may never know whether Governor palance and her husband planned pregnancy. I, for one, hope it was not and that this little kid is a product of a mad moment of passion between the Plain Parents.
Palin, then a 43 you woman, knowingly had intercourse with her hubby, presumably sans protection. Was this passion? A moral objection to rubbers? The worst possibility is that this was planned, WITH the knowledge that she had a 5% chance of giving birth to severely disabled child.
She might as well have taken a gun, filled a clip with one blank and 19 loads, and pointed it at a child.
This is NOT simply about her belief in the right to life. That belief .. like any other belief in a right, ought to also bring with it a sense of responsibility. If you already have four children is it ethical to plan a fifth knowing the risk is this high?
Is this a role model for the Daisey Mays of this world or for the ideals Palin cliams to have?
wal-mart quiverfull-dominionism at it’s best.
I’m thinking about trolling the high school for some hot Republican action. These girls that grow up in Republican households really respond to the authoritarian angle: they love it and they hate it, but they aren’t raised to think for themselves. All you have to do is come on strong and then it is hot time in the back seat time.
On second thought, 16? No, I don’t think so. Too much instruction involved.
@16
“She might as well have taken a gun, filled a clip with one blank and 19 loads, and pointed it at a child.”
Steve, not to be too pedantic, but your analogy is flawed – in a couple of respects.
First of all, with a 5% chance of a disabled child, then it should be 19 blanks, and 1 live round. Second, that doesn’t really work anyway, since there are no revolvers that hold that many rounds. Only an automatic uses magazines. With a revolver you could “play roulette”, but with an automatic there is no randomness factor, as the rounds feed in succession.
The Palin Meltdown in Slo-Mo
By Greg Sargent – September 1, 2008, 6:20PM
On the same day that the Republicans were forced to dramatically cut back their convention activities, the Palin Meltdown unfolded with extraordinary speed. It’s worth pondering the totality of what happened today, in a mere half day…
* The news that Palin once backed the Bridge to Nowhere went national.
* It emerged that Palin has links to the bizarro Alaska Independence Party, which harbors the goal of seceding from the union that McCain and Palin seek to lead.
* The news broke that as governor, Palin relied on an earmark system she now opposes. Taken along with the Bridge to Nowhere stuff, this threatens to undercut her reformist image, something that was key to her selection as McCain’s Veep candidate.
* The news broke that Palin’s 17-year-old daughter became pregnant out of wedlock at a time when the conservative base had finally started rallying behind McCain’s candidacy.
* Barely moments after McCain advisers put out word that McCain had known of Bristol Palin’s pregnancy, the Anchorage Daily News revealed that Palin’s own spokesperson hadn’t known about it only two days ago.
* A senior McCain adviser at the Republican convention was forced into the rather embarrassing position of arguing that McCain had known about the pregnancy “last week” — without saying what day last week he knew about it.
* It came out that Republican lawyers are up in Alaska vetting Palin — now, more than 72 hours after it was announced that she’d been picked.
* Palin lawyered up in relation to the trooper-gate probe in Alaska — a move that ensures far more serious attention to the story from the major news orgs.
What else will come out today? After all, there are still six hours left until September 2nd…
http://tpmelectioncentral.talk....._slomo.php
Men who have affairs with younger women have a higher incidence of previous molestation of their own children. Which leads me to wonder if Bill Clinton sexually molested Chelsea as a very young child (from about 2 to 7 years old).
Thoughts?
Palin Hires Lawyer for Trooper-Gate Investigation
By Kate Klonick – September 1, 2008, 5:20PM
MSNBC just reported that presumptive vice-presidential nominee and Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has hired a lawyer in relation to the Trooper-Gate scandal.
Alaska State Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Hollis French told TPMmuckraker that Palin has hired Thomas Van Flein, an Anchorage attorney at the law firm of Clapp, Peterson, Van Flein, Tiemessen & Thorsness. French said that Van Flein has already been in contact with him, regarding the ongoing investigation of Palin.
Van Flein has represented the Alaska Dental Society and according to a cached version of his firm website, specializes in professional liability — including licensing issues, commercial litigation, appellate practice, and employment law.
From the AP:
Anchorage attorney Thomas V. Van Flein has requested a copy of all witness statements and documentary evidence from the Legislature’s investigator, Stephen Branchflower. Sen. Hollis French, an Anchorage Democrat, says he instructed Branchflower not to comply with the request.
Did McCain Know About Pregnancy Before Picking Palin?
By Greg Sargent – September 1, 2008, 3:29PM
Is it really possible that the McCain campaign is refusing to say whether McCain knew about Bristol’s pregnancy before picking Sarah Palin as his running mate?
Apparently so:
Reporters at the Republican national convention hammered McCain senior adviser Steve Schmidt about the Palin pregnancy during a press conference. All Schmidt would say is Palin and McCain had discussed the pregnancy and considered it to be a private matter.
He wouldn’t say if they talked about it before McCain picked Palin as his vice presidential nominee.
Say what? So what did McCain know about this woman before putting her within reach of controlling the most powerful military in human history?
Amusingly, McCain adviser Schmidt is saying that McCain knew about the pregnancy “last week,” which also includes Saturday and all day Friday after the announcement, of course.
Late Update: MSNBC’s reporters on-scene with Schmidt add this:
Top McCain campaign official Steve Schmidt told a scrum of reporters in St. Paul that McCain was aware of Bristol Palin’s pregnancy “last week,” though he would not say specifically which day last week.
And the descent into self-parody and farce continues apace..
My thoughts, troll, are that you are an amoral slimeball. This is just another in a list of baseless allegations you post.
Sarah Palin And The Alaska Independence Party
By Greg Sargent – September 1, 2008, 11:12AM
This seems worth digging into a bit. The Alaska Independence Party, which was formed with the goal of seceding from the union and establishing Alaska as an independent state, says that Palin addressed their 2008 convention.
The AIP has posted video of what it claims is her address on its Web site.
It’s hard to gauge how fringe the group is. Its Website features this quote from one of its founders:
“The problem with you John Birchers’ is that you are too damn liberal!”
— Joseph Vogler, Founder Alaskan Independence Party
…and here’s AIP’s list of goals:
Until we as Alaskans receive our Ultimate Goal, the AIP will continue to strive to make Alaska a better place to live with less government interference in our everyday lives.
The Alaskan Independence Party’s goal is the vote we were entitled to in 1958, one choice from among the following four alternatives:
1) Remain a Territory.
2) Become a separate and Independent Nation.
3) Accept Commonwealth status.
4) Become a State.
The party says its not a fringe party anymore, but this “Ultimate Goal” stuff seems pretty kooky. And it is still describing this as a goal: “Become a separate and independent nation.”
ST.PAUL — In her nationally televised speech accepting the job as John McCain’s running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin said she “championed reform to end the abuses of earmark spending by Congress” and opposed federal funding for a controversial bridge to a sparsely populated island.
“I told Congress, ‘Thanks, but no thanks,’ on that bridge to nowhere,” Palin said Friday in Ohio, using the critics’ dismissive name of the project. “‘If our state wanted a bridge,’ I said, ‘we’d build it ourselves.'”
While running for governor in 2006, though, Palin backed federal funding for the infamous bridge, which McCain helped make a symbol of pork barrel excess.
And as mayor of the small town of Wasilla from 1996 to 2002, Palin also hired a Washington lobbying firm that helped secure $8 million in congressionally directed spending projects, known as earmarks, according to public spending records compiled by the watchdog group Citizens Against Government Waste and lobbying documents.
Wasilla’s lobbying firm was headed by Steven Silver — a former chief of staff to Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens, a key proponent of the bridge projec
Face It: They Didn’t Vet Her
09.01.08 — 7:24PM
By Josh Marshall
Earlier I noted Andrea Mitchell’s reference to reports that the McCain camp had just sent a team of GOP lawyers up to Alaska to do what I guess you’d call a post-vetting of Sarah Palin. Now George Stephanopoulos appears to have more. George says the McCainers are sending a “rapid response team of about ten operatives that includes lawyers” to do the aforementioned deeper vet. A lot of attention is being given to Gov. Palin’s daughter’s situation. The much bigger deal is the expanding trooper-gate investigation, the fact that Palin lied in her Friday speech about her purported opposition to the Bridge to Nowhere, her apparent former membership in the secessionist Alaska Independence Party, and more. Individually, you can come to your own judgment about how consequential these stories are. What they show pretty clearly now — in addition to the news that the McCain campaign is only now sending in a vetting team — is that John McCain didn’t do any serious vetting of Palin before he invited her to join his ticket and, he hopes, become Vice President of the United States.
Fundamentally, of course, this is about John McCain. And the real issue here is what this slapdash decision says about his judgment.
@18 Check this out, I-Burn – a 20 shot revolver.
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I bet fucking ADAM (you know, of Adam and Eve) fucked a younger woman. The moron at #20 can’t be SERIOUS.
That’s the fucking oldest story in the book.
What an ignoramus.
Typical rethuglicant.
Check out all the donk talking points in #19. It will be fun to watch the real media shoot down each point. Like fish in a barrel.
@30
Stop lickin yurself!!!
@27
Steve, I hadn’t ever heard of this before. Very nice… Thank you. Wish I could think of something clever relating to its’ French origins, but I’m ‘drawing a blank’. ;-)
@16 I-burn
Hmmm.
I assume you can randomize what you put in the clip of an automatic?
Since I assume there will only be one shot ????
Second, you assume a different intent hen I did. I sugegstted the intent was to have a 1/20 chance of not hitting the target .. Freud made me put a child in the crss hairs.
Oh well a simile that needs explaining is not very good.
3 RD
You mean Dubya’s drinking problem, don’t you? Or do you mean McCain doing body shots with his wife while she pops Vicodin?
20 T
You go ahead and wonder. Was that a woody?
We know iBurn didn’t fuck her. That coward only fucks little boys. Don’t you blog bitch?
Come on now jump. Post some more of your drivel here.
JUMP!
30 JBD
It looks like most or all of that is absolutely true.
It’s certainly true, and well-documented, that in 2006 she ran on her approval of the Bridge to Nowhere as part of her gubernatorial run.
The interesting thing to me is the Palin family insists that it is young whatever-her-name-is’ “decision” to keep the baby of her current pregnancy. The funny part is that Palin and her people don’t believe in “choice” at all when it comes to women’s reproductive issues. How come her kid gets a “choice” when no other women should, according to their warped beliefs?
The interesting thing to me is the Palin family insists that it is young whatever-her-name-is’ “decision” to keep the baby of her current pregnancy. The funny part is that Palin and her people don’t believe in “choice” at all when it comes to women’s reproductive issues. How come her kid gets a “choice” when no other women should, according to their warped beliefs?
Ignoring everything else, The Alaskan Independence Party thing is gonna sink Gov. Palin.
You can’t spin secession.
Palin keeps saying that her last child was her choice to have, but she would fight tooth and nail, to take that choice away from any other woman.
@36
BBG, why don’t you regale us with more tales of your vast sexual prowess? Surely anyone who talks about it as much as you do, must be getting it all the time, eh?
Oh, wait a minute… I got that wrong! Anyone talking about it all the time, and as disrespectfully as you, isn’t getting any more than left and right hands. Sorry about that.
And you were still too cowardly to meet me at the Everett Mall, when you had the chance. You even claimed to have had a “friend” with you, and were too frightened. Truly pathetic, you little worm. Not that I’m surprised. You really are all mouth, no balls.
Now, why don’t you run along outside and play hide and go fuck yourself!
How can we trust Palin to be vice president when she cannot even run her family?
What kind of mother would subject her seventeen year old child to this kind of media?
I admire Obama for trying to protect Palin’s daughter, but she would have to be an idiot to think in this day of 24 hour television and the Internet that this story would be ignored.
huh?
44
Remarkably, Palin said that she would expect people to respect the privacy of her daughter and “Levi,” presumably the baby’s father. What world does she live in? Did she even consider her daughter’s interests? What kind of parent buys off on running for VP with a 5 month-old baby and a pregnant 17 year-old daughter? The sense that I’m getting of Palin is a recklessly ambitious control freak, who really doesn’t get policy, but has an incredibly inflated sense of herself. She takes arrogance and presumptuousness to a new level. McCain fucked up bad. Palin, I believe, is the gift that will just keep on giving this electoral season. Thank you, Lord.
So fucking what – a pretty young woman beyond the age of consent get pregnant .. you are of bunch of WITCH hunters.
I think Goldy is in the dumpster to go on and on about this.
Sad.
Obama was conceived out of wedlock, so was my sister and hundreds of millions of other humans worldwide — bunch of rejects here.
It is Bristol’s body, her eggs, her vagina, and her choice.
And her right to privacy – fucking jackals.
@47 “her choice”
And just what choice is that? Her mother has said that even if a woman is raped that she should have no “choice”.
“WITCH hunters”
Ken Starr comes to mind. Payback is a bitch, huh?
47
You don’t get it, do you? I could give a rat’s ass that the girl got herself pregnant. Her mother, however, seems to give a damn about nothing but herself. She is arrogant, an intellectual lightweight, and incapable of understanding nuance. As I think about it, those are essential characteristics of Republican politicians. No wonder McCain picked her. (And, lord, I’m so pleased he did.)
I bet she’s dumped from the ticket within a week.
Yes, the disgusting have shown their true colors. Many of them here as lefties.
townhall.com/blog/g/9b3375c7-6a27-4b5e-9204-b267282a1ce1
Proud Leftist: Maybe you give a rats ass but your lefty “friends” care about Bristol.
Read the moronic lefty yelling loser boy favrit sites lately?
We all know Obama says stop it but we know he’s cheering it on behind the scenes.
It looks like you’re losing it there, Pudnuts.
Steve, with you being the yardstick I am really worried.
I’m quivering.
I’d hand your ass to you again, Pudnuts, but it’s late and I’m tired. Come back tomorrow.
@20 “Men who have affairs with younger women have a higher incidence of previous molestation of their own children. Which leads me to wonder if Bill Clinton sexually molested Chelsea as a very young child (from about 2 to 7 years old).
Thoughts?”
We live in a society that presumes people innocent until proven guilty, and deems innuendo without evidence disreputable.
Based on the amount of evidence you’ve presented in support of your thesis, my thoughts are that (a) you’re full of shit and (b) you’re a slimy piece of shit.
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Puddy,
Come on get real. Where was the control when Harold Ford, Jr was made to like he did hookers? Where was the control when the swift boating occurred with Kerry? Where was the control with the lying attack ads run by RNC in any number of races? At least Obama actually said something against what is going on. He is a realist in the end, he knows this is helping him, only an idiot (Republicans everywhere) would think otherwise. But he still spoke up.
Of course that is easy to do when your opponent is imploding before your eyes with absolutely no effort on your part.
Puddy, are you not voting for Obama as you said a few months ago?
I said two days ago that Sarah would not last 14 days on the ticket. I am now predicting that she won’t last until Thursday’s acceptance speech. She will withdraw her name in the next 48 hours for “family reasons” and considerations.
Good bye, Sarah. We hardly knew ye.
McSame is so toast now. I almost pity him, but his wife has a $100 million to help him get over it.
57 and 58:
Please don’t drink and then attempt to post here. Just proves what an ass your are.
It’s not about Bristol or her uterus, it’s about a ideology that says we want abstinence only sex Ed and then holds up a pregnant 16 year old girl who’s “going to marry the daddy” as some sort of positive example. Sorry no.
@60
I figured they picked her because everyone else dropped out. Hmm… I wonder who’s left.
@1
If Bristol (or her kid) grows up to be the editor of the Harvard Law Review, lecture on constitutional law at the University of Chicago, serve in the Illinois state house and the U.S. Senate and be a good liberal, hell yeah I’d vote for her.
@8
Yup!
Once again, Goldy proves himself to be a liar.
News at 11.
(Hint: Goldy has no damned clue what sex education Sarah Palin provided to her daughter. Only a completely brainwashed government slave would assume that if the government didn’t do it, then it didn’t get done.)
The compassionate left again shows what fools and liars they are. Just nothing but hate filled idiots who want to destroy anyone that is not them.
And you know for a fact they didn’t use a condom? How do you know this? If it failed, would you condemn safe-sex education?
Oh, and you guys also suck for picking on her in the first place.
What a bunch of sick slimy sewer rats taking the political arena to a new low. Hopefully you have completed digging your verbal grave.
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Yeah, Jamie Lynn Spears thought that SHE was going to marry her baby daddy too, but found out that teenagers don’t always start lifelong relationships. I would not be surprised if Palin’s young child discovers the same thing.
Reading the looney left posts on here I realize why I could never be a “progressive”. Evidently it means killing all unborn babies, rejecting any and all life style choices that you don’t agree with and ridiculing those with any views other than yours! Oh, and you have to claim that you are “inclusive” and people should have “choices” and we should “respect differing opinions”. Sorry, I could never be that hypocritical, even in my worst moments.
Obama has blue lips.
This website is totally what I expect from Seattle Libs (I live in Fremont, so I’m an expert on their stupidity). This site a motivation only to twisted progressive who find joy in tearing apart a 17 year old girl. I suppose that it could only get worse if you all pulled your resources and offered to pay for an abortion.
Sick and twisted. You make knucklehead conservatives look like pikers.
I should not be surprised by the hate spewed by the left. I was once center left until I began listening to the crap from my “fellow travelers” and paying taxes. I than moved right and haven’t regretted it. I dislike politicians, I just hate the Republicans slightly less than I do the Dems and being a liberal an like a cult. If I wanted religion I would go to the Church, Mosque, Temple, Synagogue……other
I watched Gov. Sarah Palin give her acceptance speech tonight, and really it was about what I expected, not awe inspiring, but not bad either. I write my perspective in peoplepowergranny.blogspot.com tonight. Please vote in my poll and let me know what you liked or didn’t like about her talk tonight.