Sarah Palin: Pregnancy Proven

Thanks, Rhonda. Joellerose also has a good story on this smear campaign that's attacking a child as well as Palin.

These slime merchants don't care if they hurt a child. Thanks, Paschen.

EL nothing shows up in your comment, but that's OK as you said it was a rumor. But I went and looked it up anyway, and just saw another leftist smear.

Oh, yes, good point,  she is normal, LOL

Solarlife, I don't like teen pregnancy, because I am a big advocate of education first. However, teen pregnancy happens here in the U.S. too. There are many ways of dealing with it.

Some people think--and apparently those sliming Palin are among them--that the parents and family should paste a scarlet letter and disown and expel the child just when she needs support the most. Others think that an immediate abortion is in order.

But the right course is the one that Palin and her family have chosen: to support her daughter, to welcome the child, to counsel with the couple, and to advise marriage. Other than locking women up in buildings and not allowing them out into the world except under male guard--oh wait! they already do that in parts of the world and in some jihad-loving religions--these things will happen.

We've created a society that is sex-drenched. Even little girls are wearing makeup and trying to be "sexy" even before they understand what it means. So we can talk about how kids "ought" to behave, but all around them are the ads, the TV shows, the movies, the adults, and as everyone knows, kids do what they see, not what's lectured to them.

As far as the young woman becoming pregnant so early--here's the deal. Everyone who never ever had a sexual encounter, or even wanted one, in their teens is free to judge her in terms of morals, IMHO. Let me ask everyone who's attacking her, and mocking her, and using it to push party politics these questions: 1) how old were you when you first became aware of sex? 2) how old were you when you began to masturbate? 3) how old were you when you had your first sexual encounter? 4) did you always use proper birth control at every sexual encounter of your life? 5) have you ever had sexual intercourse outside of what "morality" demands, i.e. marriage? 6) has anyone in your family ever become pregnant before the age of 21, married or unmarried? 7) if unmarried, did your family throw them away and out onto the street?

If the answers to #1 through 3 aren't 21 (the legal age of adulthood in the U.S. legally speaking, in many terms), if the answer to #4 isn't "yes", the answer to #5 "no", the answer to #6 no, and therefore, no answer needed to #7,then the person judging is being a hypocrite.

The amazing thing is that the moral tut-tutting and shaming of a young woman is coming from the Democrats and liberals, those people who supposedly avow women's rights and, they say, equal treatment for all. But suddenly, they're acting like Salem, and wanting to shame and punish a young woman.

I used to be a Democrat. But the Democratic party, over the years, changed from what it had been (as political groups will do). So I switched, and every day I become happier that I did. The level of personal vituperation coming from the left is disgraceful. There's almost no chance to have a reasonable discourse on issues anymore without the same cant popping up.

The groups that are sliming Palin and shaming her daughter--and I think that dragging all this out for judgment is far more shameful than the younger Palin getting pregnant--are perfectly OK with a candidate who's signed a church covenant to put their allegiance to Africa first above all else, who's had his daughters raised in a church led by a man who proclaims "God Damn America", a man who's been mentored by a known anti-American terrorist, and, a man who recommended and helped a now-convicted dishonest businessman to his success.

Those issues loom large. Family issues like a teen pregnancy pale in comparison. 

And thanks for the flag!

What you're missing, deliberately so, is that this particular discussion is focused on the vile attack on a child whose parent happens to be prominent. Check the headline and post to verify that. If you happen to have a comment supporting the anonymous posting of a rumor at DailyKos and would like to tell us why you think that is a good level of discourse in American politics, feel free to share that.

Dear anonymous person doing a drive-by: is it possible for you to stop with the cant already and maybe focus on just one issue at a time and evaluate that? Yes, I know--that will take time and analysis, and then a conclusion based upon many factors.

Never mind, much easier to drive by spouting tired old cant and phrases that are heard in some quarters rather than reasonable discussion of one issue at a time.

So, how's your score on the moral righteousness test I posted? Perfect score? Good, then you're apparently one of the rare ones who is, like Salem leaders, good enough to judge others by virture of cant, group think, and without pausing to give due consideration.

Thanks, cassy82. What we're really talking about here is the standard of discourse in American politics.

Thanks for the flag. I hope laying it down didn't cause some sort of permanent injury or anything.         ;}