"This is a strange time to be a Republican. Am I just supposed to be cool with all this? Should I now recalibrate my family values to adjust for this unfortunate mess? Is teen pregnancy now just a sign of 'An American Family?' Is the desire to secede from the United States now a sign of patriotism? What the hell is going on here? First of all, I don’t want to hear from anyone that 'Sarah Palin’s family should be off limits'. This isn’t about Bristol Palin or Trig Palin or Earwax Palin or Mack Truck or whatever the hell the other ones are called. This is about the judgement, the beliefs and the managerial style of the woman who could be President of the United States. I see no reason to be polite. I think Palin’s decision to drag her daughter’s teen pregnancy into the international spotlight is not just ill-considered, it is morally bankrupt. And the story just gets creepier by the minute. So Bristol wasn’t pregnant last winter, but she is NOW? Did she get knocked up while she had mono? Was her mother so irresponsible that her daughter was having unprotected sex while bedridden with an infectious disease? Does this dude, who proclaimed not only that he doesn’t want kids but 'Ya f - - - with me I’ll kick [your] ass'…really want to marry her? Are these the kinds of marriages that are supposed to build strong families? My head is spinning. I’m a Republican because this party supports my beliefs: personal accountability, family values, country first. But now that same party is telling me that while those things are still important, they don’t mean what I thought they meant....I never thought I’d say it, but my vote is on the line. This choice is not aging like a fine wine, it’s molding like sour cream in the sun. DROP SARAH PALIN NOW. Send her back to Alaska and reclaim our values as conservatives and as Christians. A family is made up of a man and a woman who love each other, not a teenage girl and a douchebag, one of whom thinks she’s in love because she’s a child and the other who doesn’t give a rat’s ass because he only wants to 'hang out with the boys, do some fishing, shoot some s- - - and just f - - -in’ chill I guess.' The fact that this poor girl has been forced by her mother to eschew birth control and then 'take responsibility for the consequences' is not good parenting. It’s f____g child abuse. Sorry if that sounds harsh, but I love my country and my party, and both are swirling down the toilet in front of my eyes. John McCain, I’m giving you a do-over. Call Kay Bailey Hutchinson. Call Elizabeth Dole. Hell, call Olympia Snowe. But run from these rednecks like the plague. If we keep walking this path, the next State of the Union will involve a joint session of Congress screaming “Jer-ry! Jer-ry!” — Black Men For McCain blog, arguing that the situation re: Gov. Sarah Palin's pregnant teen daughter undermines GOP's family values argument
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So, I guess his family values would have called for an abortion? Those sure are different from my family values.
You and you alone decide what your family values are. Not a corrupt political organization. Rethugs.
First the decision to carry a pregnancy to term, adopt out or raise a child your self and the reasons you would decide to do any of the 3 is a personal decision. I don't like the idea of anyone or social group having any say so in such a private and serious decisions.
I am pro-choice, and not ashamed. Whether a woman had an abortion or not (and why) is private and is not subject to anyone's approval. Palin decided to keep her baby. That's her family's private business and no one (no matter how moral they presume to be) has the right to co-sign on it. Same goes for her daughter's pregnancy. Now it is a litmus test of how committedly pro-life Palin is? How is that? If she or her daughter aborted and we never knew (as we shouldn't) is it still a test of her committment to pro-life?
Her daughter gettign pregnant doesn't mean the Palin family has poor family values. It only means that the ability Bristol's parents to prevent their daughter from having an unplanned pregnancy out-of-wedlock (which is contrary tot heir values) was unsucessful. maybe it was the implementation of those values that failed, e.g. abstinence-only sex-ed, or keeping fingers crossed that young people don't have sex before marriage.
It's hard to place much stock in a post whose second important claim is a complete falsehood (that Sarah Palin ever had anything to do with seceding from the U.S.). Did you notice the commenter who tried to connect Palin with the extreme domininist movement, a view that 99% of socially conservative evangelicals consider completely nutty? There have been so many of these ridiculous claims that it's hard to imagine more, but now we've got a new one.
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