I’d just like to say thank you for referring to 44 as young. LOL!
This situation has been on my mind as well. I guess she will have to respond in her own way, to be authentic. Gov. Palin represents so much of what American women aspire to be. Shoot, even Michelle Obama was on the campaign trail telling women to not get corporate jobs but to get service jobs and fight for things with passion. Gov. Palin has done just that and the Obama/DNC Dems are shredding her.
She has no need to respond to idiots and dummies. Anyone who would believe their drivel is too stupid to vote.
It’s the same pickle Kerry was in.
If you address the accusation, you spread them even faster and confirm them in peoples minds.
If you dont address the accusation, you let the accusation stand, which comes off as an admission of guilt.
Kerry chose silence for weeks. Seeing the damage it inflicted (ha!), he made the wrong choice.
Palin needs to disarm this by addressing the substance of the accusation, which is to speak clearly on why Bristol was out of school and out of the house while Sarah was pregnant, which is the big ‘evidence’ that’s giving this thing legs.
Almost all DBM sycophants aren't going to touch this with a ten foot pole. This story in the same ball park as the Sinclair story with Obama.
When and if this makes it to the MSM, teams of surrogates need to blast all forms of media comparing this to the Sinclair story, that will stop it in a heartbeat as their messiah cannot be linked with a sleaze story, even if it true
She shouldn’t address it. Let someone else in the party go after it.
If we allow them to set the tone and keep us running defense, trying to counter every ridiculous cry from them, we lose the ability to spread all the positive about this lady.
Truth prevails and if we get wrapped in their silly games, we just give them a sounding board to spread their hate further.
As Bill Kristol wrote, Let Palin be Palin.
The nature of politics has gotten cut throat and people end up hurt, but with the parents Bristol has, she will come out fine.
Common sense says that if they were covering anything up, they would not have allowed the photo of them, showing Bristol with a teenaged poochy belly, to be published in the first place. But don't forget, the left has no common sense.
Point out the obvious to friends who bring it up and move on to her strong positive aspects. She'll handle rumors if she feels they need handled.
Maybe the best thing to do is nothing.
Let them spill their vitriol and see how the voting public responds. Biden especially. His mouth is bigger than his brain and I'm sure he'll trip on it before this is over. Just my thoughts.
Politics is dirty. The whole family will be subject to it.
Lynn Cheney and Laura Bush are excellent models. Both faced this. They can advise her on how to respond (if at all) when slimebags try to slander or demean the kids to score points against the parents.
At the VP debate she can expect from PLUGS some kind of smarmy patronizing dig about neglecting her baby yada yada.
It’s just more of the same (well, nastier than most attacks) but still typical of the worst elements of that side. Beating up on the personal life of the teenage daughter of a female VP candidate will not resonate positively with 90% of the voters. It’s a loser for them, and I think even Obama’s handlers will eventually let that one die.
Palin, during the election, should never, ever respond to the gutter politics the Rats engage in. This is what they are hoping for because it would suggest she is weak and not presidential.
She needs to plug along, keep smiling, and show true grit in the face of adversity. Those are the qualities that will make her the next vice president.
I say let them make all the wild, crazy, psychotic accusations they are capable of making, for the whole world to see who they are. I say we encourage them to show their asses to the world.
For instance, did you know that Sarah Palin took night school classes to learn to program in the "C" language, and was part of a top secret hacking team that changed the Diebold voting machines in Ohio to ensure that Kerry lost? I'll bet you didn't know that, did you? She's been practicing her skills more and more so that we take the next election from Obama, so that there will be rioting in the streets and white people have an excuse to shoot blacks.
I'm going to expose her right here on Free Republic, so that the DUmmies can take it and run with it, and investigate it until they get to the real truth.
Did you also know that Sarah Palin was best friends with one of the flight instructors who taught Mohammed Attah, and knew about the attack plans, but did nothing to stop it?
Rumor also has it that she helped put something in Howard Dean's drink the day he did that unintelligible scream that cost him his candidacy for the Presidency. Also, her hit team put toxic chemicals in Ted Kennedy's scotch to cause himt to get sick.
See how much fun this can be? I sincerely hope DU, DailyKos, and MoveOn.org pick up all of low hanging fruit above, and run with it and investigate it until they get to the truth. Please.
Let the Rats go on about her being a "brainless beauty queen". Then when she kicks Joe Biden's ass so hard his hair plugs shoot out, she will far outdo the expectations of people tuning in to hear her say that she will use her title as Vice President to bring world peace.
I would hope that Palin didn't respond to this nut-job speculation. Let the leftwing-nuts pander on about this. It wouldn't take a rocket scientist, or for that matter a 13 year old with access to the internet, 15 minutes to find evidence to refute this spurious claim.
On the other hand. I fervently hope that this will infiltrate the narative of the far-left wing on the MSM, get voiced over national airwaves and cause such a consternation and backlash from the average American Voter as they finally realize that the national MSM has been lying to us for years and truly are in the pocket of the Dim party bosses.
Just don’t accept their premise. No answer shuts them down as effectively as “I don’t accept your premise unless you prove that its valid”.
She should just stay classy and explain in a very nuanced way how these are attacks on all American’s would would seek office inside the beltway.
Look at her, she is a wonderful woman, she doesn’t need to sling mud, just point out the mud being thrown by the other side.
Any gentleman knows you don’t do that to a woman.
Personally I think she is more capable and eager to deal with this stuff than any of us here on FR and really doesn’t need our advice.
Something tells me she isn’t as ignorant on national and global issues as the masses assume her to be.