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BREAKING: PALIN ADMITS HER 17-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER IS PREGNANT.
The New York Post ^ | 9-1-08

Posted on 09/01/2008 9:05:11 AM PDT by WackySam

ST. PAUL -- The 17-year-old daughter of Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin is pregnant, Palin said on Monday in an announcement intended to knock down rumors by liberal bloggers that Palin faked her own pregnancy to cover up for her child.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Alaska
KEYWORDS: 2008veep; 2008vp; babygate; bristol; congratulations; gop2008; honesty; mccainpalin; palin; palinattacks; palinfamily; ridinghighhorses; rncc; sarahpalin; sexisfun; straighttalk
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To: hsrazorback1
Rounding up blog reactions!
641 posted on 09/01/2008 10:14:25 AM PDT by Jay777 (My personal blog: www.stoptheaclu.com)
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To: xzins; Umanbean; PhilosopherStones; pissant; P-Marlowe; enat; narses; Salvation
This is probably the most important moment of the entire pro-life movement. This is what it’s all been about.

Yes it it, it's easy to be pro-life when there aren't any unplanned pregnancies, but it's times like these when we see what a person is really made of.

642 posted on 09/01/2008 10:14:32 AM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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To: COBOL2Java

You do realize that is a photoshopped picture, right?


643 posted on 09/01/2008 10:14:31 AM PDT by hattend (Obama is a lying idiot. We're so screwed. - Rush Limbaugh)
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To: Reagan Man

Anyone who refuses to vote for McCain-Palin because of this story is not someone whose vote we should want. Let them go vote for Obama, the baby-killer, who boasts that he would abort his own grandchildren in order to keep his daughters from being “punished by a by a baby.”

Personally, I think Sarah Palin comes out of this looking better than ever. If one of your children gets in trouble, you help them out of it, you don’t jump in and make the sin worse by killing your grandchild or shipping your daughter out of the country like bill clinton did with the mother of his love child.

Help your children get back on their feet and straighten out their lives, don’t “fix” it by killing your grandchildren. That’s how the Kennedys and the Obamas and the Bidens handle these “problems.”

The only people who come out of this really looking bad are the presstitutes, the Democrats, and the idiots who go along with their story.


644 posted on 09/01/2008 10:15:01 AM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Reagan Man

You don’t know Reagan.


645 posted on 09/01/2008 10:15:01 AM PDT by ican'tbelieveit ((Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team# 36120), KW:Folding))
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To: MinuteGal
This is how the Left will spin this.....that Sarah was too involved in politics to raise her daughter properly and attentively, that she still has fledgelings at home that should prompt her to be a stay-at-home mom, that a special needs baby needs a mother who isn't jetting around the country and the world as veep, that her "family values" persona is a sham, that.......

Don't knock me, the messenger. We know how the Left works. It will work to confuse and mislead and confuse the voters and demoralize the GOP supporters despite all explanations and protestations...which it will ignore.

This is not good given the stupidity and/or the exagerrated/hypocritical morality of countless voters.....and the ravening media.

I agree that this is how they will spin it. And it will affect how Palin is viewed among the far left and perhaps among some few on the social conservative right--those who tend toward self-righteousness.

But for the vast majority of the conservative base, toward whom the Palin pick was directed, I think it will arouse sympathy. It is true that children of parents living intense public lives suffer from their parents' choices. If this were 40 years ago, there'd be less sympathy for the Palins. But after 40 years of relentless feminist screaming about the wonderfulness of career women, there's an awful lot of women out there who have discovered on their own how hard it is to raise children well under these circumstances. As others have pointed out, even if one does everything right, the children are free agents and boys got girls pregnant even when most women stayed at home.

Moderate center-left women who have bought into the feminist dream in moderate ways will actually probably respect and sympathize with Sarah Palin more than they otherwise might have. Conservative women, anyone with common sense who has children of this age or even those who don't but can empathize, will think, "there but for the grace of God, go I" (or some secular version of that).

Only the extremist pro-aborts or birth-control fanatics will try to use this to discredit Palin, and because most men and women in the broad middle who are raising children or have raised children or hope to raise children, even unmarried 20- and 30-somethings, can understand how this could happen to them, because of that, I think they will see Sarah Palin no longer as WonderWoman (she was in danger of becoming that, among the conservative base) but as the Mom-next-door who has, despite her failings, done truly Remarkable Things.

I feel very sorry for Bristol Palin but wish her and her fiance the best. Most of America will, I think, think something along these lines.

646 posted on 09/01/2008 10:15:06 AM PDT by Houghton M.
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To: Sir Beowolf
Congratulation! Sarah and Todd and Bristol, Lets have the baby shower in the Rose Garden.

Perhaps you were jesting? If you are serious, I have to disagree. This is not something to celebrate. The child is being welcomed, as he or she should be welcomed. The mother and father are stepping up and taking responsibility. But what they did was not good, not for them, not for the baby, not for their parents, not for society. The Palins are reacting to it well, but to call for celebration of a sad mistake would be hypocritical coming from those who say that sex outside marriage is wrong.

Let's use some common sense here, unlike the Kos-Libs.

647 posted on 09/01/2008 10:15:15 AM PDT by Houghton M.
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To: WackySam

If Bush and Cheney got elected with Cheney’s daughter being a lesbian, I doubt this pregnancy will make much of an impact with voters.


648 posted on 09/01/2008 10:15:22 AM PDT by Proudcongal
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To: libh8er

You’ve been here less than a year - how would you know “how we are?”


649 posted on 09/01/2008 10:15:28 AM PDT by mabelkitty
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To: RockinRight
Get ready for President Obama. Practice your “Heil Obama” salute now.

To be blunt, if you give up that easily, we don't need you on our side.

This will be a non issue. I challenge you to find a family anywhere that has not had to deal with something similar in their extended family.

Additionally, this will backfire on the libs with the swing voters if they push it too hard.

650 posted on 09/01/2008 10:15:39 AM PDT by Jotmo (I Had a Bad Experience With the CIA and Now I'm Gonna Show You My Feminine Side - Swirling Eddies)
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To: longtermmemmory

I’m sure if we were to send things to the Alaska governor’s office or mansion they would be forwarded on to Bristol.

Alaska Governor’s Office
550 W 7th Ave # 1700
Anchorage, AK 99501
(907) 269-7450

Governor’s Mansion
716 Calhoun Av.
Juneau, Alaska
99801-1617


651 posted on 09/01/2008 10:15:39 AM PDT by retrokitten
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To: popdonnelly

“That statement is idiotic and offensive.”

That’s the point I was trying to get across... ;0)


652 posted on 09/01/2008 10:15:45 AM PDT by DrewsMum (Proud member of the Grand OIL Party!)
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To: JavaJumpy
oh, for Pete’s sake. Even Reagan wasn’t perfect in his personal life, but people admire his political ability.

As a matter of fact, wasn't Nancy Reagan preggers with Patty when she married Ronald Reagan?

653 posted on 09/01/2008 10:16:13 AM PDT by onemiddleamerican
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To: RedMonqey

I doubt they will be asking any abortion questions during the VP debate now. They know Sarah will have American in tears over her wonderful answer.


654 posted on 09/01/2008 10:16:25 AM PDT by gswilder
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To: nobama08
True, but 30 year olds have no excuse.

I know. One would think they would be smarter than a 17 year old. But many are not.

655 posted on 09/01/2008 10:16:29 AM PDT by syriacus (It's "Can-Do Sarie" versus "Can-Schmooze Barry")
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To: KayEyeDoubleDee

You think it’s a GOOD thing that underage kids are having children outside of wedlock?


656 posted on 09/01/2008 10:16:31 AM PDT by RunningForCover
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To: Reagan Man
Conservatives have made family values an issue. This doesn’t help matters.

How can you have "family values" if you don't have a family in the first place?

657 posted on 09/01/2008 10:16:44 AM PDT by KayEyeDoubleDee (const Tag &referenceToConstTag)
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To: wagglebee; P-Marlowe; enat; narses; Salvation; big'ol_freeper; omega4179; reagandemocrat; ...
This is a PRIVATE family matter, if the left thinks that a president screwing interns and LYING about it under oath is private then surely this is.

This is a HUGE moment in pro-life history.

To reuse a recent line, this thread will separate the pro-life walkers from the pro-life talkers.

658 posted on 09/01/2008 10:17:03 AM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain -- Those denying the War was Necessary Do NOT Support the Troops!)
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To: 668 - Neighbor of the Beast

Well said.


659 posted on 09/01/2008 10:17:13 AM PDT by NonValueAdded ("John McCain has a birthday but he gives US the present.")
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To: WackySam
In an extreme environment like Alaska it is normal to start reproducing early. That's the basic instinct of survival.
660 posted on 09/01/2008 10:17:16 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper (Sarah Palin 08 12 16 20)
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