I would like to see Palin run as President instead of McCain in all honesty.
That being said I can't believe all the freepers giving this out of wedlock preganancy a pass. (Oh it's nothing, it's today environment, better than abortion etc etc).
Jeesh folkes what has happened to our countries morals when conservatives are giving a pass just because the candidate is Republican?
Don't give me the crap this has always happened. Yes it has. But I also read my newspaper every week with the birth announcements and in many cases 60-75% are out of wedlock. That was not how it was when I was growing up in the 50's and 60's.
Sad to say if this was a democrat candidate many of the same freepers who are saying it's no big deal would be getting out the torches to burn the candidate. This is the real shame, being partisan over this issue.
Yes having the baby is better than abortion but it should not have happened in the first place.
Palin/McCain 2008
There are very few people giving it a pass. You are reading way too much from them and not the others. The others are saying, yes, we have personal qualms about Palin's daughter, but none about the candidate herself. And we don't think it will affect election results in any significant way.
OTOH, posters such as yourself, whatever your concerns might be, are only fueling the media's claim that this will split conservatives. The media's #1 goal is to keep conservatives home. But real conservatives do not stay home over a pregnancy of teenage daughter when it is handled conservatively.
“Yes having the baby is better than abortion but it should not have happened in the first place.”
Yeah, well it happened. Get over it.
You make some excellent points.
It follows the tend in recent years. Many conservatives who stood with Reagan in the 1980`s and backed Newt and his Contract With America in 1994, have turned out to be something less then conservative these days. Sadly, they've abandoned conservative principles and moved back to a more moderate or even liberal set of politics.
McCain still beats the crap out of Obama and Palin is light years ahead of Biden. But McCain's judgment on this issue is highly questionable and suspect.
Ok, start collecting rocks...we'll stone her to death. We'll show her our righteous indignation!
...but it should not have happened in the first place.
Well duh! Neither should house fires...but they do.
“Jeesh folkes what has happened to our countries morals when conservatives are giving a pass just because the candidate is Republican?”
First off, there’s enough judgmentality already from the giddy left. I don’t want to see a hen pecking party.
Secondly, they are getting married.
And there’s something else:
What has happened is that life begins when the mother wills it, ever since Roe. Those justices dragged down the bar, not us. Remember the law passed to help prevent abortions in the military? Congress members felt good about preventing abortions through not punishing women in uniform who became pregnant. This is the reality of our new and ‘improved’ culture.
So yes, I’ll honor any mother who keeps her baby.
But I also read my newspaper every week with the birth announcements and in many cases 60-75% are out of wedlock.
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Yep. Well McCain is for sure planning a CounterAttack which may include those very stats. You watch.
I wish it had been done differently, but there are lots of ways to skin a cat and this time we will see how McCain does it.