Kabumpo:
Yes, it was COMPLETELY manufactured. That you don’t see that I believe is no accident. That a teenage girl got knocked up by a douchebag boyfriend (and thank heavens she did NOT marry the opportunistic asshole) is somehow a singular disqualifier is patently ludicrous.
Joe Biden’s daughter is a serious drug addict and has been arrested, why has that not been a “disqualifier” ?
Al Gore’s son is a menace on the road and has been cited and arrested for reckless driving (including during the time he was running for President), why is that not a disqualifier ?
I can cite more examples of REAL serious situations involving family members of politicians, ones involving the law, but Palin’s daughter having sex is the ultimate “baggage” that must forever disqualify her from running for any office ? Sorry, fella, but you and your concern is a bucketload of horse manure.
There IS no such thing as an unblemished candidate. None. I also already corrected you that we could run the Son of God, and he would have baggage manufactured by the Democrat Media Hate Machine. Curious you don’t address that, or perhaps not so curious.
I also invited you to cite examples of candidates you’d like to see run, and you also didn’t come up with a single name.
The conclusion drawn regarding your presence here is that of a classic concern troll. Nothing more, nothing less. I think you can spare us your indignant displays lamenting our lack of intellectual curiosity when your agenda is so obvious. And I also issued you no threat, it’s the same admonition I give to those intending to sow dissension and misinformation on this website, behavior for which you have demonstrated egregious guilt in that regard.
Don’t you see that you are making my point for me? Of course it was manufactured - given that we gave them some hot stuff to run with - On the Dems’ side, the kids can be criminals. On our side, not. That’s the way it is because they own the media.
Now imagine the McCain/Palin campaign if her daughter had been an ordinary, nice girl studying architecture at MIT, or at Yale studying English literature. Or in medical school. Or had started her own cookie business and was doing well with it. Imagine it. Whole different picture, isn’t it? No cheesy headlines, no ugly jokes, not one drop of anything to distract from the message.
Because that story made a lot of noise for a long time.
I would have died before I put my family in a position to be a target of that kind of ridicule and abuse, and I would never have chosen a candidate with that kind of situation - it was a public relations disaster and had a big negative effect on the campaign.