The newest on the Palin family....

[gwendolyngrace]

Am I missing something?

So, as I understand it from NPR, there were some speculative rumours about Palin's youngest son not being hers, but her daughter's. So the Republican party announced today that the child can't be the girl's because...she's currently pregnant.

I love the fact that they think they can dispel a rumour that a 16/17-year-old girl was pregnant by telling us all that no, she can't have been...because she is pregnant.

Seriously? How is this a positive spin?

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[grouchyoldcoot.livejournal.com]

I'm glad McCain didn't want the moderate vote, because he sure as hell isn't going to get it.

[flourish.livejournal.com]

I was wondering that myself.

I think the idea is "we're not ashamed of it, we'd always be open about it," but as far as I can tell, this is NOT the way to go about it - they could have just released Palin's hospital records and that would have been the end of that.

[dragovianknight.livejournal.com]

I'm wondering if it's a "she couldn't possibly be this pregnant if she'd just had a baby" thing. I'm too lazy to do the math, though.

[gwendolyngrace.livejournal.com]

No, I get the math. I'm saying that revealing she's pregnant *now* still doesn't improve the damage.

So why do they think that's so much better?

[dragovianknight.livejournal.com]

Well, remember that Palin is anti-birth-control and anti-abortion, and clearly her daughter didn't use either. The abstinence-only crowd will probably cluck their tongues and say, "You poor dear," and then they'll focus on how even though her daughter erred, she still accepted the punishment of getting knocked up made the right choice once she found out she was preggo.

[liamstliam.livejournal.com]

Sacrificed on the altar of Mom's candidacy.

The math is this: The campaign says five months pregnant, which means no.

But if -- and I am not saying this is true -- if they're gonna lie about Palin being the mother of the boy, they're gonna lie about that, too.

[gwendolyngrace.livejournal.com]

Oh, I get the math.

I'm just asking, how is having an unwed 17-year-old pregnant daughter *better*?

[phoenixsong]

Well, there are legal implications to claiming your grandson as your son without going through a formal adoption process.

Plus, there's the rumored details of the end of Palin's last pregnancy: namely that her water broke, she flew to TX to give a speech, flew BACK to Alaska, and then had her husband drive her 30 minutes from home to a hospital to give birth. All this while knowing full well she was carrying a Down's child, who might have special medical needs at birth (which could have been more easily addressed in TX than in AK), and already a high-risk pregnancy due to her age (43, I believe).

So the issues are as follows:

1) She's illegally claiming her grandson is her son without a formal/legal adoption; OR

2) The rumors about the end of her last pregnancy are exaggerated to make her look tougher; OR

3) The rumors about the end of her last pregnancy are accurate, and she unnecessarily risked her son's life/health (and possibly her own) for her political party and/or career.

At least some of the first issue is deflected if you can biologically refute it. But that doesn't check the issues with the latter two points I made, in which case I agree -- and feel bad that Bristol Palin is going to be a big ol' political pawn without her consent. Even if the choice to keep the child is her own, she didn't agree to being in the national spotlight because her mother accepted a VP nomination.

[briony530.livejournal.com]

At least I get one little chuckle for having my "closest I'll ever get to no-lose" election spoiled.