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Well…this is certainly an interesting way to handle a scandal:
Bristol Palin, the 17-year-old daughter of Sarah Palin, is pregnant and will keep the baby and marry the father, a senior aide to Sen. John McCain confirmed to CNN Tuesday.
Republican presidential candidate McCain was aware of Bristol Palin’s pregnancy before he chose her mother for his running mate, the aide said.
“Senator McCain knew this and felt in no way did it disqualify her from being vice president,” said the aide. “Families have difficulties sometimes, and lucky for her she has a supportive family.”
The 17-year-old, a senior in high school, is about five months along, in her second trimester, according to the aide.
The aide said it was decided the campaign would reveal this information now because of rampant Internet rumors that Sarah Palin’s 4-month-old baby, who has Down syndrome, was actually Bristol’s.
Honesty We Can Believe In!
Sadly, this won’t do anything to quiet the attacks on Bristol from the sewers of the left. No matter that the announcement shows the campaign to be honest (rather than secretive and bullying) about private matters, or that the situation the family is in itself illustrates personal responsibility (one of those principles Republicans are supposed to stand for), it’s blood in the water. The imagery experts at Kos and elsewhere who spent the past three days poring over every photo and video of Gov. Palin and her daughter looking for telltale signs of a “baby bump” will regard their efforts as a brilliant success rather than a lucky shot in the dark, and will be emboldened to continue and even expand what they’ve been doing.
Which sucks for the Palin family. And for civil discourse. I can only hope that the silver lining in all of this is that there is so much blowback against the unhinged left that the Democrats are finally forced to marginalize them.
2 responses so far ↓
1 bill-tb // Sep 1, 2008 at 1:42 pm
I remember how well it went for Kerry to bring up Cheney’s daughter’s gayness. Worked well didn’t it.
I think they should use the Chelsea rule, family is off limits.
2 yradmin // Sep 1, 2008 at 3:34 pm
The problem is, it won’t be. I’ve already seen several instances this weekend where the “Chelsea is a dog” and “Janet Reno is Chelsea’s father” remarks (by Limbaugh and McCain, if memory serves) have been trotted out to justify what the left is doing to Bristol Palin.
The thinking behind the tactic here is apparently “it was horrible and inexcusable when you guys did it, but hey, since you did it, we are morally justified in going orders of magnitude further in that direction”. In a way, it’s a form of ’sanction of the victim’ at work here — the left uses the occasional unfortunate or even ugly remark by someone on the right to justify a scorched earth attack, knowing that they can guilt the right into not standing up to the attack. The right actually cares about looking like hypocrites, and that hands the left a powerful weapon.
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