This is more fuel for my conspiracy theory fire, posted here.
“Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin announced moments ago that her 17-year-old daughter, Bristol, is five months pregnant and is planning to keep the baby and marry the father … According to Reuters, McCain campaign officials knew about Bristol's pregnancy during the vetting process … “
Um, from the school of “What the Hell was McCain Thinking?”
Being a good liberal/libertarian and Democrat, I normally could care less about a knocked up teenager’s affect on the political process. But this is the daughter of the VP nominee of a party that thinks abstinence-only sex education is the way and the cure and the light of teenage pregnancy. And spends lots and lots of money on it. And this same VP nominee is personally a proponent of that policy and a fundamentalist Christian to boot. So what happened? And why on earth, since McCain did know about it, would he pick Palin as his nominee knowing that this would come out and be a news item no matter what. Why would a campaign do that?
Unless they were throwing the election? Unless they wanted the focus to be less on her qualifications and more on her qualities as a mother, a “bad” one by all the beliefs she herself holds?
This just gets weirder and weirder.
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