I can’t wait to see the video footage from the girl’s “purity ball”.

Timing is everything. I mean, surely Sarah didn’t know this surprise until today, right? She wouldn’t have forgotten to mention this little detail to John last Thursday, right? Daughter Bristol, who supposedly is FIVE MONTHS PREGNANT, wouldn’t have been planning a 7th Month surprise announvcement like Mom…and decided not to tell her of the blessing until after the annoucement, right?

You couldn’t write a sitcom this bizarre. The ‘mom-having-daughter’s baby’ rumor was bizarre, but now I’ll be interested in knowing the real birthdate…will it be Jan. 1st or March 1st? In the meantime, we can question Sarah Palin’s judgment when she decided to take an 11 hour flight back to Alaska…risking her son, her life, and the passengers who were on the plane by not having the baby in Houston.

Heck of a VP pick McCainy!

Silly me — I didn’t think the rethugs could find anyone to top Mitt and the boys, but hereeeeeeeeeee’s the Palins!

Gawd giveths and Gawd takes away — then he giveths again.

This is gonna be a little vacay for tbogg. He can cover this bunch without breakin’ a sweat.

The family’s statement said “We are proud of Bristol’s decision to have the baby.”

Wait. She decided? Really? I thought they were against a woman having a choice, or is that only other people’s daughters?

Great catch….yes, that point needs to be amped, big time. Her daughter had the choice of continuing with this pregnancy (maybe – I can imagine that Mom and Dad probably helped her make that decision); but if her parents and the Republican Party of Religious Zealots have their way, our daughters won’t be having that option.

What’s all the fuss about? This is just the Republican way of celebrating Labor Day.

I think this is child number two. There is no way I buy five months off that coincides with the birth of her “Chinatown” brother/son. I may have been easy on them with the trailer park tag. This is getting Appalachian.

Wow. Anyone else think the original “plan” was for Bristol to shortly either A) to suddenly contract quarantine only tuberculosis or B) go live up north with Santa, to learn about toy making—and then return (on Santa’s sleigh, natch!) coincindentally with her new “orphaned, distant cousin” or maybe Grandma Heath’s miracle baby?

Hmm Mmm. That abstinence-only sure does work, huh?

Excellent. Option B was foiled, though, by the melting of the North Pole.

Shorter McCain campaign: Sure we knew Palin’s daughter was pregnant. What do you think we are, idiots?

OMG. The McCain campaign has magically transformed into a soap opera. I think I my need to stock up on popcorn and get out my score card so I can keep up with all the new revelations.

What next?

Why haven’t we heard anything from Gomer? he’s a Minnesotan isn’t he? Did he get pepper sprayed by those protectors of the Constitution? Did Gustav knock over his grill again?

Also, Pammy-painted-eyebrows is righteously pissed that the party bosses don’t really take her seriously. She couldn’t find blogger’s row, like the one she saw when the enemy (that’s a quote) held their convention, and she was forced to sit on the floor. Also, she has some wonderful photos of the right bloggers’ leading lights.

As for the Palin kid, attack McCain and his desperation and Mom for her lack of candor, but hell, leave the kid alone.

DrDick, ya know if this WERE on a sudser/Lifetime movie—I’d snicker away over how completely unrealistic it was. If I were a network drama, I’d be plenty pissed—who’s gonna watch Gossip Girl or the new 90210 with THIS on the news?

TBogg –

I agree with Humboltblue – (a great cheese!) – pls leave the kid alone.

Obama’s reaction is appropriate AND getting good press, BTW – for example
http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com…..1281.aspx.

(I need linky lessons, clearly. I am not aware of all internet traditions…)

Damn the intertubes – just go to msnbc and look at first read – I am less aware of internet traditions by the minute.

TBogg, I came to you for guidance on this issue, knowing of your being the father of an L&T and all.

It is not picking on the kid to out the candidate for the Vice President of the United States of America as the most audacious hypocrite EVAH!!!

Dr. Dobson, how’s that vetting thing going for you?

The movie is going to be great. Oh, and here’s a pretty hilarious video –

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEW12XLUM7A

I think we all sympathize with Bristol Palin. I believe, at least for most of us, the focus is on the incompetence of the McCain camp for letting this tidbit slip by what was assuredly a rigorous vetting process.

They are saying they knew about it. That puts my bullshit meter into the red, tho.

Magically transformed? It’s been freakshow central (no offense to freaks) since he declared. I’ve already popped an entire field of corn. What ever happened to Vicki Iseman anyway?

Of course, like the CBN article Tbogg linked up, written by Press the Meat regular among others David Brody, the BigMedia will spin absolutely anything…ANYTHING…as a positive for the Repubes and negative for Obama.

Rove has gotten so much credit over the years, but really, considering all the built-in advantages Repubes have in our system, it would be difficult to fail as a GOP (Got Our’s, Piss-off) campaign manager.

Commodities brokers forsee a popcorn shortage for the next two months. Investors are advised to start stocking up now. Movie theater concession stands are expected to install gas station-style signage to allow for frequent price updates.

Have at it, TBogg.

These people want to invade my kids’ public school and teach them “abstinence.” They want to outlaw contraception and abortion, thereby producing loss of life, suffering and tragedy in untold numbers. How many pregnant teenage girls have a wealthy and powerful family behind them to cushion their way?

Nothing against the kid or her boyfriend, but Hockey Mom and her ilk have ZERO respect for the privacy of my family or anyone else’s — so hers is fair fucking game.

@ fauxmaxbaer -

I agree about the non-vetting process and the BS meter reading. I don’t think, for example, that they envisioned that Palin was an Alaskan separatist/sympathizer (as the GOS has noted). THAT is relevant to Palin’s fitness for duty. A Copperhead within one heartbeat of the Presidency? Country First – but WHICH country?

There is just no point – vetting or not – in harping on a teenager’s pregnancy. It’s easy to take shots at abstinence-only education etc.
Teenage daughters get pregnant regardless of education/parental POV. Palin appears to be supporting her daughter, just as she should – not casting her out the door for betraying Fundy principles. She is eminently vulnerable on lots of other topics. Let’s stick to those.

I’ll respect her family’s privacy when she gets her judgmental, moralistic fundamentalist christian nose out of *my* family’s personal decisions.

Better start cleanin out the tubes so I can siphon out the liquified butter. That damn “gasolina” smell is a bitch to git rid of…

I am Sarah Palin’s future son-in-law…No wait, we’re all Georgians. I am a Georgian.

That was last week. This week we are all Cajun/Alaskans. Try to keep up.

Two points:
1) I think Gomer is from one of the Dakotas, not Minnesota. He’s not ours.
2) TBogg, ‘in the back of a snowmobile’ makes about as much sense as in the back of a motorcycle. You’d have to do it ON the snowmobile.
There, I feel better now.
…three! three points…
3) The Ramsey County sheriff is a paranoid douchebag.

Life among the fundies and rednecks (I grew up among them) puts the imaginations of TV and movie scriptwriters to shame. You just cannot make this stuff up.

Yes, but now it has actual sex and consequences and milfs, and all the other salacious bits that everyone looks for in soaps.

Copperhead? I am stunned at the word being used in describing a candidate. It just doesn’t get much better than this. I checked a few troll caves, the cockiness is gone. Imagine that….

I echo the sentiments to lay off the kid–teenagers are teenagers, and she will have a hard enough time being a mother and shoved into marriage at 17.

As for her mother, however, she intentionally dragged her family into the spotlight, knowing that this was all going to land on her daughter. I guess the right-wing cred of a teenage mom keeping her baby outweighed any concern for her daughter’s privacy. It would be interesting to know the thoughts on this matter of that Dobson Politburo that approved Sarah last week.

Amen. I’m going copy and save that one for my replies to my Repug relatives’ emails.

Here are three positive things you can say about Ms. Palin. http://www.tagg-lines.com/2008…..-miss.html

Hey. I’m from San Diego. We don’t know snowmobiles from…snow.

@ moondancer @ 31 -

I do think we need to go there. I grew up in Canada – I’m well aware of separatism – and QC probably has much better historical grounds for same than AK – not that I agree that it’s best for them but QC is definitely a nation with hundreds of years of its own identity. I have no objection whatever to her believing in an independent Alaska – but why then is she standing for VP of the USA? What does it say about James Dobson and his clique that they chose her – did they know about this or not? If they did, why are they pushing her? Do they think that loyalty to the USA is optional if you have suitable RW credentials? If not, do they know what the hell they are doing?

Either A) John McCain’s vetting of Sarah Palin consisted of a thumbs up from Dobson or B) He decided after finding out that Bristol was preggers that it was perfectly fine to subject a 17 year old soon to be mother to national press scrutiny.

While the delicious details of “the Valley” of Alaska (Rednecks of the Northern Lights) are amusing, I think the story is that McCain looks like he’ll govern the same way he plays craps.

In case anybody missed it, Palin lawyered up on the abuse of power deal.

Where is the picture of fuck-face-Billy-Kristol getting his pie today? The title of his monday column is ‘A Star Is Born?’. Guess who he’s talking about….

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09…..ol.html?hp

I wonder WHEN the daughter told them she was pregnant. I thought most women would know if their daughter were five months along.
Has anyone asked the boyfriend about the marriage plans?
Does he want to marry, or is he being forced into it?
What kind of life will the new parents have if they were forced to marry?
What will the child think when it grows up and finds out about it’s parents?
Will they have DNA tests or are they just assuming that the boyfriend “did it”?

These questions have to be asked.

Inquiring minds want to know.

I got nothing

David E has got the real scoop at http://www.Ehrensteinland.com Bristol is not currently preggers. She was preggers b4 and she is the mother of Trig.

As far as picking on the kids, don’t do it. Instead, Focus On The Family.

This is looking like a giant Karl Rove moment.

OK – Religious Right assholes pick Sarah. Of course, they neglect to look roo deeply. But, Dobson and friends can now endorse McCain without looking like the totak tools that they are.

Act 2 – Sara withdraws for family reasons. Some other shithead takes her place, The endorsements by the religion freaks are neven withdrawn.

Act 3 = Profit!!!!

Hey, Mrs. TBogg & TBogg – Happy L&T Casey’s Birthday! That was very well done, particularly in the face of this really nutty behaviour from the Great Frozen North. (Not, I point out, from Grandmother Country – we have our own nuttiness, but with universal health insurance coverage most of it doesn’t resolve so horribly.)

And here in Phoenix, you’ll be relieved to know, we got past the massive storms that took out the Metro Phoenix area for nearly four days (where was our Senior Senator, btw? We had 100mph too!) and today was just as lovely as could be asked for. You’ll find that the temperature when you visit is mild and the people not at all as hostile as we are normally at the end of the monsoon/summer season. We probably won’t even make a fuss about people who conceal carry!

I’m fading all action on Miss Alaska First NOT running with John McCain ‘08.

They seemed to have overlooked Gov. Palin’s Alaska Independence hat.

That’s right, horde those laughable McCain/Palin buttons (as if!)

All bets in bushels of popcorn…Palin won’t be the Gooper-Veep!

If she is dropped McCain can go home and watch the deer and the antelope play.

In a moment of paranoia, it occurred to me that this is all a setup. They knew all this stuff, but are letting it come out so Palin can make a dramatic withdrawal from the race Wednesday…

[a]nd Johnny will rise gallantly to his feet and lift [his campaign’s wreckage] in his arms, stand in front of the microphones and begin to speak. The speech is short. But it’s the most rousing speech I’ve ever read. It’s been worked on, here and in [Colorado Springs], on and off, for over eight years. I shall force someone to take the [keys to the car] away from him and Johnny will really hit those microphones and those cameras with [egg] all over [his face], fighting off anyone who tries to help him, defending America even if it means his own death, rallying a nation of television viewers to hysteria, to sweep [him and Lieberman] up into the White House with powers that will make martial law seem like anarchy!

And he really will be the Manchurian Candidate…scary, eh, kids?

so will they use a helicopter at the shotgun wedding?

Do they think that loyalty to the USA is optional if you have suitable RW credentials?

If you have to ask that question, you have not been paying attention to the past 8 years.

I gotta say, your email must be a hoot.

They would do it.

Like my cat on roasted chicken.

I had leftovers.

Until the cat smelled the leftovers.

Found her eating my chicken.

On my countertop.

Republicans would have now won the election due to the fact that they eat when they smell.

Now, they’re eating their own.

Of course, Palin is an anagram of lapin…

The family’s statement actually said she had decided to “keep” the baby, not “have” it. I seriously doubt she was given any choice about that. This is totally in keeping with the fundie perspective on life. It’s important to protect and nurture it in the womb. After that, who cares?