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I could care less about what those mouth-breathers think!!

"When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross." - Sinclair Lewis

I do not believe for a moment that the "religious right" is excited about this news. The talking heads are spinning and lying and the media is complicit. They'll lie about anything and say anything to keep this election "looking" close so that they can pull the same trick with the Diebold voting machines.
This is surreal...welcome to the united fascist states of america.. orwell foretold of this day... fascism is here and it's wrapped in a flag and carrying a cross just the way sinclair lewis said it would.
Good grief.

So now the fact that she's keeping the baby – as a 17-year old high school student – overrides the fact that she got pregnant as a 17-year old high school student?

So let me get it straight:

1. You're not supposed to have sex before marriage, and will only be taught this fact and not any way to prevent pregnancy (thus, abstinence only sexual education)

2. If you do have sex and get pregnant at the age of 17, it's only a bad thing if you have an abortion; if you choose to keep a baby you may not be prepared mentally, emotionally or financially to raise, you become a sort of hero?

These people are absolutely sick

I am honestly outraged by the response from the Republicans not only about the teenage pregnancy but mostly about the fact that NONE and I mean NONE acknowledges that something is wrong. They come across as though they embrace teenage pregnancy and that's wrong. Yeah show love and be acceptance of her and all that but don't come on TV and tell young kids go on get pregnant and you will be loved. The least they can do is to admit to the youth that it happened out of lack of responsibility and shouldn't have happened. It is ridiculous. “Yes We Can”!!!! “Yes We Can”!!!!

dont be too fast to judge, only god can... pay attention to her accomplishments and how they better serve the citizens, that's what she's paid to do, she's not anyone's preacher

All,

Lets face it if this was BO who had a 17-year-old daughter soon to have a baby the press would be having a field day and kill any chance at be president.

She still needs to be vetted like HC / BO were by the press.

Despite the fact I know very little about her and that I can't understand her selection as Vice-President, I will keep Mrs. Palin and her family in my prayers during this difficult time. I honestly think that her family should be her first priority right now, not carrying water for the likes of John McCain, who promises more of the same for the American people.

Oh yeah–hey Palin, global warming is real. Even our current embarrasment in chief believes that. We're facing a global crisis, and you deny it exists.

Hypocracy at it's most galling. How quickly some in this movement sell out their convictions when it's one of their own.

It's great that she appears to live according to her values. In no way does this make her suitable for the vice presidency. Or the presidency.

Apparently teen pregnancy is ok so long as you marry the father. What a bunch of hypocrites. You can't have it both ways.

Your kidding right? Does anyone in their right mind believe a 17 year old should be having a baby?

Everyone in the room should be dizzy with all the spin on this story!

The real issue is unprotected sex which can and is one of the causes of AIDS around the world where children become victims of aids as a result. So stop trying to paint a pretty picture that is no cure for AIDS when children take risk of unprotected sex. THIS KIND OF PRAISE SENDS THE WRONG MESSAGE TO ARE YOUTH, REMEMBER PARIS HILTON.

it is truly sick that they are praising a seventeen year for being pregnant

Hypocrites, always talking out of both sides of their mouths. Any other 16 year old and they're "loose and moraly corrupt". Now that's it is one of their own she's "brave and a hero". Gimme a break. These people make me sick.

Sad day in America when we start to support teenage pregnancy.

everyone keeps saying their happy that she is "choosing" the child..well that CHOICE is one that she would take away from women all over the country, regardless if they were impregnated by a boyfriend, brother, or rapist....

I thought the Republicans always tout "family first, family values", how can Mrs. Palin not put her children first. She has a new baby with special needs and he will need his mother more than ever and now a teenager who is pregnant and only 17 years old. Mrs. Palin should be their mother first and help her own children first. Instead she will be too busy being the Vice Presidental nominee. This sad for her children.

Psa 26:4 I did not sit with liars, and I will not be found among hypocrites.

These so called evangelicals who are really political cronies hiding behind the cloth love the Republican Party more than they love God. They don't have any family values. But we all know if that were Michelle Obama's or Hillary Clinton's pregnant teenage daughter Tony Perkins and others would be pointing a finger at them and saying what a poor example they are setting. They would be raking these mothers across the hotest of coals.

As a born again, bible-toting Christian, I'm offended by these hypocrites.

Maybe if she embraced sex education, the daughter wouldn't be in this predicament. No one is ready for parenthood, and especially marriage, at 17. Do they realize that single parent households are worse for children than two parent households? Check the research.
Time for us to give the evangelical-right-wing hypocrites some of their own medicine. They should practice what they preach.

This reaction from the evangelical peanut gallery really should come as no surprise. It seems that premarital relations are a much bigger deal in this coterie if they involve participants of the same sex or birth control. As long as a shotgun wedding ensues and there is no hint that any parties involved consider abortion, (political) absolution is all but guaranteed.

THATS LIFE .ITS NOT LIKE SHE IS THE ONLY YOUNG GIRL THATS BEEN PREGNANT IN THE WORLD. ITS JUST THE HATERS HAVE NOTHING BETTER TO DO.THE MEDIA AND O.B.'S YOUNG SUPPORTERS ALL SHOULD GROW UP.IAM SURE PALINS DAUGHTER IS MORE MATURE JUST BY ALL THE HATE COMMENTS THAT ARE LEFT BY MORONS. KEEP HATING YOU O.B. SUPPORTERS.YOUR THE ONES THAT ARE GOING TO LEAD TO O.B.'S DEFEAT IN NOV.IF IT ISN'T CLINTONS SUPPORTERS ,HER AND HER FAMILY ITS PALIN ,MCCAIN AND THEIR FAMILIES. GET A LIFE LOOSERS. AMERICA GETS WHAT THEY DESERVE ,IF THE FUTURE IS HATERS LIKE YOU O.B. SUPPORTERS.

I am more excited about Sarah Palin than I was before.

This shows she is in-touch with her kids enough, enough that they follow her values.

What the heck is wrong with evangelicals and conservatives? What is the conservative stance and evangelical value and ideology? It is gracious of Senator Obama to consider Palin's daughter's pregnancy a private family matter, but hey, we can not shut our mouths, especially after so much has been meted out against Senator Obama. Don't you see this girl committed fornication and you know what the Bible says about it. It is a shame, folks. What did conservative, family value oriented Pali teach her daughter about pre-marital sex and morality? You don't get it, evangelicals and conservatives, you really don't.

Do you really think she has a choice? Her mother is pro-abortion.She probably don't have a choice about marriage neither. I feel so sorry for her children. Do she just care about votes? i hope not. This affect everyone in the United States.

of course they are going to still back her. All they care about is someone is as far right as themselves get elected. So sad.

As far as her daughter goes, she has a child. Who knows what kind of daughter she is but Palin probably should have mentioned something earlier before it get out or Senator McCain for that matter if he knew. As far as I'm concerned, I ain't gonna get into an argument that I don't even know about personally, but most likely I don't wanna know about since I found out. Just because they rallied around her just because she kept it, even though we don't know what the heck is this family about, it just shows me that nothings change. She's a woman who can take the job at any instant moment, the least we can find out if we can see her integrity...or let alone I don't know even know what.

Remember people, Bristol has that choice currently... If we elect McCain and Palin, she will no longer have that CHOICE....

Roe vs Wade people, Roe Vs Wade....

Obama/Biden 08!! 12!!!

Hillary 16!! 20!!

Palin should be taking care of her children instead of running for VP. Her daughter's pregnancy at 17 proves the imbecility of "abstinence" for sex education. For all her conservative values Palin is appaling,

They don't have any choice but to support this. They were jumping for joy when her candidacy was announced so it won't do to abandon her now.

Family values?

What a joke! Can you imagine how those evangelicals would be ripping apart Barak Obama for being a "godless liberal" if it were HIS daughter that was pregnant? And while I agree that this is mostly an issue for Palin and her family, it does have some legitimacy (no pun intended) as an issue in the election because of her support for abstinence-only sex education and her views on reproductive rights.

Even Glenn Beck? Because I remember Glenn ripping into Jamie Lynn Spears for being an unwed pregnant teen. Glenn was down right nasty about it.

Abstinence obviously does not work, even in the best of homes with the strongest of Evangelical Christian values. How about finally dealing with the problem of teenage pregnancy with some sex education and free access to birth control? Perhaps then we would not need the option of abortion?

I cannot believe how biased that horrible Campbell Brown is being in her attack on Sarah Palin right now. I don't expect her to be fair, but is it really necessary for her to make personal attacks? If it's ok to attack Sarah Palin for being a bad mother for (1) letting her 17 year old daughter get pregnant; and (2) having a baby that she knew had Down's Syndrome, then why can't she throw a punch at Barack Obama for letting his brother live on $1 a month. LEAVE THE FAMILIES OUT OF IT.

Did she follow her parents role model by getting pregnant out of wedlock? I guess teaching her abstance did not work. And this is someone we want leading the country. Just teach abstinance in this day and age is a joke!

HYPOCRACY. Teenage pregnancy is NOT okay.

really I thought Evangelicals disapprove having sex and especially getting pregnant before marriage!

"We are over the moon"! Wow, somebody should tell the evangelicals that it wasn't an immaculate conception!

And this is EXACTLY why I don't vote for the flat-earth, creationist-teaching, anti-science, anti-education hypocrite party!

THANK YOU, PERKINS, FOR REMINDING ME!!

I guess now we know why no one knew of Sarah Palin. McCain wants her on the ticket to win the vote of socially conservative, pro-lifers. It is typical of republican tactics. Am I cynical? Would you put it past them?

OF COURSE Sarah Palin was vetted on this. The "Mc Campaign" saw this golden opportunity, knowing that the media would devour it and make her in to a issue. What family hasn't been faced with teenage pregnancy? But not all of them abort. Let the pro-lifers rejoice!

Sounds a lot like a Karl Rove tactic to me.

By the way, at its core, this is a women's issue. Suddenly and suspiciously there are only women pundits popping up everywhere in support for McCain. Are we that stupid?

Oh christ. Someone hand the fundamentalists a mirror. Premarital sex is okay now?

Hypocrites galore.

Preaching one thing and doing another? Hypocracy!? No way!