I've read a LOT of tripe in my life, but this ranks up there with the worst.

Let's face it, you are ate up with PDS and typical liberal hate. It's all you got.

Your writing sucks so bad it's pathetic. Especially how you keep building up strawmen like “the far right fundamentalist base”. Are you really THAT stupid?

It's obvious that you know absolutely NOTHING about Sarah Palin, her base of supporters, or how she governs. Nope, you are just a typical dumb liberal blogger who gets her talking points from the DNC, and runs with it.

Pathetic.

There is NOTHING in Governor Palin's record that even remotely suggests that she governs as anything but a strict constitutionalist, and a pragmatic leader. I've been watching her for a long time, and while any leader is driven by their convictions, there is no record of her putting her convictions over the Constitution of Alaska.

As for the kids, why is it only Republican children are fair game? And why is it only bad when a Republican proudly involves their family?

What about Barack Obama? He “paraded” his kids around! Using your pretzel logic and sick mind, tell me what HE was trying to achieve? What was HIS motive?

Of course, only liberals think this way.

I look at Obama (a man I cannot stomach) with his kids, and see a family, nothing more.

But you liberal twits see Governor Palin and her big beautiful family, and start assigning motives. And you wonder why people hate liberals so much. (which is why you have to hide as a “moderate”)

It's obvious that Bristol Palin made a big mistake hooking up with this kid. She's not the first, won't be the last. But what this kid is doing, trying to cash in at the expense of the Governor, and her family is despicable.

Instead of trashing Palin, you should be aiming your arrows at this kid who thinks it's alright to kiss and tell. For a fee!

Just pathetic, sad, and lazy writing. A complete waste of bandwidth.

It is simple Lit. Conservatives must die. That is what the democrats are attempting to do now. Drive the stake into our hearts by painting us with lie after lie after lie. But then we deserve it because we all know we are hitler loving, Gun Toting, War mongering rich people who have gainned our conservative roots on the backs of slave labor.

We are pond scum. Thank you for pointing that out to us.

It's just so funny that people (including liberals) automatically assume the worst of our government the instant the opposition party takes over. Does every police officer, FBI agent, and military officer suddenly switch allegiances from Democrat to Republican and back again? Maybe this assumption is a side effect of the Imperial Presidency and a natural fear of the grotesque amount of power ANY President wields.

The swarmy journalists have touted this info as an indicator that Governor Palin is somehow a bad mother. Once the deed had been done, with an engagement announced, it is not within the realm of what we, as mothers would want but it is beyond a mother's control.

There is a real question of how an unemployed child, his sister and his mother could afford to fly for all of the 'tell all' sessions. With felony counts against Mrs. Johnston and the new info she has hired a new attorney, one must wonder where all the money IS coming from?

Kudos to you for this, Christine.

But let's see these endless Palin family posts for what they are. There is nothing the left loves more than knocking a Christian conservative (I am not Christian if that matters) off their pedestal and portraying them as hypocrites, even if it means dragging babies, children and families into it. This is tabloid stuff, not news. It only perpetuates the partisan tone that has replaced political discussion.

Are conservatives equally petty at times – definitely. But this dragging families into political threads is something that should be discouraged.

Newsweek Poll conducted by Princeton Survey Research Associates International. March 4-5, 2009. N=1,203 adults nationwide. MoE ± 3.5. RV = registered voters

“Next, as I read you the names of some people in politics, please tell me if you have a favorable or unfavorable opinion of each one. If I mention someone you never heard of before this interview, just tell me. What about Sarah Palin?”

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Favorable
Unfavorable
Never
Heard of
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3/4-5/09
44 42 3 11
10/22-23/08 RV
44 46 1 9
10/8-9/08 RV
49 45 1 5
9/10-11/08 RV
52 32 4 12

The frightening aspect of all this is they do not see a distinction. They believe that its perfectly acceptable to attack a mother and her Downs syndrome child and smear someone beyond all good conscience. After all its how you get into power.

Well fine. The election is over and now they are still going after not just Sarah Palin but her family.

They do not see their own evil. But then I guess we conservatives deserve it. We are evil hitler loving, gun toting Nazis who want to conquer the world. We deserve to be put in gulags and an Inquistion held to purge us of our political positions.

Conservatives are evil rotten scum. I rather suspect that if the left had their way they would like to line us all up and shoot us.

Sorta reminds me of 1855 and Pre Civil war America. Neither side sees the others points, refuses to compromise and is fueled by hate.

I find these kinds of assertions so bizarre. She can't be a hypocrite for what her daughter does- she has the same limited control over that as any other parent. The only way you could claim that someone's a hypocrite in that sort of situation would be if they publicly professed that they believe teens should abstain but then privately actually condone it (say, inviting the daughter's boyfriend to sleep over or giving them other unsupervised opportunities, knowingly and purposefully, to have sex.) I really don't see anything that Sarah Palin has done which doesn't comport with the values that she publicly professes. You can certainly have your own opinion about whether she's handling things in the best manner, but there's no hypocrisy in being wrong (and if you know of a perfect parent, please do let me know who it is because I've made my share of mistakes and every parent that I know has as well.)

Would you like to be called a Marxist, or a Fascist—even “inaccurately”?

And as far as her now not supporting Levi- it seems to me that you presume that she was only supporting the marriage for politically calculated reasons and that's why she now has abandoned that support. I think at least equally plausible is the idea that like most mothers in that situation, she's feeling her way through it one step at a time and first attempted to have the father of her daughter's baby take responsibility through marriage but then perhaps has thought better of even encouraging that if the boy in question isn't going to be able to step up to do so.

But part of it may have to do with Barack wanting privacy and protecting his children. Also part of it is a delicate balancing act which I'm sure both Palin and Obama struggled with. On the one hand your family is your family and they can't be expected to campaign with you all the time or be the center of attention. On the other hand they are your family and to the extent that you're campaigning for either position (Prez or VP) the public needs to know about your family and how you raise them.

So while I can't say whether or not Palin used her family as props (though I think she probably did a little) I can say that Obama has done a much better job at balancing the demands of the campaign and spending time with his family. He has a great family and has gone about raising them responsibly. I love the fact that at the beginning of the campaign he explained to his girls what was going on and that he would make it up to them by getting them a dog. He also consulted with his wife before campaigning and got her to agree to go along with it. It really seemed like a give and take on his part with his family. I don't get that sense from Palin because McCain had only met her once or twice before and if I remember correctly when McCain offered her the running mate slot she took it right away…. Not much time to talk to your family and really think through what a decision like this means and how it would change their lives.

Many twelve year olds can become fathers yet I don't think we would consider them mature enough to be adults who should go around getting girls (yes, girls- kids their same age) pregnant. Just because one can do the deed doesn't mean that you're ready for the responsibility.

But as far as Levi taking responsibility…. I thought he was. He and Bristol were engaged to be married and didn't he also drop out of high school? The responsibility here is both of the parents and Palin pointed out when the engagement was announced that Bristol and Levi were models because they were taking responsibility.

Now that Palin no longer needs Levi she has turned her back on him. It's one thing for Palin to insist on the kids taking responsibility when the VP is at stake. It's another thing to treat him like an enemy and smear him.

Sarah Palin is the adult and while Levi and Bristol both made a mistake when she became pregnant, it Sarah, Todd (and Levi's family) who are lacking their own responsibility to their children. Sarah Palin herself believes that children should be raised in a heterosexual marriage, and she believes that teens should abstain from sex…. yet when it comes to living her own life, raising her own family and setting a good example she certainly is good at being a hypocrite.

I think Sarah Palin is just plain messy.

As I said, let's just agree to disagree on this.

They want the demise of the GOP so that they can march the road to a facist America. Oh pardon me while I buy some more popcorn and watch the hate filled left ooze righteous contempt for anyone who would dare speak up, comment or attempt to make a point.

But lets do a brief history lesson here…………BUSH..was hitler, a nazi, Chimperor in chief, Shrub, Liar…etc…etc…etc.

Now Obama is president and the left is livid to the point of marching to the facist drum over it.

How is this different? How is this different? How is this different? Why? Bang the drum slowly as America slowly dies under the thumb of Fascism.

Fascism is the root of the democratics ills. They are fascists. Pure and simple and the sooner THEY realize it the sooner we will all be a bit better off.