I was convinced yesterday that the Sarah Palin story could not get any more weird. Obviously I was wrong. The McCain campaign released a statement today from the Palin family informing the world that Sarah Palin’s 17-year old is daughter is with child. She is pregnant. From the Palin family:
“We have been blessed with five wonderful children who we love with all our heart and mean everything to us. Our beautiful daughter Bristol came to us with news that as parents we knew would make her grow up faster than we had ever planned. We’re proud of Bristol’s decision to have her baby and even prouder to become grandparents.
They are proud that their 17-year old child has decided to become a parent and they are even prouder to become grandparents? Maybe the word has a different meaning up in Alaska.
Also from the Palin family:
As Bristol faces the responsibilities of adulthood, she knows she has our unconditional love and support. “Bristol and the young man she will marry are going to realize very quickly the difficulties of raising a child, which is why they will have the love and support of our entire family. We ask the media to respect our daughter and Levi’s privacy as has always been the tradition of children of candidates.”
So she is going to compound the problem of having a baby at 17 by marrying the boy (or man) that impregnated her? Gee, I wonder what the odds are of that turning out to be a long and happy marriage.
Why would Governor Palin agree to run for Vice-President knowing that her 17-year old daughter was with child? What’s the rush? Does she worry that if she doesn’t run for Vice-President now, she will be too experienced later on?
Why would they even release this information about their daughter? According to McCain adviser Mark Salter the campaign announced the daughter’s pregnancy to rebut the rumors that Sarah Palin’s fifth child that was born in April and was really born to Bristol Palin. If Bristol is now four months pregnant, she couldn’t possibly have given birth to baby Trig this past April.
Ted
/ September 1, 2008This is a plus. As Mark Steyn points out in his recent best seller, America Alone, if our western civilization is demographically to survive in the increasingly “hostile to the west” islamic world — and not end up like the sinking European populations — these are the precise people (the Bristol Palins’) we should thank for increasing their progeny.
Schooly
/ September 1, 2008True enough- but so far, her batting average for productive members of society is .500.
(Geez, I just re-read that. Is that over the line? I can’t even tell anymore.)
Jesse Jace
/ September 1, 2008Speaking of Baby Factory Palin, I thought you might enjoy this.
http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=CTbsbeY5k5k&eurl=
It’s Joe Scarborough and Pat Buchanan discussing the possibility of Sarah Palin as VP, before McCain actually made the announcement, and destroying her quite thoroughly. Call it a “preemptive strike.”
Aride
/ September 1, 2008Here appears to be Bristol’s father.
http://www.radaronline.com/exclusives/2008/09/palin-daughters-babydaddy-some-dude-named-levi-reports-enqui.php