Did you take a look at the NYT yesterday? Here’s a tidbit from Maureen Dowd. Sickening.

The nerve of her.

There is a theme in Christian tradition that the deepest, toastiest regions of hell are reserved for purveyors of false witness.

Since the left seems to have gotten religion by imaging Hurricane Gustav as God’s endorsement of The One, they better start thinking about this. Yahweh doesn’t LIKE breaches of that commandment.

She represents all American teenagers who are being exploited by the Obama Campaign just to get votes.

These people are painting all American teenage girls as immoral!

Decrease their revenue.

and intention to marry the father, the left will attempt to portray S. Palin as a monster who coerces her daughter into following outdated traditions. Therefore it is imperative that we draw out what the left is saying subversively in blogs and diaries, and bring it in the light of day for the public and press to compare and decide who the monsters really are. I hope Bristol is being shielded from this somehow, but it is about to get nasty from the left.

Bringing it to light will help marginalize the radical world view behind the attacks; and we can hope the general public, who is far more conservative than the media realizes, will increase their support for Gov Palin in the end.

help us deal with the issue of Bristol’s pregnancy. Releasing that story in the context of refuting this story is smart.

Not a big issue since McCain knew about it. In fact it will be a plus as a demonstration of how to deal with an unwanted pregnancy. My admiration for Sarah and Todd only grows as I watch how they have dealt with life.

The Dems are going to have to be careful how they handle this. I predict…silence.

The nutroots, that’s another story. But aren’t they pretty much in favor of teenaged sex?

Note the ring on Bristol’s finger at her mom’s
acceptance speech..

http://www.reuters.com/news/pictures/articleslideshow?articleId=USN2944356420080901&channelName=topNews#a=1

I am a liberal pacifist feminist tree-hugging hippiechick who wanted Hillary Clinton but is going to vote for Obama.

When I saw the swirl of rumors start up about Sarah Palin, I posted on a Democratic board and said what I thought.

Which was that as a person who believes in equal pay for equal work, no discrimination against working mothers or working soon-to-be mothers, the idea that woman can have a family and have a job and do well at both, I cannot be hypocritical about Sarah Palin’s choice to accept the nomination because she has a four month old boy with Down’s Syndrome. (I have not heard Sarah advocate the Dr. Laura “I am my kid’s mom” attitude, so I can’t call HER a hypocrite on that either.)

I also said that I personally believed that perpetuating the rumor that Trig is actually Bristol’s child without any evidence aside from circumstantial and talk was as low, if not lower, than suggesting with no evidence that Michelle Obama went on a “whitey” rant or that Barack is a Muslim despite him saying he is not. Because it involved not the candidates’s wife who is at least an adult, but that it involved the candidate’s daughter, who did not choose to run for election and so did not open herself up to public scrutiny. Not to mention so farfetched that it reminded me of a VC Andrews novel.

Now it looks like the only part of the rumor that was at all true is that Bristol Palin did get pregnant — but is still pregnant and Trig could not physically be her child at all.

There are many issues that I don’t agree with Palin about.

I am pro-choice. I respect both Sarah and Bristol’s choices to keep their children and both choices show that they have an enormous amount of personal strength, courage, and faith in what they believe is right. I think women should have the right to make their own choices, however. Sarah is pro-life even in the cases of rape or incest — when a person did not even choose to risk pregnancy.

It is my understanding that Palin is also for abstinence-only education and is against gay rights. I just don’t agree on either.

And those are just my disagreements with Palin, not even the ones I have with McCain.

So I have plenty of reason not to vote for the ticket, and much better things to discuss than ludicrous rumors or sexist statements when saying why I won’t vote for her.

I am sorry that some of my fellow Democrats decided to smear a candidate’s daughter in such a vile fashion — although now that it has been acknowledged that Bristol is five months pregnant at this time, I do feel it is reasonable to ask Sarah if she actually does support abstinence-only sex education as the way to prevent teen pregnancy.

And every rumor-monger should apologize to not only Sarah and Bristol, but the rest of the Democrats who they made look bad.

Have a good Convention, all!

of liberals and the Left chased me right out of the Dem party after 28 years. No one who is a recovered Democrat is at all surprised by this spewing of putrid smears and disgusting innuendo and outright accusations. This is liberal policy at its most basic and base.

There is a blog post somewhere identifying IP addresses involved in promoting the worst of the smears. They lead directly back to one of Obama’s active sites (Fight the Smears) that, rather than defending against smears is actively generating them via the obscenity-laced blogs on the Left. The research is pretty damning. He won’t fire anybody. Obama takes the high road publicly while riding the lowest roads privately. This will not end well (for him).