Let’s be honest. That’s what happened. McCain picking a young (by presidential standards), working mother who’s a popular governor and telegenic as his running mate was the last thing that John McCain was supposed to do! He was supposed to pick some middle aged white guy who the Obama campaign was set up to attack (ie Romney). Palin threw them for a loop and absolutely killed the positive afterglow of Apollo’s speech last Thursday night. Naturally they can’t find much to throw at her, so they have to scrape the bottom of the barrel.

Make no mistake, this sleazefest is about one thing and one thing only: running down Governor Palin before she has a chance to wow the country on Wednesday night. After that, all bets are off on this election.

We must admit…John McCain is one mischievious, ballsy, and shrewd fellow.

really sad.

I am amazed at the extent the same Obamaniacs who attacked Stanley Kurtz as being slimy for requesting the Annenburg documents are now gleefully smearing a 17 year old’s personal life across the headlines.

Sickening.

pregnant that quickly, she has parts of steel. This is so completely far-fetched that I’m having trouble reading even your work disputing it. I’m just far too rational of a person to deal with that junk.

I love you anyway, though.

is not the first person who comes to mind.

When I look for examples of false witness, he has a shot at it.

…You’re even responding to this leftist garbage. The more its out there the more suspicion sneaks in. This trash will be gone by midweek.

It’s just making our gal look stronger and stronger…

This ridiculous Bristol Palin “story” that is “shocking” conservative and religious Republicans is a figment of the leftwing media’s imagination. It should be obvious to anyone with half a brain that liberals in this country are clueless when it comes to understanding conservative and Christian values.

It makes me laugh out loud when reporters act surprised when Christian conservative leaders don’t start throwing rocks at Sarah Palin and Bristol: “WHAT! HOLY-MOLEY BATMAN! They’re not throwing Sarah and Bristol under the bus!!!!

Bristol has SINNED and thus they should abandon her! That’s what Christians and Republicans do, right???”

Ah, no, that’s not what Christians and Republicans do. And at least half of America understands and agrees with Sarah Palin that the right thing to do is being done.

Democrats, liberals and the press are clueless. Take a look at liberal blogs–they are going bonkers over this. They can’t understand why anyone would tolerate a 17 year old girl getting pregnant and then not have an abortion. I mean, that would fix everything, right?

To show how obsurd this entire attack on an innocent 17 year girl is consider this: Liberals and Democrats didn’t find a single thing morally upsetting when PRESIDENT Clinton got a blow job from an intern in the Oval Office.

Think about that for a minute.

The left said with one voice, “It’s only sex and it’s none of your business. As long as he does his job, what does it matter who President Clinton cheats on his wife with.”

The left and the national press didn’t find anything wrong when Bill said, “I want you to listen carefully, I did not have sexual relations with that woman…”

So of course it’s okay to spread vicious rumors about Sarah Palin and attack her 17 year old daughter’s character, integrity and honesty.

This dirty smear campaign will only galvanize the Republican base. I donated money for the first time in my life to a political campaign after this attack on Sarah Palin surfaced. I will now buy a bunch of campaign merchandise to further support the McCain/Palin ticket.

These Democrats are a danger to our nation. They will stop at nothing to win. Attacking a 17 year girl proves that they have no scruples.

I don’t think Palin is going to last.

I said earlier that they were forcing her out into the spotlight to quickly, and I still think that.

Someone like Biden has a lot of baggage, but it’s familiar to everyone already. Palin got thrust onto the national scene so quickly that people will get hit with anything negative about her all at once. Thus we have thirty year old dui’s from her husband hitting the news (yet, the media still doesn’t care that Obama lied about his relationship with Ayers).

I completely agree with the first response. The Dems expected another “old white guy” kind of pick and were completely unprepared for Palin’s selection. They don’t know how to effectively respond, they’re all off message, and right now everyone’s just throwing out their natural reactions – and those reactions are revealing in how hypocritical and dirty they are.

Palin will survive this storm of crap, because she’s authentic and principled. If the worst they can come up with on her is a Truther-pregnancy-coverup, a mistake her daughter has made, and her lack of experience (nevermind Obama’s), she’s golden.

Andrew is truly a scumbag. Why would anybody take this guy’s opion driven by his inner man-crush seriously is beyond me.

This is the guy who knowingly solicited unprotected gay sex on a website even with HIV+ status.

I’m going to make a diagnosis about Andy Sullivan, he’s got syphilis. I can’t see any other explanation for it. He was once sane, now he’s crazy. People who suffer from syphilis long term go crazy.

Hey this makes more sense than believing that someone can be pregnant with twins whose birth will be separated by 8 months.

Oh and he’s a d-bag too.

The only way to deal with this sort of human trash is to play fire with fire.

His personal life needs to be exposed thoroughly. It’s not like he’s clean in any way.

This guy is a trash, period.

And many posters are on the money as well.

Palin scares the media and Democrats. It is why they believe she must be destroyed politicaly at all cost – even if that includes zeroing in on her kids.

The thing is, it maybe back fire.

This story and many others generated over at Kos was solely designed to try and make Christian conservatives (many who were sitting on the side lines until now) sit back down and become unenthused.

The problem is they dont understand Christians, and or Christianity.

I believe there is a good chance this could back fire on them. At least I hope it does.

I agree that we will need to see how Sarah handles the media pressure – but if its anything from what I’ve seen in her interviews with Kudlow and other talking heads before being nominated – she will be fine.

my little tummy pooch means that I’m permanently pregnant too.

And I’ve been around the blogosphere for probably 5 years (which, granted, is far less than some of you) but I cannot fathom why anyone would read Sullivan. I’ve never read him, but neither have I read one single complimentary or intriguing piece about him.

It must be a pretty strong addiction that you haven’t been able to shake it yet.

Proper grammar saves lives.

Let’s eat Grandma.
Let’s eat, Grandma.

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… the only thing you left out of significance is that the entire conspiracy concoction was too ludicrous to be taken seriously by any reasonable grown-up with a minimum of experience in the real world. This complete lack of engagement with reality typifies many of the subordinate points so ably critiqued in the main post, but stand before and above it all.

Demonstrating a somewhat similar lack of engagement with reality is the notion that John McCain would have any interest in dropping Palin at this point. It’s the furthest thing from his mind. I’d state that he might as well just forfeit the election or suspend his entire campaign, but even to suggest such a rationale is to lend too much credence to the idea. There is no authentic basis for such a decision, just a lot of thoroughly disposable media chatter and even less credible internet chatter.

In short, stupid, immature, and lurid insanity of this sort will be ignored by the vast majority of voters, and laughed at by the relatively few who even become aware of it.

Time to move on, to coin a phrase.

Can you imagine it? Who the daily players will be?
I’m guessing little Andi Sullivan will be chief of staff or at the very least Obama’s press secretary……..
Anyone’s skin crawling yet?
It will make the Clinton White House look positively morally stellar….

Women of America, take note: if you look anything like Bristol Palin, the average Obama supporter suspects that you’re probably pregnant.

The women of America could stand to drop fifteen pounds.

if there is one is they have wasted all their first attack on this instead of the legit issue of Troopergate. Now, when they go after that they will look like they are grasping at straws. This will all likely die down with the convention starting tonight and I hope after seeing Zeus’s army try to slander a 17 year old girl in the midst of a major hurricane that McCain lets the gloves go back off. I want to hear Rudy give Obama and Biden a new exit oraphus tonight.

If Barack Obama had placed through the same scrutiny by half, i.e. Reverend Wright, Bill Ayers, do you really believe that he would have won Iowa and be the nominee? Isn’t it amazing how the press has learned so much about Palin in just a four days while there are still glaring gaps in the Obama biography?

Lose their power of critical thinking.
They have to blindly follow the prettiest words they hear. They are unable to distinguish between word and deed. The memory that they should be able to tell the difference, and that the difference is important, is an irritant that makes them defensive of the source of the flowery words they hunger for.

Sarah Palin will soon release her medical records–including those of the birth of Trig–to the public.

Andrew Sullivan will soon thereafter take an honored place next to Rosie “Fire won’t melt steel” O’Donnell in the Moonbat Hall Of Fame.

This is me channeling Arc from Kos after this preganancy thing blows over and he’s still looking for other things to hit the Palins with…

RE: First picture, with the mountain in the backdrop.

EXAMINING: Track Palin’s perfectly placed spikey hair.

CONCLUSION: Track has TEH GAY! EEEw scandal!

I think Sullivan’s comments are disgusting! Andrew would stoop to anything to discredit someone who they fear! It is equally as deploreable to get to Palin through Bristol. Keep drinking the kool-aid Andrew and leave Bristol and Trigg alone!

“There’s a entire state up north littered with Republicans that tried to smear me who were a lot smarter than the leftist blogosphere. Don’t think for a minute that I won’t do the same to Democrats. You don’t want to “drop the gloves” with me.”

First, it would be admitting that the VC Andrews-esque theory is something more than ridiculous.

Second, since I’ve seen people saying that a woman who is pro-life and would keep her baby no matter what should not even bother with prenatal screenings and diagnosis, they would just try to go through and find some kind of “evidence” that Sarah actually considered terminating the pregnancy, or try to say that her flight from Texas to Alaska to give birth was irresponsible. Some have already said that it was a demonstration that she did not actually want Trig that she would have risked him by not staying in Texas to have him.

Third…. the health and state of a woman’s reproductive system has nothing to do with her ability to hold down a job, and so if she shouldn’t be asked to give her medical records on a job interview, she shouldn’t be asked to give her medical records when she’s campaigning for vice-president.

And here’s my refutation of anyone who thinks that a person who is pro-life either would not or should not consider prenatal diagnosis/screening:

When I first started my job here in Northwest Arkansas, one of my coworker’s wife was pregnant with their third child. They are very pro-life.

However, because they believe that the best thing they can do for their children while in utero is to ensure that they have the best medical care, they had screenings done. I believe it was the quad-screen that came back bad, but they did a thorough ultrasound to try to determine why the screening test looked off.

Their baby, who would have been their first son, had complete bilateral renal agenesis. Aka, no kidneys. There was no way that their son would be able to live for long once the cord was cut, because it was her body that was cleansing his of toxins. Since amniotic fluid is created partially by fetal urine, she had very low amniotic fluid and so their son would likely be smaller than usual (intrauterine growth retardation, which can be caused by many things but low amniotic fluid means the uterus doesn’t expand like it normally does, so the baby can’t grow as fast).

They never considered terminating the pregnancy, even though there was no hope for a happy outcome. Instead, they used the news to allow them to plan for their child’s life, as short as they knew it would be. They were able to prepare their two daughters for the fact their little brother wouldn’t be coming home from the hospital. They were able to get some of their grieving done before their child was born, so they could spend his very short life focused on him.

He came two months early. He lived 12 hours. He was rocked, held, cradled, and loved his entire life.

Now, I personally don’t know if I could have done what they chose to do. I’ve had two grandparents die of kidney failure and toxin overload is a very painful way to die. But they did not believe it was right to say that their son did not deserve those 12 hours, even if they were painful for him. They did what they thought was right, and it was their faith that got them through it.

They walked their talk, and I respect and admire that more than I can express in words.

Why oh why would he “turn” like this? What could be the ISSUE that turned him from a “respective blogger” into an Obama cheerleader. I tell you, I haven’t been this confused or startled since David Brock stopped being a conservative!

Sarcasm aside, Sullivan was never a “respective blogger”, he is and has been a one-issue individual, pro-homosexual marriage and true conservatives were gullible enough to let him in the “fold” for the strange reason that it made “us” feel better that “look, we have a homosexual friend!”

Why oh why would he “turn” like this? What could be the ISSUE that turned him from a “respective blogger” into an Obama cheerleader. I tell you, I haven’t been this confused or startled since David Brock stopped being a conservative!

Sarcasm aside, Sullivan was never a “respective blogger”, he is and has been a one-issue individual, pro-homosexual marriage and true conservatives were gullible enough to let him in the “fold” for the strange reason that it made “us” feel better that “look, we have a homosexual friend!”