Comments about ‘Palin says daughter is pregnant’

Yikes, nice mom. So intent on furthering her political career that she accepted the VP nomination even though she knew her her unwed teenage daughter was pregnant and would soon become the topic of national news and talk-show jokes. Wow.

It appears that Palin has some things that should be worthy of her attention on the home front. Her unmarried daughter is five months pregnant. She has a new-born child with Downs Snydrome.

Her desire to serve the people of the United States is admirable. However, as an Evangelical Christian Conservative, it would seem appropriate for her to concentrate on serving those loved ones at home who truly need her motherly love.

Palin will be gone by Friday: Mitt is in. He has to be the next selection due to reasons a,b,c, and d.

Here is Palin's speech (pay me later):

It has come to my attention that my family needs me, that Alaska needs me, and that I should not be in Washington DC when I am needed in Juneau, Anchorage, etc. I love John McCain, and the gop, but for the good of the race for this critical election, I have decided not to accept the offer of vp offered by the next president of the united states, John McCain. May God bless America and shine his light upon us, over all of the others.

You heard it here first folks. Oh what... a web we weave...

she knew her kid was pregnant and still jumped for the vp slot... "disgusting" is what my mother would have called that, I call it ... well "disgusting..."

It was nice knowing you, don't let the door hit...

"We're proud of Bristol's decision to have her baby."

So it was Bristol's decision, i.e., CHOICE to have the baby? Not KEEP the baby--HAVE the baby! I thought Republicans didn't want women to have that choice?

Good old Republican and evangelical "family values" at work. Gotta love it.

I think the next question is whether she just found this out from her daughter or already knew and kept it from McCain to make sure she was on the ticket.

What kind of judgment do McCain and Palin both have to play this out in the glare of national attention?

Meanwhile, Obama has put together a well-oiled campaign that propelled him, despite his negatives, to unseat the "inevitable" and seasoned Hillary Clinton and the venerated John McCain. THAT'S LEADERSHIP!

If Biden had a daughter who was pregnant out of wedlock, these good "christians" would be all over both of them, calling them sinners, raking him over the coals for his stand on abortion. The hypocrisy of these right wing religious nuts knows no bounds.

The greatest test of strength comes from those people who can deal with their promblems, not the ones who run from them.

The Palin's are fine people. If they had done what Mitt Romney had campaigned on for govenor, the baby would have been aborted.

The Palin's are a fine family, and it's time to butt out and leave them alone. Keep your "ward gossip" in your own home, and raise your own kids.

Thanks, I am totally with you!

I agree with you but I am still troubled about what this says about McCain's ability to make his first important presidential decision.

Palin, and everything about her became fair game when she accepted the vp spot on the republican ticket. And by the way. How do you know the Palin's are good people, as you claim. Do you know them personally, or are you going by the fact that she claims to be a conservative and has a religion similar to yours? My guess would be the latter.

It says that two accomplished leaders (McCain and Palin) can love their family and still serve their nation.

Dick Cheney's daughter had a baby with her gay "partner" while he was in office, and he said he would love his daughter and his grandbaby. That's what fathers do, Republican or Democrat.

It says that an Alaskan mayor can get appointed to run the ethics commission for Alaska's gas, and then unseat the very Republican governor that appointed her. It says that this woman has integrity, courage, and conviction.

It says that a 44-year-old governor or a 17-year-old girl can get pregnant, understanding their surroundings, know their limitations, and choose to be loving parents. It says that they value the life of a child. LDS Family Services would tell you the same.

The bottom line is that some of you fine Utahns, are Democrats that will vote for Obama regardless - and this is just another excuse to riddle McCain/Palin, or, you are a bitter and scorn Mitt Romney fanatic that can't accept the fact that a liberal Massachusetts' governor wasn't the best choice for a ticket that you're evidently not loyal to anyways.

Teenage girls get pregnant in Iowa and teenage girls get pregnant in Provo. Children are a blessing. If my little girl got pregnant, or if my son got a girl pregnant, I would like to think that I can still do my job. Sarah Palin will be a good Vice President with or without the permission of the Deseret News readers.

To think... some girls/women get pregnant and you would never know that they ever were, because a $400 abortion is just too convenient. Yes, that's their legal choice (and John Ashcroft would suggest the same), but I would commend any mother that would choose to keep her baby.

Actually, we already know about the GOP double standard. The question is what does this reflect on McCain's leadership and decision making ability.

Yep. As the old saying goes,

IOKIYAR

It's Okay If You're A Republican.

Honestly, if this had been a democratic candidate, this message board would be awash with "No success can compensate for failure in the home!"

Who said Palin (or her beautiful daughter) was a "failure"?

If this was Chelsea Clinton, the news media would be calling her the mother of the year, just like they did Madonna.

If the question is "what does this reflect on McCain's leadership and decision making ability", it suggests that Sarah Palin is more than just a pretty face. She's a conservative governor who has a history of reform.

What was John Edwards? A trial lawyer that never did anything in the senate. What was Al Gore? A best selling author that did nothing in the senate. What is Barrack Obama? The junior senator from Illinois that has done nothing except campaign for president.

This is a very sad situation, but one that makes me wonder if Gov. Palin already bit off more than she could chew, trying to juggle the demands of raising a family and the governorship.

It's interesting that her daughter apparently got pregnant about the time of the birth of her last child. Her life became doubly more complicated with the birth of a special-needs child and her daughter's pregnancy.

So the question I have is how committed is this candidate really to family values given the obvious results of her past attempts to balance family/work in the past, and her willingness to subject her daughter (and whole family) to national media scrutiny at what she must have known would be an already tumultuous time for them.

Given all of this, my sense is she is putting her personal ambition above the best interests of her family, and that is not the kind of leader for America.

This is God's definition of a good leader (not mine):
1 Timothy 3:1-7
"Here is a trustworthy saying: If anyone sets his heart on being an overseer, he desires a noble task. Now the overseer must be above reproach, the husband of but one wife, temperate, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach, not given to drunkenness, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a love of money. He must manage his own family well and see that his children obey him with proper respect. (If anyone does not know how to manage his own family, how can he take care of God's church?).

If Sarah Palin can't manage her own family, how is she to take care of our country? This is a valid question for those of us who seek God's council when voting for someone.

WOW,he who is without sin let him cast the first stone. If she chooses to run let her run. She will probably still be much involved with her daughter and Her other child. Yes it requires a lot of love and time, but let her make that decision. Oh and by the way I'm having an awful time figuring out the difference between Republicans and Democrats. Is there really a difference?