This is not a post about Bristol Palin.
By bluegal Tuesday Feb 17, 2009 7:00pm
[Image from here, and it's not a joke.]
It's understandable that some critics of the Left think we progressives have an unhealthy hatred/fascination with the Palin family. And certainly, the children of former vice-presidential candidates are off-limits...
...except when they are willingly interviewed by Greta Van Susteren at FOX News. Sigh, the Palin Reputation Recovery Tour is obviously fully booked through the Iowa Caucuses on December 20, 2011.
But the big "news" of the interview is that, gasp, Bristol Palin thinks "everyone should be abstinent but it's not realistic... [sex] is more and more accepted among kids my age."
Wasn't it one news cycle ago that the Minority Leader of the Senate thinks it will, ahem, play well with his base to remove contraception/AIDS prevention programs from the stimulus package?
Why does it bear repeating that the entire Republican Party is completely out of touch with reality?
Add: (Nicole) Interesting that Grandma Sarah didn't want Bristol to have too much time alone in the spotlight, and made an "unexpected" call on Bristol and Greta, bringing baby Tripp with her. Her response to Bristol's comments on abstinence-only education not being realistic? "Life happens"
Brilliant.
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Since they are completely out of touch with reality, how can they ever realize how screwed up they are? One nasty catch 22 those GOPers are stuck in.
Thy name is neo-con.
... can't even distinguish between "your" and "you're."
Boy, Greta Van Botox really has a crush on Caribou Barbie.
Just imagine if it had been Obama's unmarried daughter who had gotten knocked up. Ah, Republicans, they name is hypocrisy.
Moosegirl and her sick and sorry clan need to go away -- for good.
The wingnuts would rather have a woman get pregnant than be responsible and use contraception, since that would imply she owns her own body. It's (still) all about using women's sexuality against them, to control them. Always has been. They can't stand the idea that they are not entitled by divine right to use women as a breeding tool, and nothing more.
i spoke with a evangelical (R) person today. he says he believes palin will be a force/identity for the (R) party. he also thought palin was "mishandled' by the mcSurge handlers. i disagree. she's NOT an intellect
and she continues to prove it.
im serious
if they can watch and listen to her, without ripping their own eardrums out...then they lack any brain capacity
When it comes to Sarah Palin, the GOP is thinking with its collective gonads, reaffirming Mar Del Zur's contention (above).
Had her kid been on birth control; maybe... just maybe... the Palin family would not have had to do that shot gun wedding.
'not for use with caribou' and 'drill friendly' ... haha.
I agree, the spelling error is unfortunate.
n/t
to want to remove contraception from stimulus, er, package.
Next they will be calling for a ban on KY jelly. (no, it's not from Kentucky.)
Why my pbj's tasted like crap.
Peanut butter & jelly? Or partner's blow jobs?
Not up on my internet speak.
The samwiches.:)
geeezz Jo, I'm shocked!
ys bug.
I'll never be able to look at another pbj again.
I, I, just don't know what I'll do now?
And to think of all that lonely wheat bread. sigh.
:-)
can be dangerous to your health.
Blow jobs, on the other hand.....
Yes, I'm ending this now sitemonitor.
Ambidextrous?
ok,ok I'm done too.:)
Jo, you are a wildcat!
Just remembrin my youth.
Abstinence? That's for cowards.
What else were we put here to do besides have lots of sex?
Use it or lose it.
... and have fun doing it, I always say.
I like your style, Jo!
:)
jebus, these people are so stilted in their thinking that it is difficult, if not impossible, to watch this stuff.
And to think we could have had the bitch as our vice president!!
I hope to god she doesn't run for president. I voted for mccain, true, but if it had been palin v obama i would have voted obama
we are gonna get her in there
her candidacy will be the nail in the coffin
More of the same McCain? Oh good grief!
You know voting for McCain WAS the same as voting for Palin. Think about it, but not too hard. Don't want blood to go spurting from your ears, donchaknow.
no you vote for the president not the vice president. there was a time when you could vote for the vice president but not anymore.
ps. you never did answer my question on the other blog something about if i am saying it then somehow it has got to be wrong. I would like to now your answer just out of curiosity.
There's an answer?
That was a statement.
silly me. let me rephrase. why does there have to be something wrong when i say i dont like bush and the things he says.
I believe what you said was "Bush is the worst president ever". Considering some of the things I've seen you post, I have to say, "If that's what Chris thinks then, somehow it has to be wrong, no matter how right it sounds".
a. no i said he will probably go down as the worst president in history.
b. just because i tend to be conservative doesn't mean i follow bush and his people like a groupie. i do disagree with you on a lot of things particularly the way the economic crisis is being handled (starting with bush). doesn't mean i have to agree with bush. just because i am not a bush hater doesn't mean i disagree with some of the things he has done.
c. some of the time, no most of the time, i represent the point of view i do because it pisses people off. some of the arguments i have made in the past, especially during the election, were just to do that. truth be told i am a moderate. there are good things and bad things about both parties. for example, i do not like the increasingly socialist tendencies being acted upon but i also dont believe in a government that doesn't regulate at all. both, if taken far enough, are disastorous. my opinions, which are formed on my personal research and intuition, tend to be centrist. for example, i think the government needs to curb its spending and let the market balance itself (conservative) but i also think that the government should help the people that are adversely affected in that process by beefing unemployment benefits and other such programs (liberal).
d. i think blaming bush for everything is a simplistic answer and not entirely true, in most cases. for example, this economic crisis had roots going all the way back to the carter admin. there is plenty of blame to go around on both sides of the aisle.
i hope that this helps dispel the image that i am some sort of troll.
You da man.
not saying im the man just saying that maybe our thinking may be more akin than first appearances suggest.
whatever
When the nominee for president has one foot in the grave, you better believe you're voting for the vice-president as well. Nobody really expects to see President Biden, but Palin in the Oval Office was a distinct possibility.
Exactly!
haha.
If McCain had won, he'd be dead in one or two years and Voila! Palin would have been POTUS.
McCain did his party and America as a whole, a diservice by creating this monster and then letting it roam freely around the counrtyside. And all in an effort to court the supposedly disenfranchised Hillary vote.
Do as we say, not as we do.
{ Joe, The Caps Joe. The Caps. SiteMonitor}
Jeez, my blood pressure went up just reading that.
Smoke crack, drink beer and fuck! Lots of folks would consider that a vaction paradise.
Now I don't drink, and drugs are a complete turn-off, but that other thing sounds good. Guess there just may be something for everyone up in Alaska.
Guess my last comment doesn't make much sense since UncleJoe's comment got deleted for caps. Too bad, it was damn funny.
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I can attest to that!
i also hate that we have been labled as hating her for no reason
no reason?????
she represents everything that is wrong with the repug party
the first words that came from her mouth on a national stage were lies
the only reason she had high numbers in alaska was because of socialist policies (tax the rich to hand money to the poor) then she spent everyday on the campaign trail deriding these same policies
her state is awash in oil, yet they cant figure out how to provide affordable heating oil to rural alaskans
she runs the statehouse like her own little kingdome and has put people in places of authority, only because she went to school with them
and we still dont know if trig is her baby
and then, we have the right coming to the aid of bristol....when at the same time, they are sending death threats to octomom
fuck ya....im pissed
she is bush with a vagina
incapable of speaking in complete sentences, or putting across a coherent thought
a new book about her is coming out
part of it discusses how she kept the pregnancy of trig a secret from her own family, because she wasnt sure how she could deal with a special needs child
say what?????
this is the bullshit of the antiabortionists
im sick of her and her kind
Nice, heh, was that on purpose?
honestly, who would go to alaska to do a bio on her. but the book is going to be a raging success. why? cuz not only are her worshipers going to buy it but also because people who hate are going to buy it so that they can rip it to shreds
take the book of someone gave it to me!!!
will torrent it
the internets is a wonderful place
true but then i would miss the comfort of holding a book. o wait i wont read it. ill wait till it comes out and let you all let me know what it says. that way i dont have to spend money or take the time to read it.
on the stupidity of these people............make teh stupid go away!!!
If only Sarah Palin's parents had used a condom
it slipped off his nose.
Papa Palin kept using the same condom over and over again.
When will they just go away?
you know, the son of the drug dealer
shouldnt he be getting interviewed too?
He's only needed for one thing......donchakno?
of the nation. They grow Matanuska Thunder-Fuck out there in Wasilla (it's in the Matanuska valley.) It's grown hydroponically... in a number of off-road production facilities (quansit huts powered by gasoline generators) and it used to be LEGAL up until about 1990, and it's a RICH and POTENT high. The new recent fashion drug is METH-Amphetimine. Wasilla is the biggest METH producing community in the state. Rumor has it that the Palin girl was high as a kite all the time in high school... she probably got it at home. So was her boy friend. He probably got it from her.
As far as the SEX goes... isn't that what Republicans do... FUCK EACH OTHER FOR FUN AND PROFIT.
You mean there actually is such a thing as Mantanuska Thunderfuck? And here I thought Larry Kramer just made that shit up.
I lived in Fairbanks for a while in the '80's and we smoked it all the time. Every bit as good as the best weed that came out of Hawaii. My brother visited one winter from Minneapolis and RAVED about it. Really high THC content... and cheep too.
they shoulda never made pot illegal
that is what ended up driving the meth labs
that is what that crazy bitch said
well....what if there is no extended family to help care and feed the child?
i just watched sicko again last nite
in france, for families that do not have extended members, the gov sends a nanny twice a week to help out mothers
WHAT IS WRONG WITH THAT?
that is true family values
something that the palins surely dont have
for if they did....track wouldnt have become a meth freak, and bristol wouldnt have gotten knocked up before she turned 18
for more....check out cajin boy and palins deceptions blogs
How fricking stupid do some of these Palin"esk" sorts take us for?
This is just laughable, satirical comedy. And who best to be the spokeswoman, than Madam (makes no sense) Palin herself?
If you read through this comment thread, with an eye to making comparisons, I think you will find there is a valid reason to underestimate the smartitude of the us you are referring to.
SARAH HAS TO BE THE STAR
She can't stand to not be in the spotlight. You can tell it was just eating her up inside to know that back at her house was the opportunity to be on TV.
-Steve in Anchorage
props to Bristol for giving honest COHERENT answers and not just responses. See how easy that was, Sarah?
i saw a clip, when sarah brought the baby in to the interview, and she has some things to say, and the camera is showing bristol, looking up at her mom like, 'why are you here?' ...
combined with bristol's remarks, i wonder if there is some strain between mom and daughter... certainly looked like it...
she also said that she and levi will "ultimately" get married
so i guess the june wedding is off
so why is she a poster child for the antiabortionists, but some poor single mom in east la isnt?
keith and LAURA FLANDERS have a great conversation about the subject, in particular the need for REAL sex ed...
and, laura pointed out the lost 10 years that bristol regrets...
i enjoyed seeing/hearing flanders again too...
The old bitty can't even let bristol have her own spotlight. She's got to stick her smart ass into the limelight and put words in her mouth.
Too bad vanstern didn't shove her back out the door and start the interview with who she had planned to interview.....the unwed mamma.
Oh well....it's just "gee golly great. He's a really sweet little guy..and holy cow.....what a f*cked up nanny I am. Can't get over being miss runner up beauty queen and leader of the free world in AL where we can see the Russians from our kitchen window, dontcha know?"
Tripp is destined to be a mass murderer or something since Bristol is a single parent. And since she is not married, then she is single.
And Palin said that they are "proud of Bristol?" They certainly have a dissonance about the whole situation to me. They don't even have the self-awareness to be "ashamed" at the dichotomy. It's oh so great that Bristol has a support system, but what of the people that fall on hard times (like Joe "the Plumber's" family) and need a support system even for a short period of time?
Ack! IOKIYAR. Indeed.
I would suggest a moratorium on Palin posts. Just let the crazy mountain lady gain as much GOP support as possible. There would be nothing better for the Dems in 2012 than candidate Palin.
Her hypocrisy, lunacy and down right stupidity are what have made the GOP the great dinosaur it is now. I say give them all the rope they need for a mass extinction.
this is true. if the gop nominates palin it is a win for obama. although, unless obama royally screws the pooch, i dont see how he cannot get reelected. bush did:)
Thank God they've devolved into white trash, bible thumping morons. Now, expect eight years of sensible leadership.
PALIN 2012!!!!!!! Gawd, I genuinely hope so.
I'm as progressive as the next person, but this whole post and commentary is one big effn POS and am embarassment to this page.
Is it just me or does anyone else find the baby's name hilarious? Tripp? Really? Why not Mistake? Or Shouldausedacondom?
Ooops or ipromisetopullout
Of course, as upstanding Christians...there is only one name that is really accurate...."Rhythm"
The GOP is against condoms and other forms of artificial birth control because those things represent a threat to the continuation of their species.
I need to this minute.
She says at the end that it's not government's role to help raise these children born to children. But, it IS government's role to force them to have these children when "life happens." Gotcha.
will this woman and her family be relegated to a trivial pursuit question?
Makes me want to send a mother's day card right now. If my Mother were as obtrusive as that I would have run away or killed myself.
The attention whore that is Sarah Palin couldn't let her daughter have the spotlight for TOO long, dontcha know!
C'mon, Sarah just happens to waltz in with the baby on her way down to the river??? and GVS is not a very good actress: "We didn't expect to see you"
C'mon, they live in Alaska, it's not like Fox and Friends could just "drop in" on them anytime down the street in New York or Chicago. Alaska is not the easiest place to get around. And you don't think that Sarah didn't notice the Fox news trucks in her front yard?
Please.
This is still Fox supported Character Rebuilding 101 for Tainted Political Candidates.
Although there are many smart reasons to promote access to contraception, how many more do you need? People should want their grandchildren born into more choice circumstances, and not ahead of schedule by some moron.
Please, in the future, limit all threads involving GvS to transcripts. She's just too creepy. Putting her on with Palin is just too much.
I love their take on Bristol's surprise. That (a baby) was proof that it (a baby) could happen to anyone. Huh? It couldn't have happened to Bristol if she'd been following the Republican-approved plan of chaperones, chastity belts, no automobiles, and Glock-toting big brothers. True, it could happen to any fertile female having unprotected intercourse with someone stupid enough to practice the Pope's foolproof contraception plan applied to a situation (living humans having actual sex) that is outside the Pope's realm of acceptable behavior, i.e., sex between married couples for procreative purposes only.
trailer park trash in the governor's mansion.
Look, it's not Bristol's fault she has a narcissistic hateful mother. Bristol looks like she does understand that about Grandmother Palin. I don't know how Bristol kept from spitting out, "It's my interview, mother dearest".
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