In case anyone's missed it, Sarah Palin is McCain's running mate.

[Swatopluk]

But she has foreign policy experience! She lives in a state bordering Russia!!
That's not a joke. Someone actually used that argument 

Cindy McCain!! I saw a video...the phrase Mindless Twit kept running through my mind, along with WATCH OUT FOR THAT BOOTOX, GIRLFRIEND!! 

The first one seems to have been Doocy on Faux News (and friends).
There is speculation (since now the Son of Cain's <c-word> has taken it up) that the GOP actually tries to make a meme out of that.

[Sibling Zono (anon1mat0)]

Which proves the perceived IQ of the average voter, IOW it may work. 

[Swatopluk]

If on the other hand she sopke Russian that would make her a likely KBG mole

[Sibling Zono (anon1mat0)]

FSB, they changed their name the same way Phillip Morris is now Altria 

[Swatopluk]

But what GOP voter* would know that? They wouldn't even recognize VCK, GPU or NKWD.
FSB would probably seen as Flying Spaghetti Ball or the abbreviation for some sports team.

*or other normal people for that matter

[pieces o nine]

But what GOP voter* would know that? They wouldn't even recognize VCK, GPU or NKWD.
FSB would probably seen as Flying Spaghetti Ball or the abbreviation for some sports team.

*or other normal people for that matter

I've been trying to educate selected family members about another acronym -- PNAC -- and *why* its people members are a festering, ongoing problem. I get the impression that they honestly think I am making it up.

[ivor]

I'm sure they are counting on that.

[Sibling Zono (anon1mat0)]

To compound the CV of Mrs Palin it now transpires that her teenage daughter is pregnant.  I wonder how will the media treat this one. 

[anthrobabe]

To compound the CV of Mrs Palin it now transpires that her teenage daughter is pregnant.  I wonder how will the media treat this one. 

So far it has been very interesting to say the least--- the spin begins

I think Pres. Obama put it right --- go here--- War Room

or this excerpt here
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama responded in Monroe, Mich., today about the news that Bristol Palin, daughter of Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin, is pregnant:

"Let me be a clear as possible: I have said before and I will repeat again, I think people's families are off limits, and people's children are especially off limits. This shouldn't be part of our politics. It has no relevance to Gov. Palin's performance as governor, or her potential performance as a vice president.

"And so I would strongly urge people to back off these kinds of stories. You know my mother had me when she was 18, and how a family deals with issues and, you know, teenage children, that shouldn't be the topic of our politics and I hope that anybody who is supporting me understands that's off limits." end excerpt from Salon dot Com

I was 17 and pregnant and gasp--not married to the boy myself once upon a time- it is truly no reflection on my mother-then or now. My mother did not impregnate me-- Joey did with my enthusiastic assistance  . 

Naturally the right to lifers are gleeful because it shows just how committed to 'the cause of no reproductive rights' she is.

[Sibling Zono (anon1mat0)]

...and how well the 'abstinence only' education works or the moral high ground embossed in the classical 'Do as I/we say not as I/we do'...

[Scriblerus the Philosophe]

...
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama responded in Monroe, Mich., today about the news that Bristol Palin, daughter of Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin, is pregnant:

"Let me be a clear as possible: I have said before and I will repeat again, I think people's families are off limits, and people's children are especially off limits. This shouldn't be part of our politics. It has no relevance to Gov. Palin's performance as governor, or her potential performance as a vice president.

Hm, certainly not something the other side has listened to. They've all been on about how Obama has 18 siblings and how he doesn't send them all money and lets them live in Nairobi squalor ("hut-sweet-hut" as Limbaugh put it).

I personally find it mildly amusing--the uber-Christian's little girl is having a bastard child (though I agree with Obama, to be honest).

[anthrobabe]

...and how well the 'abstinence only' education works or the moral high ground embossed in the classical 'Do as I/we say not as I/we do'...

Exactly

snip

Hm, certainly not something the other side has listened to. They've all been on about how Obama has 18 siblings and how he doesn't send them all money and lets them live in Nairobi squalor ("hut-sweet-hut" as Limbaugh put it).

Limbaugh is a __________________. But karma is a biotch and she has her eye on him.
I personally find it mildly amusing--the uber-Christian's little girl is having a bastard child (though I agree with Obama, to be honest).

Of course it is funny---- watching the holier than thou's squirm and all.

[Bob in a quantum-state-of-faith]

Actually, I do NOT agree with Obama on this one.

The Republicans will not behave with equal decorum-- just look!

The Democrats need to hammer this issue home, over and over and over.

If you are gonna wrestle with a pig, you are gonna get mud all over yourself-- if you wish to win.  Trying to stay above the mud?  You may as well throw in the towel now... you will loose.

History teaches this lesson, and hard.   Anyone remember the phrase "Swift Boat"?

[Swatopluk]

But one should go for sarah's jugular, not her daughter's.

Also she is fair game for her connection to the secessionist Alaskan Independence Party that states on its introduction page:

"I'm an Alaskan, not an American. I've got no use for America or her damned institutions."

[ivor]

I have to agree with Bob. If it was Chelsy Clinton that was pregnant Rush Limbaugh, et al would be all over her ready to burn her at the stake.

I don't like it, but it's true.