So, I log onto aol.com to check my mail - by the way, I hate aol.com's main page with the white hot intenisty of a million suns - when it's not celebrity horsecrap or "top 10 embarassing moments with a cell phone" ("OMG! I wrote a nasty text message to my ex-boyfriend and I sent it to my dad!"), there is right wing crap like this:
"A Family Drama Plyed Out in Public", with a picture of Sarah Palin lovingly holding her beloved daughter, looking concerned.
What a bunch of crap.
Maybe I'm, being paranoid, but this looks like it might be Rove's master stroke. McCain picks a vice presidential candidate facing an ethics violation investigation AND has a pregnant teenage daughter. Troopergate leaks out first, so now everyone knows about that, so he has an excuse to get rid of her. Now, the baby comes out. McCain now has the opportunity to dump her for a legitimate reason, but everyone ELSE will think he was doing it because he was being pressured by left-wing scandal-muckers turning their despicable tactics on an innocent 17-year-old girl who made a mistake, and don't we all make mistakes?! If he keeps her, he's a hero for doing it (although, I really don't expect him to), and if he doesn't, it's because the political bullies in the loony left blogosphere forced him to abandon a perfectly good candidate.
(And if you don't think the Right Wing can convince the people of this country that Sarah Palin was a perfectly good candidate - once she's out of sight, of course - I have to wonder what country you have been living in.)
By the way, at what point do we get to start screaming "Right Wing Media Bias"? I mean seriously, we can't let the right continue to bully the media further and further towards Fox. Imagine how the media would have reacted if BARACK OBAMA had had a 17-year-old pregnant daughter! I don't even have to describe it, you're seeing it in your heads right now, aren't you? AREN'T YOU?
Troopergate is history now. It's Gone, Baby, Gone (just saw that the other day for the first time - excellent movie - one of the best I've seen in years, probably 3rd behind No Country and There WIll Be Blood). This new story has sex and teenagers involved, so everyone will talk about it, because who doesn't love talking about sex and teenagers? And they'll get to show their moral superiority by saying nobody should be talking about it, when they, in fact, are the ones who will not shut up about it! This will mean that the media will "have" to cover it - although, if you think Wolf Blitzer likes to talk about sex and teenagers any less than you or I, you are mistaking him for a robot, or perhaps Mr. Spock. And now, we have a perfect circle. The media blames the public, the public blames the media, and everyone gets laid, because the adults have riled themselves up talking about sex and teenagers all day. Viva Viagra!
If Barack Obama had a pregnant teenaged daughter, the media would call it a parenting failure. And you know what? It would have been, just like it is with Sarah Palin. And every other teenaged pregnancy. And I'm sorry if anyone with a pregnant kid is reading this, but it means you made a mistake.
That is not a MORAL FAILING. A mistake isn't a moral failing, it is a mistake. It is not a measure of your value as a human being, it is a mistake. And everybody DOES make mistakes. Some people's are just bigger than others.
But when you have a COMMUNITY making the same mistake in large numbers, there IS a systematic failure there, and it needs to be addressed. Kids in red states are more likely to get pregnant. They are more likely to get divorced, and more likely to get bad grades, miss out on college, and wind up in poverty.
AND IT'S BECAUSE OF PEOPLE LIKE SARAH PALIN! A woman who has devoted her entire political career to ensuring that teenagers know nothing about sex! And when her backwards agenda makes a victim of her own daughter, she shotguns her to the groom (I wouldn't doubt literally) to further her own career. Nice!
But I really want to talk about TrooperGate. This is something else.
So Sarah Palin tries to get her brother-in-law fired, because he is in a custody battle with her sister. When his boss boss refuses to fire him, she FIRES HIS BOSS. This is absolutely outrageous.
If a man isn't getting along with you sister, you don't fire him. You don't take away his livlihood, his ability to put food on the table, in all probability his self-esteem (if you know any state troopers, how proud are they of this fact?), and his ability to provide for YOUR NEPHEWS AND NIECES! What is important here is that what is done is best for the children. And by the way, how much do you think the fired guy will have with which to write child support payment checks? And how much better off will the children be, self-image wise, if they know their dad is a state trooper, rather than unemployed and unemployable in the state of Alaska, lest the psycho governor comes after you? How will the children of your sister benefit, by you pursuing a course of venegance? AND WHAT THE HELL KIND OF EXAMPLE DOES THAT SET, for them, or for the citizens of the state which you are SUPPOSED to be leading?
Sarah Palin is the most morally repugnant human being (in the scientific sense) the right wing has ever produced. She is the daughter of Dick Chaney and Evil. A Palin administration would make the Bush Administration look like happy time in the daises. We must do everything in our power to make sure this horrible person does not come within 1,000 miles of the White House.
And John McCain must be destoryed in this upcoming election. I don't want a mere win - I want a 10 point victory. More money, more volunteering, more get out the vote. More, more, more.