---disclaimer, in Alaska only applies to right wing political bigshots and their brain dead finger puppet slogan trumps reality followers nation wide. It excludes jim and the rest of the honest people up there----
Sarah Palin's Outrageous Hypocrisy on Teen Sex
By Matt Taibbi, True/Slant. Posted May 27, 2009.
Palin knew her daughter was having sex in her own house. What does it take to get discredited as a right-wing "family values" merchant these days?
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So step right up and buy your Im SEXY enough to make you wait! t-shirts, courtesy of the Candies Foundation the pro-abstinence group whose ambassador is now Americas most famous Oh, fuck it, it feels better without the rubber Supermom, Bristol Palin!
So on a flight to London over the weekend I caught the Bristol Palin magazine cover and was blown away. What does it take to get discredited as a moralizing right-wing family values merchant these days?
It was one thing when we found out that super-religious governor Palin was letting Bristols hunkface beef accessory Levi nail her daughter more or less regularly under the family roof. It was another when we found out that the governors sister-in-law got popped for a B&E while her little daughter was waiting outside in the car. And it was still another thing when we found out that Levis Mom was going to eat a bust for dealing Oxycontin (and theres apparently a lot behind the governors interest in that story).
For the most part, none of this stuff is any of our business we all have family members with issues, although mine tend to leave their kids at home when they go out to commit burglaries to support their drug habits.
But this abstinence thing with Bristol, to me, is just too much. This sort of thing always grosses me out: this country has way too many people who do stuff like this, dragging their helpless minor kids with them on national media tours or publishing lengthy parenting memoirs in which their unwitting babies play starring roles as props in Moms narcissistic fantasies.
But this goes even beyond that. This poor little kid is going to grow up someday and find out shes been brand-marketed to the human species by Madison Avenue as The Great Mistake.
Bristols quote about how girls need to close their eyes and imagine spending the rest of their lives with a screaming baby before they have sex her daughter is someday going to cough that line up, through sobs, in her fourth or fifth year of very expensive therapy. If this little kid isnt hooked on black baggy clothes and cutting by age 11 Ill be shocked.
But beyond that, Bristols casual statement about deciding not to get married after all, about how it would have been a disaster, I just dont get how this works, politically. How can a Republican presidential candidate (and lets not fool ourselves, Sarah Palin is already that) publicly endorse unwed teen mothering? Am I missing something?
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