Girls Gone Wild!

[captainsblog]

In an effort to keep the discussion positive, here are the good things I've thought of coming out of today's announcement of Sarah Palin's soon-to-be bouncing baby grandkid:

* McCain election to result in Vice Presidential residence being moved from Naval Observatory to Tidal Basin Trailer Park, at substantial taxpayer savings

* Society event of the season: Bristol's shotgun wedding, complete with Dick Cheney wielding the shotgun

* Republicans now more willing to consider a timetable for pulling out

* Age of consent in District of Columbia to be lowered to 14, much to the relief of about half the current members of Congress

* McCain campaign issues helpful clarification that the slogan "Drill Now!" refers only to exploration in ANWR

* Jenna and Barbara Bush suddenly regarded as paragons of virtue

* Naming rights for new baby have potential to offset significant Obama fundraising lead

* Jerome Corsi launches "Swift Sperm for Truth" campaign to refute claims that Bristol's boyfriend fathered the child

* Palin's new son-in-law named "Mister Congeniality" at 2008 Mister Alaska beauty pageant;

And the tenth good thing about the pregnancy, not that this is a Top Ten List or anything....

* Three whole days without a single word about what immoral liberals the Democrats all are.

Comments

[whyaduck.livejournal.com]

Ooooh, so bad, yet so good.

Have a handbasket.

[miss-katelynne.livejournal.com]

* Republicans now more willing to consider a timetable for pulling out

It's a good thing I wasn't drinking or eating anything when I read that!!!

[headbanger118.livejournal.com]

She's a 17 yr-old that made a mistake. Much like the kids this Conservative worked with when a social worker. It happens. And this post seems a little beneath you captain.

And the immoral Dims? Mostly married and saying "F-off" to their vows. Yep, I see a difference.

[captainsblog.livejournal.com]

I'd be much more sympathetic to your points (and the kid's mistake) if the Republicans hadn't spent so much time staking out the moral high ground on stuff like this themselves.

Not two weeks ago, the entire right-wing establishment was excoriating John Edwards (who, last I checked, wasn't even RUNNING for anything) for his "mistake," to the extent of suggesting that his cancer-stricken wife wasn't doing a good enough job of servicing him.

And the paragon of virtue at the top of the GOP ticket? HE was among the chorus of unforgiving voices who made a two-year, $60 million circus of a show trial against Clinton over the sexual "mistake" that HE made. McCain had no problem turning it against Clinton's then 13-year-old daughter in a speech to Republican loyalists that he's gotten a total pass for.

I'm familiar with "let he who is without sin cast the first stone," but let the record reflect that the author of that quote was Jesus, not the head of the Pharisees who'd been gathering the biggest rocks in the previous verse.

[headbanger118.livejournal.com]

I absolutely agree that Chelsea Clinton, as well as any other child of a candidate or sitting official should be off limits. I was quite disappointed with how she was treated at the time, even by "Saturday Night Live," much less by the GOP.