Still the funniest line in Television. 

CNN:  The most busted name in news.

PHILLIPS: Now the unknown. Will the revelation of Bristol's pregnancy impact the McCain campaign, if at all?

Phillips...yep...wait and watch...there is going to be such a backlash to all of you in the msm you aren't going to know what hit you...

It's called the voters...you know...the real people out here.

 "America isn't the problem...America is the solution." ~ Rush Limbaugh

Point One - It is infallible. Unlike "birth control" components, abstinence  works 100%, every time.

Point Two - We've had "sex education" now for what - 30 years? Considering the teen pregnacy numbers, even in their dimished sense, it appears, that like all Liberalite "education" measures - the program is a dismal failure.  Fire the Teachers Unions - take back our schools - nullify the Marxist maxim - "Go for the robes."

Here we have a child - 17 years old, unwed and pregnant.  Her OWN mother has knowingly allowed her to be made a spectacle in the global media.  She knew she couldn't keep the girl's condition secret, no matter what, if she accepted the VP offer.  Yet she, her husband AND that paragon of character and virtue, McCain, allowed her to be dragged through the media, adding unspeakably to the trauma she was already in.

And the GOP, at the convention, calls that good.  Her mother has "principles."  She sure does - bornagain, judgmental principles, and that poor child is probably being subjected to hell on earth in the privacy of her home.  It can't be any other way.  Their faith requires brutal castigation of a "fallen woman."

But that wasn't all they did.  They then got up before the whole world, saying how "forgiving and tolerant" they were and how much "family solidarity" they had.  They first subjected this CHILD to horrific media exposure of her embarrassment on a VERY intimate and personal matter, they then USED it, actually exploited it, for the sake of "public image."  And the GOP is raving with praise of Sarah Palin.

This is exploitation of the worst kind.  Callous and cruel to this child - beyond belief!

They're USING her plight for a "public image" that pleases the religious right.  THOSE people know full well how their religion requires Palin and her husband to treat this child - in private - and they applaud it.  But they, too, support the image of a family with "strong solidarity, tolerance and forgiveness."  In a pig's eye.

This was pure, extremely public, CHILD ABUSE!  Bristol is a minor; she can't give "permission" to her mom to accept the VP slot.  What she needed was her parents' protection.  It was her mother's duty, the PRIME DIRECTIVE of any parent, to protect her.  Even if it meant refusing the VP slot.  Her child either comes first or she doesn't.  Seems she doesn't.

Instead, the people she knew, loved, trusted and needed most betrayed and abandoned her needs at a time when she needed THEM the most.  It's despicable.

Cruelty.

I don't care what method people choose to try avoiding teen pregnancies - NONE of them works well at all.  Short of total sequestration, there will always be some.  Full information is the best anyone can do.  But I don't need to diss Sarah Palin for keeping her child in ignorance, or for demanding that an innocent child know and accept this kind of ADULT consequence - and refrain, on religious values alone.  It isn't necessary.  Because she did something vastly worse.

She was deliberately cruel to her child.  Publicly.

I can't even imagine Obama considering such behavior.  His family, his fatherhood, comes first.  And he is fiercely protective of his two little girls.  Sarah Palin threw HER little girl to the media wolves, and for what?  Her ambition.

This is what she calls "family values"?   This is what the GOP regards as "character"?  Yeah, she has principles all right, and she walks the talk - of abuse to her own child because her vile, judgmental GOD, and her ambition, made it expedient.

Having "principles" only means something when you know what those principles ARE.  Palin's are pro-ambition (hers), anti-women's rights (including her daughter's), and twisted, sick integrity (using a child for political collateral).

Even animals protect their young.  It is supposed to be a strong basic instinct in us, too, to protect our own - particularly children.

Sarah Palin, her husband and John McCain USED a child's torment and trauma for their own ends.  None of them is fit to rule a kitten, much less run a nation.  We already have a consummately cruel president.  We do NOT need another, either McCain or, if he dies, Palin.

I've never heard of such unspseakable - public - cruelty to an innocent child.  Poor little kid.  I'm just glad she wasn't MY mother when this same thing happened to ME.  After having my condition broadcast around the world, I'm not sure I could have emerged from it with my mind still laced together.  I hope Bristol will survive this with her mind intact.

On another forum even a 12-year-old girl wrote that she hurts for Bristol and thinks her parents STINK.  She's right.  Good for her.  She knows how another child must feel, and she got online and TOLD us adults so.  She defended another vulnerable child, magnificently.

These people knew it would come out, knew what it could do to the girl, and PLANNED a strategy to use it for Palin's "public image!"  And, to the mindblown of the GOP, whose own morality leaves everything to be desired, they are now heroes!

I think I'm going to be sick.  Unprincipled as the GOP is, even though they Swiftboat people, launch cheats and smears, fix elections and lie like rugs, even I didn't think them capable of sinking this low.  I'm beyond shocked and appalled.  There IS no word for what I feel.

Poor little kid.