So, I go away for less than 24 hours...
...and all hell breaks loose.
It's funny - last night I was at my brother-in-law's mildly buzzed and enjoying the evening, and I had a thought about what was going on with this race while I was drinking beer and stuff. Imagine my surprise when I got in the truck to come home this morning and found out about
The 17-year-old daughter of Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin is pregnant, Palin said Monday in an announcement intended to knock down rumors by liberal bloggers that Palin faked her own pregnancy to cover up for her child.
Bristol Palin, one of Alaska Gov. Palin's five children with her husband, Todd, is about five months pregnant and is going to keep the child and marry the father, the Palins said in a statement released by the campaign of Republican presidential candidate John McCain.
Bristol Palin made the decision on her own to keep the baby, McCain aides said.
Not only that, but Greg at TPM-EC reports that Palin may belong to a group that wants Alaska to secede from the US - and at the very least, addressed their convention this year.
No wonder the GOP is 'scaling back' their convention. Governor Quayle-With-Tits is rapidly turning into a much bigger embarrassment than we ever could have hoped for.
Invictus wonders: Would the right have exercised any restraint had Chelsea Clinton -- who was 17 during her father's second term -- been pregnant in 1997? Any guesses? And while I'm on it, I can't help but notice that the press release quotes the Palins (emph. mine): "We’re proud of Bristol’s decision to have her baby...". No mention of the fact that the "decision" Bristol got to make is one that a McCain/Palin administration would fight tooth and nail to extinguish. Maybe they should have reworked that part of the release.