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The Leave Baby Alone Coalition

9.3.08 @ 12:01AM

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This is twice in less than a week now that the McCain campaign has bested the MSM at their own game. First they played them by stoking the VP pick possibilities for over a week and then when it reached a fever pitch out came Sarah Palin right after the Denver convention. As an encore they then handle the pregnancy story after the Palin pick attacks have been thoroughly commented on. I think the McCain campaign knows what they're doing and they demonstrated that in August.
-- Diamon Sforza
Bartlett, Illinois

I enjoyed Mr. McCain's take on the nomination of Gov. Palin and the possible ramifications especially related to the revelation that her oldest daughter is pregnant and engaged. Indeed there is the possibility that this situation will be exploited be the late night comics, the comedy central dynamic duo, and hyenas on MSNBC to the benefit of the Obamessiah. It also could backfire on these clowns and their chosen candidate as they wallow in their own muck.

Millions of us have teenage children, millions of us are doing the best we can to raise our children to make the right decisions, millions of us face the consequences of children who make mistakes (just as we did). The likelihood that these clowns will overstep, overstate, and end up embarrassing themselves by insulting average Americans is huge as they condescend to us bible clinging, gun toting types.

Sarah Palin will be a positive in this election process, highlighting what it means to truly be an intelligent, strong, liberated woman and a leader.

Let the hyenas cackle, it's what they do best.
-- Stuart Reed
Grosse Pointe Woods, Michigan

"Strange as it seems in this time of war and economic crisis, the tale of a pregnant teenager could determine who will be the next Leader of the Free World."

Thus the hazard to any politician whose teenage son or daughter could decide to go off the reservation. While the temptation may be overwhelming to blame his son or daughter's "misbehavior" on some flaw in one's opponent's character, this is easily a sword that can swing back at you the day when your child spends a night in jail after an evening's over exuberance.

In the case of Governor Palin's daughter, it is difficult to see how any Democrat can capitalize on this. Far, far too many of us in America have had our domestic tranquility disturbed by a teenage daughter's announcement of impending motherhood. There isn't any such parent who doesn't wonder what it was they had done or not done that lead to their daughter's "mistake." Eventually, most of us realized that whatever we had done wrong in raising our children, we didn't choose our daughter's mistake. She did.

After being upset and kicking the furniture for a few hours, the lion's share of parents change gears, forgive, and make good from a bad decision. They keep their daughter in their home, they taken her to the doctor, ands much of the time they are there with her in the birthing room because lover boy in nowhere around. These parents do this because they still genuinely love their daughter; but they also do it because they love their grandchildren -- even the grandchildren that they can't see yet.

But, if anyone trashes on Palin, they risk running afoul the sympathy of thousands of parents who've been in her shoes. (Not to mention the thousands of women who had once been that scared teenager.) Life has a way of putting us in places we didn't plan for and much of the time did not deserve. Those who try to score political points by pretending otherwise won't make many friends.
-- Mike Dooley

Mr. Robert McCain completely misses the point. I, and most of middle America with teenage daughters understand and sympathize with Ms. Palin's situation with her daughter. What is repugnant is what the mainstream media will do to push their partisan leftist agenda. Someone needs to ask them about Sen. Biden's son, or Obama's relationships with extreme leftists.

To quote Kristol who was pushing for Lieberman is laughable. Bill has long stopped representing the view of social conservatives. Do any of you pundits have a clue?

Mr. McCain, you and the press have crossed the line when you go after a seventeen year old to further your own positions. At the end of the day the comparison between Obama's view on infanticide and Palin's view of life will be interesting.
-- Bob Ross
Delafield, Wisconsin

Your article on Sarah Palin and her daughter is garbage.

It insults our intelligence.
-- Elvira F. Hasty

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