Palin-drama: Is Teen Marriage Best for the Coming Child?

First of all, I was a McCain Supporter ... until he chose Sarah Palin as his running mate. My reservations about Sarah Palin have nothing to do with the fact that she has young kids. I admire the fact that she is doing her bit to "go forth and multiply" and populate Alaska :-). My real problem with Sarah Palin is that she is a hypocrite. On the one hand, she appeals to Christian conservatives with her "family values" pitch but on the other.. she seems to be running a marathon to break most of the 10 commandments over and over and over again. She has admitted to smoking dope, she had her first child 8 months after she got married - you do the math, she has used the powers of her political office to settle personal scores with members of her extended family, she is using state funds to pay someone who is essentially her family lawyer to represent her in court, she wants to defile Alaskan wilderness with by allowing her friends in the oil lobby to drill oil wells there (showing her total lack of regard for God's will for us to protect and preserve tha habitat that He has blessed us with), and she lies through her teeth when it comes to throwing unfounded accusations against her opponents - republicans and democrats alike. Some of my friends from church think she sets a very bad role model for young women - by having engaged in premarital sex herself (which is not something my pastor would approve of) and celebrating her young daughter's choice to do the same; and by choosing to bring a child with Down Syndrome into this world by choosing to have unprotected sex while in in her 40's when she ought to know better!

Jill Thomas of AZ 8:02PM September 04, 2008

You hypocrites sicken me. You'll be the first to put down Sarah and her daughter, yet you'll pick up the next issue of Star, Gossip Alley, Enquirer, etc, and fan through the pages to catch the next glimpse of Paris Hilton, Britney, or some other "Idol" out there. Give it a rest! What a joke! Hypocrites!

sdavis of OK 4:42PM September 04, 2008

She is an Republican as well!!! Failed policies all over again!!!

Ned of 11:10PM September 03, 2008

I am glad to see someone finally questioning Sarah Palin on this. It would seem obvious that her daughter is being pressured at a young age into becoming an adult. Marriage without love is like a house built on a swamp. It is bound to sink into the mud over time.

The idea that this makes Mrs. Palin more approachable and understandable to the public is absurd. This makes it clear that she is a politician through and through. She treats her own family as prop for her ambition, just as she changed her tune on earmarks once she had left the mayor's office and saw the political winds of change. She has taken the position that was helpful to her at the moment after years of paying Washington lobbyists to bring back millions of dollars of pork-barrel spending for her town of under 7,000.

Rob of CO 12:25PM September 03, 2008