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As a Democrat, I am so glad the hypocritical bumbling of the Republicans, which they have gotten by with for 30 years--yes, I include good old Ron, who started the entire show--is out in the open and they are paying. Of course, the bumbling was also accompanied by tremendous corruption and venality, the real problem.
Sure, the evangelicals will forget these minor moral slights of Sarah ,or better, slights in parenting by super-ambitious and cannon-loose on the deck Sarah-Mom. No,teenage pregnancy is not inevitable and usually it requires some egregious inattention or plain bad parenting by the so-called adults.
I am sorry for Sarah´s daughter. Whether you have the child, or
have an abortion, the experience cuts short childhood and creates emotional difficulties that sometimes take many years to overcome.
I am a man, but I know a little. My step-daughter started going off the tracks at 15 and the next two years were very difficult for me, my then wife and my step-daughter. We avoided an early pregnancy and more important dissolution by a lot of love and hard work, by making my stepdaughter Job I. I was the bad guy for my stepdaughter for awhile but 8 years later my stepdaughter is an achieving and successful grown-up, still adventurous, with a clear vision. We share a lot of love and I am grateful.
In any normal campaign, this family mess, which deserves our sympathy, would immediately disqualify the Mom from any consideration as the leader of our land because of its proof of thoughtlessness and lack of care on the part of the Mom. Not that this could not be overcome through time and proof of constancy over time. But this cannot be kicked under the rug.
If John McCain knew about this and still chose Sarah as his running mate, this is clear proof of his defective judgment.
