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I'm fresh from reading the local letters to the editor in Memphis, Tennessee, and as I predicted, Bristol's pregnancy hasn't hurt Palin's image a bit.
That's because all Conservatives already have pregnant teen daughters, multiple divorces, and someone sitting down in the next stall observing their "wide stance." They don't judge - except when Liberals do these things.
See, the thing about authoritarians is that if you ask them anonymously, they will share that they are desperately afraid God doesn't exist, they have no willpower, and they need the State to force them to behave because they know they can't do it without outside help. Liberals are less panicky. Most of them either honestly believe or honestly don't believe in God, mostly keep the promises they make (the state with the lowest rate of divorce in the nation is New Hampshire), and can either choose or not choose to participate in sex, drugs, and rock and roll without anyone holding a gun to their heads. This makes it hard for Liberals to understand the terror of Republicans, who honestly believe based on their own observed depravity that if people are allowed to do as they want, the world will come to an end.
