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Hurricane Bristol hits Minnesota Republicans try to brush off the tempest over Sarah Palin's pregnant daughter and turn that other storm in Louisiana into a political prop.
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  • You pathetic Journalsimist.

    You sir, have the maturity of a 10 year old on prozac, welbutrin and amphetamines.

    Is that sleaze bag Schaller sharing with you?

  • Here is a perfect example for you folks: rupert_c

    L'il rupert is actually replying to an thread in a completely different article.

    He so lost, l'il bunny.

  • @alllie

    I have to agree a bit.

    Here is my scenario.

    Palin family is falling apart since Mom became obsessed with her political career. Hubby threatens to leave, but she hangs on to him, and although there has been no sex for a good while, it happens this time and there is no contraception and by sheer bad luck she is pregnant and to make things worse, the fetus has Down syndrome.

    Mom is highly pro-life. We don't know why. Maybe she had some experience with abortion in her past.

    My sister is a physician and for many years ran a birth control clinic. She became accidentally pregnant and considered abortion, but didn't. Now she is strongly anti-abortion because she realises she nearly lost a wonderful daughter. This may not make a lot of sense, but that is how real-life people are. Maybe something similar with Palin.

    Meanwhile daughter is equally pissed off with mom's obsession with politics and deliberately gets knocked up for attention.

    As stated, these far right wingers are so screwed up that their attempts to regulate others are often suppressed attempts at self regulation of what they fear the most.

    Probably the enthusiasm for killing animals is equally an attempt to keep her hunter-fisher husband interested and she would really prefer to be keeping a tank full of goldfish babies, as my wife is.

  • @ NotOrbitBoy

    I don't know if Trig is Sarah's baby or Bristol's. The rumors have been refuted in a less-than-convincing fashion and it is startling the way the governor took her daughter's very private situation public.

    I do know that Sarah Palin's behavior and appearance in the short-time preceding the birth are difficult to explain. We need more information if she plans to run for national office. We don't need this type of bizarre soap opera in the highest offices in the land. And it does matter that Senator McCain took such a cavalier approach to the vetting process. It is becoming increasingly clear that he can not be trusted to take important decisions seriously.

    The McCain campaign failed to vet her properly so that is taking place in distributed fashion on the Internet and in public. I agree with you that it's an ugly process.

  • Bristol's pregnancy!

    For us older people, how well we remember the rise of the far left liberals in the mid-60's with the help of the anti-war protestors with college professor support.

    This is when our great country threw all morality out the window. Group sex, promotion of drug use, anti-war, anti-government and on and on became popular. I was in my 30's. Those of you who can't get nasty enough over such things as Britol's pregnancy are the ultimate in gutter thinking and in many cases the language you use goes with it.

    Obama has been made into a Hollywood figure whose aura seems to even match that not only of the elite of hollywood but perhaps Jesus himself. Talk about Bristol, how would you people going crazy defend the Ultra rich hollywood elite who probably average going through at least 3-4 different spouses and crawling in bed with many more?

    How would you like to follow the genealogy of the children of your hollywood hero's.

    Oh yes, you seem to overlook President Clinton's playboy antics.

    You are all people with so much hate against anyone who disagrees with you that I hope you all end up with ulcers.

    For you vicious anti-war people. Perhaps (I know you can't) you could ponder how many countries (where we get out oil) would be under Saddam's control today.

    I know you don't remember, but we lost 55,000 precious soldiers in Viet Nam compared to less than 4,000 in this war plus between one and two millions Cambodiams were slaughtered after pulled out. We didn't lose the war militarily, we lost it because of the radical liberals in our nation then as today.

  • @morefunky: cold shower time, babe

    The reason we're in the state we're in is because of insane war mongers and sexually-fearful people like you.

    I lived through the sixties too. There was little group sex and much less drug use than hysterics like you claim.

    What there was were whole cohorts of people seeking new ways, better ways of living. Like in all experiments, some were dead ends and some were revolutionary.

    Then, fearful, xenophobic people like you did everything you could do to crush everything good that came out of it.

    And look where it got you. You are disrespected and have earned the contempt of your own countrymen and women. You are the laughingstock of your international neighbors. You are unfit for duty, civic or military.

    It's a shame, really.

  • McCain on Self-Destruct Mode - A Tisket, a Tasket -- He lost it - He lost it

    McCain should refrain from accusing democrats of a smear campaign. It certainly appears there is nothing the democrats can do to degrade McCain's candidacy more than he is inflicting upon himself. McCain is doing an excellent job of destroying his chances for the presidency. We don't need to be the proverbial fly on the wall to imagine what Romney, Hutchinson, Liebermann and even Bush might be saying right this moment: "Is he out of his [blank, blank] mind!!! Perhaps Hurricane Bristol is an omen to the republicans. Will the week end with the GOP's sanctioning of this doomed team?

  • Credit where credit is due

    Sarah knew the challenges she was facing within her family, and she went ahead and staked her career on standing up for what she believes, and lives. She is not afraid, and should be praised for her courage.

  • The central fact of the Sixties

    morefunky: For us older people, how well we remember the rise of the far left liberals in the mid-60's with the help of the anti-war protestors with college professor support.

    This is when our great country threw all morality out the window...

    The central fact of the Sixties was the Civil Rights movement. What they threw out of the window then was state racism, legal discrimination and the sanctity of the image of the White Man and his endless wars. Now, some people called those things 'morality'. That what you're talking about?

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