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There is a blatant contradiction between the Palin's request to leave their children (well, Bristol) out of the campaign and then turning around - if this is really true - and bringing Levi Johnston to the campaign trail.
Or is there?
This is what it tells me. The request to MYOB is addressed to one group: the mean "liberal" media, the Obama campaign and its supporters. Levi Johnston's purported summons is on behalf of another group: the conservative religious voters whose misgivings about the circumstances surrounding Bristol Palin's pregnancy actually concern Palin and McCain.
I don't think Palin cares two hoots whether Obama voters and the cruel "liberal" media call her on this contradiction or question her position on sex education given her daughter's pregnancy.
But she (or rather the campaign) does worry that those voters whose votes she's on the ticket to ensure might wonder about the morals in the Palin household. Levi Johnston must appear and show himself to be a nice, white, cleancut young man who was a little naughty but is now going to do the responsible thing.
I suppose it will be effective, too.
