I have never been for McCain. I am supporting Cynthia McKinney of the Green Party, which has an even better prochoice platform than the Democrats.

One might overlook and even understand anti-choice types who want to draw a line somewhere else in the trimester scheme of Roe v. Wade, but there is nothing feminist about trying to force 12 year old girls to have their father's children. That is what Sara Palin is for. Do you research?

I am not interested in what she might do or might not do. Her on the record statements say plenty about what she would do if she had the power.

One heartbeat away from the presidency? NO WAY!

John McCain's pick of her is utterly cynical.

Theory: Sarah Palin sees nothing wrong with her pregnant teenage daughter marrying as a result of her accidental pregnancy because she herself was pregnant when she married Bristol's father. They wed on 8/29/88 and their son Track was born circa (oddly, all one can find online is a conjectured day of birth, which is very unusual–-although the month appears to be confirmed) 4/20/89. It's possible that he was just shy of exactly 8 months of gestation at birth, but my guess would be that they didn't (as the official spin goes) elope to avoid an expensive wedding–-they eloped because a pregnancy test came back positive.

Has anyone submitted "Free Levi" t-shirt?

Where in the world are you getting this bit about Palin wanting to outlaw abortion? Everything I've read about her indicates she is pro-life, but has shown absolutely no inclination to work toward repealing Roe v. Wade. I believe I read that, if anything, Palin believes the legality of abortion should be decided by individual states. Also, you're neglecting to address the very real possibility that Palin's daughter asked that her boyfriend (fiance?) appear at the convention with her. Would it be so surprising that a 17-year old girl whose private life already constitutes fish wrapping (a phenomenon enabled by Daily Kos - apparently with an assist from Axelrod) might desperately desire the physical presence of the father of her unborn child?

BTW, your last post seems a bit over the top for you. What happened?

....ah... great... drag the teen-aged "fucking redneck" kid in front of a national audience, right before his shotgun wedding..... jeez... talk about pandering to the redneck, white trash audience.

He's just a kid that messed around and knocked up his girlfriend. He didn't ask for, nor does he deserve to be mocked by thousands of people he doesn't know.

No wonder the red states thing we're a bunch of elitist jerks.

More like Secret Service nine mills.

I was pleased to see Senator Obama tell his supporters that Palin's daughter was off limits. Senator McCain should have told his people that.

Dragging Palin's pregnant daughter and baby-daddy to the convention? Trying to make political hay with pro-lifers, while choice, contraception, and sex-ed advocates are supposed to ignore them?

Shame!

This speaks for itself and needs no other comment from me:

washington post

Palin Slashed Funding for Teen Moms

By Paul Kane

ST. PAUL — Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, the Republican vice-presidential nominee who revealed Monday that her 17-year-old daughter is pregnant, earlier this year used her line-item veto to slash funding for a state program benefiting teen mothers in need of a place to live.

After the legislature passed a spending bill in April, Palin went through the measure reducing and eliminating funds for programs she opposed. Inking her initials on the legislation — “SP” — Palin reduced funding for Covenant House Alaska by more than 20 percent, cutting funds from $5 million to $3.9 million. Covenant House is a mix of programs and shelters for troubled youths, including Passage House, which is a transitional home for teenage mothers.

According to Passage House’s web site, its purpose is to provide “young mothers a place to live with their babies for up to eighteen months while they gain the necessary skills and resources to change their lives” and help teen moms “become productive, successful, independent adults who create and provide a stable environment for themselves and their families.”

Palin’s own daughter, Bristol, is five months pregnant and has plans to wed.

“Bristol and the young man she will marry are going to realize very quickly the difficulties of raising a child, which is why they will have the love and support of our entire family,” Palin said in a statement released by the McCain campaign. “We ask the media to respect our daughter and Levi’s privacy, as has always been the tradition of children of candidates.”

Earlier today the Associated Press reported that Sen. John McCain (Ariz.), the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, opposed funding to prevent teen pregnancies, a position that Palin also took as governor. “The explicit sex-ed programs will not find my support,” she wrote in a 2006 questionnaire distributed among gubernatorial candidates.

Reporters asked McCain in November 2007 whether he supported grants for sex education in the United States, whether such programs should include directions for using contraceptives and whether he supports President Bush’s policy of promoting abstinence.

“Ahhh, I think I support the president’s policy,” McCain said.

THIS is the issue. It is Palin's, and the party's choice to GLORIFY teen pregnancy as if it's something to be celebrated, to parade this poor girl and her dumb boyfriend around and applaud at how wonderful this walking argument against abstinence education is.

I do have to wonder if Mr. Johnston would be paraded around the convention if he weren't a good looking, good ol' boy athlete. If he were, for instance, an Alaskan native, or Asian, or some other minority. I'm sure it wouldn't make any difference at all. Who's with me?

What I don't wonder is whether Levi Johnston will come away with offers for a few plum sinecures after hobnobbing with party bigwigs. It seems clear that the True Believers love the VP nominee, and I'm sure more than a few will be willing to suck up by gainfully employing her soon-to-be son-in-law.