Republican Family Values

MANIFESTO

Just to follow up on Drift's post below ...

Gov. Go-go has apparently long held to the notion that abstinence is the only viable method of birth control while promoting the type of evangelical family values that are too familiar to all of us. Yet, in the statement she and her husband have released, they promise their love and support of their sexually active 17-year-old daughter. Typically, these Republicans have found that it's only other people they'd like to skewer with their puritanical ideas and their own kin can look forward to support whenever they might wander.

Two more things:

It's ludicrous to believe that Senator Septuagenarian has any intelligence when this disaster waiting to happen was named (obviously without any vetting to speak of) on Friday. (Or, as Steve Benen says, "John McCain's judgment is so comically flawed, the prospect of his presidency is starting to become quite literally frightening.") Nevertheless, the senator's manifest stupidity won't make any difference to too many Americans.

It's apparently problematic whether this is Bristol Palin's first or second pregnancy.