Governor "Abstinence-Education-Works" Palin

[einstein9073]

I feel compelled to point out two things. maybe a third.

1. Governor Palin firmly supports abstinence-only sex education.
   
2. Governor Palin's 17-year-old unmarried daughter is pregnant.

THIS IS HOW ABSTINENCE EDUCATION WORKS. RESULTS IN YOUR OWN HOUSE

Comments

[tleberle]

Joe will get his own in a bit, but I'm compelled to reply to the comment. How does Governor Palin's daughter's action make the Governor a hypocrite? It means that Bristol is a poor decision maker, and nothing more.

For that matter, Bristol's decision has zero to do with the proceedings, though the mainstream media would like you to think otherwise. Everyone who buys into these silly non-issues is playing right into the liberal media's plan.

lol "liberal media"

[einstein9073]

1. lol "liberal media"

2. the fact of Bristol's pregnancy is proof that abstinence-only education does not work.
That Governor Palin continues to advocate abstinence-only education after being presented with this indisputable evidence in her own home shows her to be either:

1. a hypocrite, or
2. too stupid to breathe.

other data supports choice b, but I'll get into that in a bit.

Re: lol "liberal media"

[tleberle]

I can't really respond to "lol", because I don't know what you're laughing out loud at.

But I'll say this. I have remained abstinent for 28 years. I am also child-less. Clearly, abstinence only sex education works. At least according to your yardstick.

Frankly, I'm not interested in discussing the candidates if you're going to characterize someone as "too stupid to breathe," even if you disagree with her passionately. But you've committed a logical fallacy in connecting abstinence only teaching with a single student and then characterizing it with failure.

[tleberle]

I covered the non-issue part with Sylvia, but if you want to continue, I'll happily bring up the John Edwards affair affair, or the fact that Barack Obama probably hasn't seen his daughters for more than an hour at a time in the last two years.

On the second part, what you're not seeing (through either the blue-colored glasses, or something else) is that Governor Palin has an 80%+ approval rating. You can't get that kind of backing without doing lots of stuff right. And she has. One other thing she has going for her: relatability. Women look at a working mother of five and say "Wow, that's me!". They don't do that when seeing Hillary Clinton screech about whatever.

If you want to pick apart the supposed character flaws of Sarah Palin because it advances your own ends, that's fine, but I'm more than happy to bring it from the other side, too.

[farren_bronaugh]

Depends on what McCain wanted to accomplish, really. From what I've been reading, his pick of Palin is energizing the conservative base, which he desperately needed (given Obama's base support). Granted, picking someone like Huckabee probably would have accomplished the same thing.

Rest assured McCain's goal was probably *not* "convince people like you and me to vote for him by picking Palin."