Bristol Palin Shocker: Baby's Father Revealed!

Oh. My. God.

REUTERS -- The father of the unborn baby being carried by the 17-year-old daughter of Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin is God, Palin said Tuesday in a statement released by the campaign of Republican presidential candidate John McCain.

The unexpected revelation, coming just one day after announcing that Alaska Gov. Palin's daughter Bristol Palin is about five months pregnant, is intended to knock down criticism of the McCain campaign's vetting process, while cementing Gov. Palin's own standing with the Republican Party's influential evangelical base. "We have been blessed with five wonderful children," the Palin's statement said, "And soon we will all be blessed with this miraculous birth."

"Bristol and God 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. We ask the media to respect our daughter and God's privacy as has always been the tradition of children of candidates."

An aide to Arthur Culvahouse, the chair of McCain's vice presidential search committee, has confirmed that the campaign was aware of Bristol Palin's condition before tapping her mother as a running mate, but considers virgin conception a "private, personal and religious matter" that would not impact Gov. Palin's ability to carry out her duties.

In other news, the New York Post has found God's MySpace page, where he describes himself as a "fucking redneck" who "lives to play hockey." He also claims to be "in a relationship," but states, "I don't want kids."

Which I suppose explains what happened to Jesus.

[David Goldstein blogs on WA state politics at HorsesAss.org]

Comments

[zedthewizard]

they told her the media would be unrelenting. palin had a choice as did her child. it's just everyone else had a choice. obama was vetted by 18 million votes of his, and those that cast the vote for hillary. the media, the right wing, etc. this guy has it. does palin?

[EdwinInTampa]

(cont.)

Christ was the first to advocate a separation of church and state when he declared "Render unto Caesar the things which are Caesar’s, and unto God the things that are God’s" (Matthew 22:21, see also John 18:36). Don't you dare use him to hide your lack of integrity,­self-refle­ction, and moral courage. Not even someone who Christian Fundamentalists believe is fit to run the country and pick Supreme Court justices; who embodies their "Christian Values"; is able to keep her adolescent daughter abstinent. If you don't want people to look at how well the politics that puts "abstinence-only education" ahead of adolescent welfare worked out for your daughter, do us all a favor, mind your own business and remember your oath to uphold the Constitution means real American patriots would sooner die than allow their or anyone else's religious-only beliefs to be forced onto others.

[MeiLing]

Amen! Brother!

[EdwinInTampa]

People are not attacking Palin's daughter, they are rightly pointing out the hypocrisy of a Republican establishment that has advanced the politics of character assassination and undermined the Freedom of Religion in pursuit of power. The internet should be replete with apologies from Republicans for allowing their party to bludgeon and litmus test fellow Americans with some Biblical passages when politically expedient, while not doing so with other passages like those on fidelity, fornication, shell fish, swine, and indentured servitude. Christian Fundamentalists in the Republican Party and Media that want to impose their particular religious interpretations on others can't have it both ways:

Either, a pregnancy is a personal matter SEPARATE from government (as most open minded freedom loving Americans argue), or it isn't.

Christian Fundamentalists want to impose non-medica­l/religiou­s-only beliefs on people outside of their church in a nation where your pledge of allegiance means you swear not to do that. By advocating the imposition of her spirituality into law, Palin invited us to do something we shouldn't have to: to examine the consequences of the imposition of Palin's religious beliefs on those of us who don't share those beliefs. Hypocrites deserve worse than being put in front of a mirror that reflects all the "family values"/"I'm more Christian than you" that were used to distract the nation from a rational and substantiated discussion on issues that are most deserving of our attention.