Baby Mama Drama: GOP Shot-Gun Weddings, Oh My!

Unwed pregnant teens, redneck baby daddys, shot gun weddings -- are these the corner stones of GOP family values? In case you didn't hear, John McCain's baked Alaskan has a pop tart. Yes, Sarah Palin's 17-year-old daughter Bristol is unwed and five-months pregnant, by Levi Johnston, who describes himself at My Space as "a fuckin' redneck who likes to snowboard and ride dirt bikes." Doesn't he sound like every good Christian Evangelical parent's dream?

VP hopeful Palin put out a statement after the internet buzzed with questions about whether her fifth child was actually her daughter's child: "Our beautiful daughter Bristol came to us with news that as parents we knew would make her grow up faster than we had ever planned. We're proud of Bristol's decision to have her baby and even prouder to become grandparents."

The baby daddy, Levi, is 17 and entering his senior year at Wassila High School. More on his My Space page: He boasts, "Ya fuck with me I'll kick ya ass." As an insight to how he will support his young family he shares, "I live to play hockey. I like to go camping and hang out with the boys, do some fishing, shoot some shit and just fuckin' chillin' I guess." As mayor of Wassila, it's evident from Levi's writing skills and her daughter's good judgment, that Sarah Palin spent more time perfecting her moose pie than stressing sex education or the three R's.

The baby daddy also shares this thought at My Space: "I don't want kids." The news that Bristol was, of course, practicing abstinence-only birth control must have come as a shock to the soon-to-be other "dude" of the Palin clan. The little polar bear in the oven must have come as a surprise, too, but not as much as the fact that there was a wedding in the works and that he was the groom. "Ya fuck with me I'll kick ya ass... or maybe not." I'm baffled at the McCain camp and the GOP's promotion of Ms. Palin as a commander in chief when there's no doubt that if this were a revelation from a Democratic candidate -- and particularly a black candidate -- imagine the uproar over what a bad example they set for youth and parents of America.

What hypocrisy! What blatant duplicity! Where are all the right wing moralist who decry hip hop and rap stars for spreading base morals? Where is Jerry Falwell and the GOP pundits who bring the wrath upon inner city black youths, for exhibiting the same bad judgment and behavior that Sarah Palin's daughter and baby daddy have? All I've heard today from the same people who litter the airwaves with their self-righteous moralizing was political sophistry. Gone are the fire and brimstone sermons about good Christian family values.

If Sarah Palin has accomplished anything in this election cycle, it's to expose the right wing extremist for the bigots and hypocrites they are. We see when one of their own is forced to reveal themselves, they are reticent about how at odds their reality is to the false image they promulgate. Since her announcement the GOP have been cooing she is a "breath of fresh air." I agree, she is, but not for the reasons they were hoping. Not because she's a woman who will shake up the race and steal women voters from Obama, but because she finally puts a face on all those GOP baby mama-daddy shot gun weddings of political expediency.

In the words of an enthusiastic Republican female supporter, "You go girl!" Too bad the motivation behind her candidacy and the weak attempts to bolster it are as stale and old as those three words from the nineties. Now the baby mama drama was a nice touch, but we're over that, didn't she star in the movie this summer? Tina Fey, they looks so much alike. A scary thought just cross my mind, what if John McCain really thinks he's nominating the broad from "SNL," or even better he believes the chick from SNL is the governor from Alaska? I see his point, the guy from "Terminator" is governor of California. Somebody needs to find these things out. The man only met her once before putting her on the ticket.

Here's a novel approach for the McCain camp, stop insulting the voters and tell the truth. Admit Ms. Palin was never vetted. You made your crowded bed now lie in it -- baby mama, red neck daddy, moose and all.

Comments

[slemay]

Let's add to this that grandma--Sarah Palin--threw her child and grandchild to be under the media bus. She chose--note the word choice--to accept the nomination for VP, knowing that her child and grandchild would be exposed to extraordinary media scrutiny.

But it's okay. It's in keeping with John McCain's behavior. Afer all, he hired Eskew, the guy who oversaw the email campaign against him in South Carolina in 2000. You know, the one that said his adopted daughter was his out of wedlock child.

So these people are consistent. They'll throw their families 'under the bus' to win a campaign.

I hope they fail.

[Mybunchofgrapes]

I hope the parents of this new wonderful life will think the marriage angle it is doomed for maturity has not hit all and without maturity neither will progress to security. I saw neediness in the daughter and the baby daddy at the RNC convention. They were introduced and neither stood up to applaud the efforts of the Sarah Palin

[mayflowerbvb]

What a sad time in election history. And heaven forbid that the babygate rumor turns out to be true after the formal nomination. I believe Governor Palin should step down now as she has other issues on the table which point to a very weak vetting process. Even though she wasn't thoroughly vetted, the honorable thing for her to have done was inform the McCain campaign of all of the issues and rumors surrounding her. Because she didn't and the media is now addressing them, attention is taken away from one of the most important campaigns in history. We have serious problems in this country which call for ethical, intelligent and focused leadership if we are to put our house in order. It is because I don't think that Gov Palin can focus on America's needs right now with so much drama going on in her life that i think she should graciously step down.

[Routers]

How about using some common sense here?

Palin has 5 children, and one of her daughters got twitterpated by a "badboy". Most of you act like you've never been 17 before.

There's no hypocracy here...it's simply a challenging situation for the Palin family.

Should you blame Sarah Palin for this? Should you curse her and rant FOUL PLAY, deeming her unworthy of being a VP candidate? Should you blame society or Bristow's peers?

Noone can answer that yet. Judging Sarah based on Bristow's situation is cowardly and disgraceful at this point. Let's let more time pass and more meaty substance surface before condemning and/or stereotyping this candidacy.

McCain knew about Palin's daughter before he offered the VP candidacy...I'm interested in finding out why...her strengths must be pretty admirable. We'll see.

[Paul Peete - Huffpost Blogger]

You are a perfect example of what Ms. Monk was talking about. It's the double standard that the Republicans operate under. If Sarah Palin knew, as you say how 17 yr. olds act, why does she refuse to allow them to learn at school about sex education and birth control. You and those who call it cowardly to call Sarah on her hypocrisy are the real cowards; too afraid to call these politicians who play on religion and sexual orientation to create mindless automatons who march out on election day and pull that lever for them knowing that they don't care about you or the rest of us.

That Ms. Monk can hit the nail on the head about you got under your skin. And as far as Bristol goes, I can't fault her, the Governor of her state was too busy getting her graft on to teach Bristol and the children in schools there anything that could help them get through the hormone heavy teens.

[Gratier]

Ms. Monk is off-base. She is ranting rhetoric and trying to dig up unstantiated substance about the Republican candidacy. Hard core liberals will obviously side with her, like you have, but this doesn't change the fact that looking at both the Democratic and Republican nominees objectively, this article has little substance to discredit Sarah Palin. What generalization that Ms. Monk has emphatically and unwarrantly stressed in this article pertains to both parties at any given time.

Perhaps you should listen to Sarah Palin speech given at the Republican's Convention Sept. 3rd. She is an extremely formidable VP candidate and has already began to sway my vote.

[Gratier]

Ms. Monk is off-base. She is ranting rhetoric and trying to dig up unstantiated substance about the Republican candidacy. Hard core liberals will obviously side with her, like you have, but this doesn't change the fact that looking at both the Democratic and Republican nominees objectively, this article has little substance to discredit Sarah Palin. What generalization that Ms. Monk has emphatically and unwarrantly stressed in this article pertains to both parties at any given time.

Perhaps you should listen to Sarah Palin speech given at the Republican's Convention Sept. 3rd. She is an extremely formidable VP candidate and has already begun to sway my vote.

[prettdee]

The key word is "HYPOCRISY"!!!!!!!

[MrUniteUs]

Maybe he'll make big announcement

[Figerre]

I am shocked! I say SHOCKED! that there is a double standard with the GOP. Of course, they also think that by having a woman nominated as VP that all women will vote for her because we all share the same plumbing. And then there is abstinence, instead of contraception information, and oh yes, creationism instead of evolution. Soooooo

[PulSamsara]

It's becoming more and more clear that Palin will become a liability.

BRING BACK ROMNEY !
Before it's to late !

[Pavane]

Absolutely. yup. Yup.