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What should be made of the news that Bristol Palin is 5 months pregnant? (20 quotes)

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Blue Texan

Raises more questions

Some obvious questions here -- did McSame really know about this? Read the Article

Quoted by db25 on Sept. 1st, 2008

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Alan Colmes

TV pundit

Clear demonstration of conservative hypo

Gee, I’d hate to be the person who asks the “judgment” question here.  But can you imagine what the reaction would have been from the right if a 17-year-old Chelsea had been pregnant? Read the Article

Quoted by db25 on Sept. 1st, 2008

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Josh Marshall

Blogger

Shows that Gov. Palin was minimally vett

What this does show is much more confirmation of what Republican operatives and pols are saying loquaciously off-the-record: that they don't think there was any real vetting of Palin. Read the Article

Quoted by db25 on Sept. 1st, 2008

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Jake Tapper

Columnist

Clear demonstration of conservative hypo

What would the response be if Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, and his wife Michelle had a pregnant unmarried teenage daughter? Read the Article

Quoted by db25 on Sept. 1st, 2008

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Byron York

Journalist

Makes one admire Gov. Palin for how she

How will McCain's newly-enthusiastic evangelical supporters react to is?  My feeling is that they are simply not going to be judgmental.  The whole tone of contemporary evangelicism seems to involve a lot of non-judgmentalism, at least in matters like this.  Read the Article

Quoted by db25 on Sept. 1st, 2008

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Lee Stranahan

Refutes rumors that Bristol is Trig's mo

Now, if you want to pretend that the five month date is a total lie then you’d also have to believe that the 17 year old had a Down’s Syndrome baby then turned right around and got pregnant again presumably because the first premature birth was so freakin’ awesome!” Read the Article

Quoted by db25 on Sept. 1st, 2008

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Ed Morrissey

Blogger

Nothing, this is a private matter

We would all do better just to admire the Palins for their love and support for Bristol, Bristol’s courage in pursuing motherhood when faced with a difficult but hardly unusual situation, and agree that this has little to do with whether Sarah Palin will make a good Vice President. Read the Article

Quoted by db25 on Sept. 1st, 2008

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Melissa McEwan

Blogger

Nothing, this is a private matter

...the suggestion that Bristol Palin's decisions should be used against her mother not only ignores that we don't know the circumstances of the conception but also robs Bristol of her agency and independence, rendering this political gamesmanship both anti-choice and anti-feminist. Read the Article

Quoted by db25 on Sept. 1st, 2008

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