On Thursday night, when McCain was finalizing his choice of Sarah Palin as his running mate, do you think he expected that, just a few days later, one of the first people he would meet in Minneapolis would be an Alaskan hockey stud whose only claim to fame is that he got his teenage girlfriend pregnant? This cannot be how McCain imagined his convention experience starting.
In all seriousness, what does it say about the McCain campaign and Sarah Palin that on Friday she introduced her family and physically hid her daughter Bristol, didn’t disclose that Bristol was about to maker her a grandmother, and didn’t disclose that she was about to add a son-in-law and now, a few days later, the undisclosed father/fiancee is now part of the family greeting party? That’s quite a change in fortune for the young man.
It’s not a rhetorical question. It shows that the McCain campaign didn’t have the first clue about the family dynamics and, therefore, didn’t have even an inkling of a plan for introducing the pregnancy, the engagement (if there really was one), and the fiance. Complete and utter ineptitude.
It shows that Sarah Palin is as cynical and manipulative as any other politician. On Friday, this soon-to-be first time grandmother doesn’t mention that as part of her personal story. Over the weekend, the pregnancy and the relationship were private family matters. But, once she got a whiff of the base’s embrace of the messy and real family dynamics, the two teenagers were trotted out look good little props.
Make no mistake about it, the fact that Sarah Palin’s seventeen-year-old daughter got pregnant should not be a factor in this race at all and probably wouldn’t have been, except for the amateur cover-up and now the galling exploitation. Okay, it also matters because Sarah Palin is a hypocrite on teen pregnancy, using the line-item veto to cut funding for teenage mothers and their children.
I bet Levi didn’t expect it either!
The bottom feeders are distracted, obsessing over the “knocked up coverup” thang, leaving the adults to concentrate on issues that matter.