lagilman | excuse me while I snarl...

The more I learn about Palin, the less I like/trust her. Setting aside my philosophical disagreements: your kid is going through major stress right now. Male or female parent, your priority should be to take care of your daughter, not use her as a talking point/campaign tool [or marry her off in what sounds to me like a Very Bad Idea]. In this at least, Obama's got the high ground staked out and filed, declaring the kid off-limits to his campaign crew.

Meanwhile, let me share this lovely quote with you:

On Hannity & Colmes, Hannity said, in reference to Internet rumors about Gov. Sarah Palin's daughter, "[T]hey tried to make the attack that she has a young daughter, pregnant and engaged. Is that fair that they would attack that? I mean, I don't remember Chelsea Clinton being attacked. I don't remember Al Gore's children being attacked. I thought there was a general rule that children of candidates ought to be left alone."

Let me refresh your memory...

Columnist Molly Ivins reported (Arizona Republic 10/17/93) this incident from Rush Limbaugh's TV show--"Here is a Limbaugh joke: Everyone knows the Clintons have a cat. Socks is the White House cat. But did you know there is a White House dog?" And he puts up a picture of Chelsea Clinton. Chelsea Clinton is 13 years old.

And from The Man McCain himself? "Why is Chelsea Clinton so ugly? Because Janet Reno is her father". And his cronies laughed.

Yes, kids are exempt from politicking, and sexism and rude jokes are WRONG. Except, apparently, when the GOP's supporters do it to the underage children of Democrats. Then? Oh, that's amusing, and acceptable.

You know, I don't mind disagreeing with political figures -- that's the way the system sorta-works. But this level of two-faced, sanctimonious CRAP of Holier Than Thou while screwing the devil....

I will accept a politician who has an ego, who cats around [of either gender and with either gender, so long as everyone's of age and consenting], who has a reasonable level of low-lying graft because that's the type that gets into politics in the first place, and the rest of us are too sensible to take the job ourselves. But there's a level of mean-spirited nastiness and denial-of-responsibility that infects the GOP all the way from root to roof, and that I refuse to reward, and have no respect for anyone who does.

(oh, and did you hear about the McCain staffer who announced that Palin was, among other things, screened by the FBI? FBI is now saying "did not!" Ooops. We meant to say the CIA did it! yeah, that's what we meant!)