It's not that Sarah can't handle both a new, special need baby of her own and a new grandchild - her husband won't exactly be working very much if they are living in the VP mansion, and he's certainly a man who can take care of some things. I'm not even asking the question of whether she can handle it (yes, it's a sexist question.)

It's that both Palin and McCain must have known that they would turn this poor, pregnant, 17 year old girl into a national whipping-post/lightening rod, by putting Palin in the VP slot. They threw that girl to the wolves! And Palin's response - basically, "She's going to have to grow up, fast" - shows no sympathy.

Poor Bristol. How unsupportive can your mom be?

Of course, it does beg the question: should Sarah really put a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity on hold because her daughter doesn't know how to use a condom? I don't know, but my gut says that Palin is a rising conservative star, and that by jumping at the ring too soon and at such a bad time, she just turned herself into a joke instead of the powerhouse she could have been (I mean, couldn't you see the next repub. president naming her energy secretary or something? She has the oil connections . . . If only she had waited!)

To begin with, you have no idea what conversations took place between the Palin's and their daughter. You're making a tremendous number of assumptions about people you don't know.

Secondly, Palin is right that Bristol is going to have to grow up fast. She's a parent now, and she's going to start acting like it. She gave up the right to play immature teenager. She's dealing with the choices she made and it's not up to Mom and Dad to tell her "don't worry, we'll fix everything".

Amen. Let Bristol find out what the real world is like. At this point, she's really not her parents' worry anymore.

Can an immature teenager be expected to make rational choices? I thought that's what parents were for!

"Let Bristol find out what the real world is like. At this point, she's really not her parents' worry anymore."

Totally leaving politics aside, she's a pregnant 17 year old who hasn't graduated high school yet I think. I don't believe her parents are kicking her out. She's still a worry, more so than if she wasn't pregnant.

cassandra:

Can an immature teenager be expected to make rational choices? I thought that's what parents were for!

How do you know that she is immature?

Since when do Democrats advocate that the parents make the decisions. All I ever hear is that they are going to do it anyway so we might as well educate them and supply them with the means to do it (ie: condoms and birth control) and if they do get pregnant we might as well supply to means to either terminate it or support it.

So when a kid makes a mistake it is the parents responsibility to make all the decisions and I guess that means the if she wants a abortion, too bad because she is too immature to make that decision on her own, but she wasn't too immature to have sex in the first place. Typical party line (both sides) It is one thing when it is someone on our side of the fence but a different thing when it is someone on the other side of the fence.