shit. i've been reading this thread for two days now, trying to figure out what got the party started.
what exactly is the problem? who is making who look bad? we're expecting the democrats who read demunderground and kos to represent whosit with class and flair now? hmmm. the best i can figure is catron is pissed because someone was called a redneck or something. or someone's pissing all over palin because they think her husband's white trash?
someone pass me the dekoder ring.
At 03:52 PM 9/3/2008, Matt wrote:
>On Tue, Sep 02, 2008 at 10:31:18AM -0700, Jordan Hayes wrote:
>
> > I don't think this point needs to be made _at the expense of_ her
> > daughter, but I think it's mildly amusing that the double-standard she
> > holds in this case is directly opposed to the non-double-standard
> > position that Michael Dukakis stood up for and got skewered for.
>
>I'm trying to follow this and I don't quite see what about Palin is
>evidence of a double-standard or hypocrisy.
>
>Sure, she is a proponent of abstinence-only education (so I've been
>told), and she has a preggo teenage daughter. But I don't think the
>premise of ab-only ed. (for those who believe it is effective) is to
>lead to a reduction in teenage *pregnancies*; the point is to lead to
>a reduction in teenage immorality, loosely defined as sexual activity.
>
>To these folks, girls avoiding abortions is most important. Girls
>avoiding fucking is pretty important. Girls not getting pregnant -
>well they don't seem to care much about that, and if the girls *are*
>fucking, then if they get pregnant, fine, as long as they don't
>consider abortion.
>
>I really doubt Palin's own daughter is the one "Aha!" moment the
>rightards needed to see the flaws in abstinence-only education.
>"Wait, you mean it does *NOT* keep all kids from fucking? WHO KNEW!"
>Puh-leeze.
>
>Now, if Palin had spirited her away for an abortion at the same time
>she was campaigning to overturn Roe v. Wade then game on; she's a
>hypocrite.
>
>But otherwise I'm much more interested in Palin's "someone needs to
>tell me what the VP actually does" interview from July than her
>jailbait daughters' sex lives.
>
>
>Matt
>
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