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Meghan McCain's Defense of Bristol Palin
September 02, 2008 11:54 AM
ABC News' Bret Hovell reports: Meghan McCain, the daughter of presumptive Republican nominee John McCain, and purveyor of McCainBlogette.com, a blog about her travels on the campaign trail, has a post this morning about Bristol Palin's pregnancy.
Meghan McCain describes a kinship with other political offspring and talks about the question that "single-handedly changed my life" -- when her father was asked during his 2000 campaign what his reaction would be if Meghan, then 14, got pregnant.
Her post, titled "Daughters," is below in full.
Meghan wrote: "The first political convention I ever attended was when my mom was pregnant with me in 1984 and the Republican Party nominated Ronald Reagan for a second term as president. I have been on political stages and in campaigns since before I could walk or talk.
"If there is one thing I have learned, it is that it is difficult to establish your identity and independence as the son or daughter of a politician. When I was 14 years old, a reporter questioned my father about me having a hypothetical abortion, had I been pregnant at 14. This reporter's question single-handedly changed my life. This story comes up in almost every profile written about me and in almost every interview.
"It's a rough go being the son or daughter of a politician. I have not known Bristol Palin very long, but there is a certain kinship I feel to her as I do other political daughters, such as Chelsea Clinton, Jenna and Barbara Bush and Mary Cheney. You can't fully understand it unless you have lived it. So, I just wanted to let it be known that I support Bristol and the entire Palin family."
Meghan also posted to her blog the day after the New York Times published a story that insinuated her father may have had an improper relationship with a lobbyist named Vicki Iseman. Meghan's post that morning defended her father in similar terms.
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I support Bristol and the entire Palin family, too. Biden08, McCain/Palin08
Posted by: Kitty | Sep 2, 2008 12:09:28 PM
OK McCain,
Hurricane is over, it only turned out to be a Category 1 and missed New Orleans, so can we get back to that Republican convention of yours??
How long are you going to hide behind this puny tropical storm anyway?
We the American People WANT to see the complete and utter FAILURE of you and your RNC Convention, in all of its Glory!!!
We can't wait to hear the "POWER" of your acceptance speech on Thursday! We want YOU TO TELL US like Mr. Obama did, why you would make a better president than he would!!!
Say are you going to have a LIME GREEN background behind you again! I really think that one was a winner, do it again!!
We are also all waiting to have your new VP speak to us as well, to assure us that she can step into your shoes at a moments notice and be president...
But can you please tell her not to give that same "hockey mom" speech again, you know the one with the centerpoint being that LIE about the "Bridge to Nowhere" OK? We have had enough of that centerpiece of why you picked her LIE!
http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSN3125537020080901
That speech is getting a little boring, we want to hear something POWERFUL from your new VP, to show us she is not just a "lightweight" beauty queen!!!
Thanks John!!
Posted by: Davis | Sep 2, 2008 12:12:55 PM
Psa 26:4 I did not sit with liars, and I will not be found among hypocrites.
These so called evangelicals who are really political cronies hiding behind the cloth love the Republican Party more than they love God. They don't have any family values. But we all know if that were Michelle Obama's or Hillary Clinton's pregnant teenage daughter Tony Perkins and others would be pointing a finger at them and saying what a poor example they are setting. They would be raking these mothers across the hotest of coals.
As a born again, bible-toting Christian, I'm offended by these hypocrites
Posted by: mary | Sep 2, 2008 12:14:53 PM
I want to know about where the earmarks went?? She left her little town broke with a debt of 25 million???
She has out and out lied to us already about the bridge to no where....
I am loving it....
Obama/Biden
Posted by: beck | Sep 2, 2008 12:15:36 PM
let the vetting begin
Palin is fair game, not just because she is running for national office but because she is a self-described "hockey mom" who told the nation that her eldest son is headed to Iraq.
"Once she's brought her children in as selling points, unfortunately the bad comes in with the good," says Lisa Bloom, a Court TV anchor. "She's integrating her mom quality as a key part of her résumé. We didn't do that in the press; she did that."
Posted by: watching | Sep 2, 2008 12:20:02 PM
Are you saying that the McCain's and Palin's are real families with real lives to live? Amazing, but true! We pray for them and are thankful for unconditional love.
Posted by: Stephen | Sep 2, 2008 12:20:18 PM
HOW WILL THE GOP REACT IF THE BABYS FATHER IS BLACK!!!! YOU GOTTA LOVE IT!!
Posted by: DEL | Sep 2, 2008 12:24:52 PM
Who is McCain?
Posted by: Thinking | Sep 2, 2008 12:25:40 PM
Dear Meghan, I have more issues with her mama.
Posted by: Sandra | Sep 2, 2008 12:27:48 PM
Democrats and liberals are shamefully sexist and have no class. They slandered and demonized Hillary, and now they are trying to tear apart Palin.
Posted by: Jane | Sep 2, 2008 12:29:11 PM
The MSM acts like they have never seen a real American family before. That's correct, we do not "fist bump" each other.
Posted by: geevill | Sep 2, 2008 12:29:50 PM
Go ahead and attack Meghan. Lowlifes.
Posted by: Mack | Sep 2, 2008 12:29:52 PM
Knock it off already... The fact that she has a pregnant teen-aged daughter is NOT news, it is salacious gossip. But this IS news...
-the fact that she's being investigated by the State of Alaska on charges of abuse of power, involving SEVERAL instances where according the special prosecutor in which she may have been complicit, which are substantially more serious that she had first led the McCain camp to believe IS news.(abuse of power/dishonesty)
- the fact that Gov. Palin has taken $27 million in earmarks IS news; (pandering/corruption)
-the fact that Gov. Palin was the DIRECTOR of indicted Sen. Ted Stevens' 527 and raised millions for him, IS news; (corrupt)
-the fact that Gov. Palin ran up a $20 million debt when she was mayor of a small town IS news.(misuse of authority)
- The fact that Gov. Palin was a member of the Buchanan Brigade IS news. (Anti-Semitic conservative, Nazi sympathizer)
- the fact that Gov. Palin is a member of Alaskans for Independence Party IS news;(sedition/treason)
-the fact that Gov. Palin is a NeoPentacostal Dominionist which is a church that preaches purging the Earth of all non-Christians by a specially anointed army of God (starting with the Jews), IS news; (religious fanaticism)
-The fact that as a teen Gov. Palin played a leading role as a member of said army (Joel's Army or the Army of the Third Wave-which most Christian theologians consider heretical in nature) IS news....
PS: All of these stories have been broken by other major media outlets over the week end... so if any of this IS news to you, my I suggest a Google search.
Posted by: beck | Sep 2, 2008 12:30:36 PM
It's like a Maury Povich show .. and we all know what class of people watch that show! Ya know .. DEMS!!
Posted by: Cindy | Sep 2, 2008 12:30:50 PM
If you don't want to be in the spotlight, stay out of it. With that said, Palin's daughter isn't asking to be in the spotlight so why is McCain's daughter bringing her up again? Just keep her mouth (or fingers in this case) closed and keep her opinion to herself.
Posted by: MIguy | Sep 2, 2008 12:31:09 PM
"PS: All of these stories have been broken by other major media outlets over the week end... so if any of this IS news to you, my I suggest a Google search"
Wait, don't tell me; Dailykrud and Huffpoop?
Posted by: Mack | Sep 2, 2008 12:32:30 PM
So is that fact that the 1st term senator from Illinois' mother was a pregnat teenager when she got married and the fact that his father died while driving drunk .........should any of that be important? Come on............
Posted by: clinton from MA | Sep 2, 2008 12:34:34 PM
"It's like a Maury Povich show .. and we all know what class of people watch that show! Ya know .. DEMS!!"
Yeah, while everyone else is working they're at home waiting to collect their handouts, watching TV and complaining that the Government isn't taking better care of them.
Posted by: Mack | Sep 2, 2008 12:34:38 PM
Its really about Palin promoting abstanance in Schools while she does not have a clean house. It also about the fact Palin does not endorse teaching teenagers about pregnancy and how to avoid it...
Its also about Palin knowing her kid was pregnant and still went ahead for the VP, how can one put thier kid threw this...
Posted by: Russell | Sep 2, 2008 12:35:22 PM
We all know if that were Michelle Obama's or Hillary Clinton's pregnant teenage daughter Tony Perkins and others would be pointing a finger at them and saying what a poor example they are setting.
I dare you to find a single example of anybody of stature of this.
And if you can't, you're a hypocrite and a liar.
Posted by: Cliff | Sep 2, 2008 12:35:45 PM
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