Aw, remember Dan Quayle?
IF FOR NOTHING ELSE, DAN QUAYLE DESERVES POINTS for audacity. In modern America taking on a popular TV character, even a fictional one, is politically more precarious than taking a clear stand on a substantive campaign issue. And yet the Vice President dared to argue last week in a San Francisco speech that the Los Angeles riots were caused in part by a “poverty of values” that included the acceptance of unwed motherhood, as celebrated in popular culture by the CBS comedy series Murphy Brown.
September 1st, 2008 at 11:19 pm
Yes, no difference between a middle aged woman intentionally getting pregnant without a husband because of her own selfish wants, and the hormonal drive of fecund youngsters with immature prefrontal cortexes. When you’re in a hole, the first thing to do is quit digging.
September 2nd, 2008 at 10:24 am
Yeah, no difference between a successful financially independent woman with the ability to support a child and a high school student who will have to rely on her absentee parents or perhaps the equally unemployed high school senior she is going to marry.
This is the first time that the Republican party has been so supportive of a teenage pregnancy. Do you think it is the first time that they realized that it happens to white kids too?
September 2nd, 2008 at 10:40 am
Also, who cares if her daughter is pregnant… except for the schadenfreude lulz about the abstinence-only agenda.
September 2nd, 2008 at 10:50 am
This woman, who, let’s face it, burst on to the national scene saying really three things “i am a mother who had a special needs baby even tho i knew, two, i am a mother who has a boy going to iraq and 3) i’m a reformer who bucks my party.†So, I think it’s fair to look at her as a mother and see a woman with every advantage who is 0-2 in getting her 18 yr old kids to matriculate at college or protect themselves when getting it on.
September 2nd, 2008 at 11:33 am
It’s all about the Benjamins with you lefties isn’t it. Going to law school is not the lone course of a successful life. In fact, it probably isn’t a course for a happy life. I’ve known many lawyers, and so few happy or decent beings among them. Children only really need one thing, and it isn’t the right private school. It is the love and affection of a mother and father. Few can afford to give children everything they want. Most can afford to give them everything they need.
BTW, Palin never outed her son as being autistic, but keep on flailing. Real America loves Sarah Palin.
September 2nd, 2008 at 11:36 am
I would also accept medical school.
September 2nd, 2008 at 12:41 pm
This is the first time that the Republican party has been so supportive of a teenage pregnancy. Do you think it is the first time that they realized that it happens to white kids too?
Clearly you know no pro-lifers.
September 2nd, 2008 at 6:09 pm
Children only really need one thing, and it isn’t the right private school. It is the love and affection of a mother and father. Few can afford to give children everything they want. Most can afford to give them everything they need.
Actually, they also need food. And diapers. LOTS of diapers. And medical care. And clothing. And there are many in this country — especially unmarried teenage mothers — who cannot provide these things for their children (especially the medical care).
September 3rd, 2008 at 1:32 pm
No, you are probably right, Karol. I’m sure that those pro-lifers have always been totally cool with premarital sex and teen pregnancy. It probably explains all of the “Teen Pregnancy: Is it for you?” pamphlets that are distributed in the abstinence-only education classes.