Like punching the host of the party I crashed in the face six times...

have the unmitigated gall to comment on my morality simply because I am attracted to men instead of women.

it's by education, birth control and maybe even a little less hypocricy.

And I'm willing to bet Mom never told any of her kids about the birds and the bees..

Easiest $200,000+ she ever made.

I really don't. So what. No family is perfect.

There's this idea that Republican hypocrisy is especially worse, because they run on "family values." Well, what does that mean? Do we cede good behavior to people who claim it? Does that mean Democrats are fine with cheating or people in the closet or what have you?

Who cares.

Maybe this is informed by my being gay. "A republican is gay somewhere!" They are. And probably in pain and confused and a big ole mess. And so is probably Bristol. She's a big fat mess and says stupid things and is the daughter of a nincompoop.

So? We all are, to some extent. Each of us says things that, if examined, would probably get smacked around a ton in light of behavior that we keep hidden.

I see no reason to bother about her with a scrutiny we would not want for ourselves.

A very perceptive question. I would like to see it asked every time some lazy candidate urps out that phrase. As you note, it isn't a magic talisman. So what does it mean, to say that someone running for office believes in "family values"? I'd really like to see the journalists covering these candidates ask them what they mean by it. Because I don't think it means anything, really.

It means a heterosexual couple with kids who never cheat on their spouse ever.

Which most politicians don't even seem to manage half the time.

And given the vast quantities of revealed hypocrisy over time, it's a phrase that should be retired. I think it has been for the most part. Republicans totally wrecked it all by themselves (What's up, Speaker Hastert?!). I cannot imagine any Republican using that phrase as a national admonition with a straight face in 2016. But one never knows. They may yet surprise.

But even so. Bristol. She's not running for office. Who cares. I don't hold politicians responsible for their kids. And I especially don't hold kids responsible for their politician parents. Should I be put out that Chelsea Clinton is married to a hedge fund manager who isn't exactly on the up and up? Nope. Never mentioned it before this post. Not going to mention it again.

Politicians' kids are going to do outrageously stupid things. Why should I derive satisfaction from it?

As if those now berating this mixed up lady haven't been hypocrites themselves.

that is a problem. The whole point of democracies is that no man, or woman, is above or beneath the law. She is on the record as supporting people having to live by her abstinence only code. She has decidedly not been doing that (not only once but twice now). It would be like finding out the Teddy Kennedy was running sweat shops in his spare time, or that Bernie was running a billion dollar super pac, or that Sherrod Brown was crossing picket lines.

I will vigorously campaign against her.

And let's not invoke Teddy Kennedy. With women, especially, the man had a severely checkered past. He was awesome in many ways, but his personal life was a mess.

about the sanctity of marriage and never would have done so.

This airhead did just that and raked in a nice pile of cash for her hypocrisy. If she had never done that I wouldn't say a word about her, Palin family or not.

But look at, say, Kennedy's record on women's rights. He was a big proponent. He was awesome on them.

He was also a womanizer to the highest degree.

If Bristol were in office, I'd care. However, she has no power to affect anyone at all. I cannot imagine anyone anywhere sitting at their computer thinking, "What does Bristol Palin think on this issue, for her advice is sound and wise."

There's a saying on our side. One should always "punch up".

Smacking Bristol around feels very downward in trajectory to me.

But the whole Palin clan goes through life wearing "Kick Me, I'm A Moron" sandwich boards. It's hard to resist even when one should.

My family's white trash. I understand the impulse entirely. Just, on DU, it feels like a weird pile on. Can't articulate properly. She's an idiot, her life is a mess. Yes, she has money, but I don't wish that trainwreck on anyone. She's going to have some long nights and a lot of days spent crying. She doesn't need this 36 year-old guy adding his two cents.

They are such fucking hypocrites.

On a different note, have a healthy baby, enjoy him or her, and go live your life in blessed obscurity. And take the rest of your clan with you. PLEASE.

I don't remember where, but somewhere a long time ago I read the comment that "All families are dysfunctional, some are more dysfunctional than others."

I feel sorry for her. She never had much of a mother herself. A Narcissist can never be a good mother. There isn't any room for a child in that relationship. Maybe Todd tried, who knows. I think she probably was on her own emotionally her entire life. She is a sad young woman whose behavior is very typical of a person with her upbringing.

Regardless of the terrible and stupid things she has said, I don't think she is a bad person.

and agree with what you have said.

I don't think she is a bad person either. I wonder if most of her life has always only been about her mom and mom's career.

I raised three kids pretty much by myself, without a decent role model, and it's not easy.

I just wish she would stop trying to be some sort of spokesperson for family values, fade away into obscurity, and work on being a good mother so she can raise decent, loving human beings, because this world could sure use a few more of that and a few less like her family.

I had two kids by the time I was 23 & a single mother. I don't give a damn that she's having another child, my problem is she spends all her time blathering about "family values & purity nonsense.

Almost.

You and your entire cretinous family are an embarrassment and disappointment to all of humanity, sweetie.

of marriage and family values.

She had to hear it from someone in her family. If my daughter were ever to get pregnant, I would never tell her she was a disappointment to her family, and I wouldn't allow anyone else to do so either.

As for her family, if they had any shame they would be disappointed in themselves for being grifting, right-wing nuts, and disappointed in Governor Palin for quitting halfway through her term.

and that's how the impregnation happened.

political atmosphere.

I don't give a flying f***. Let it go already...

There's no way I'm going to trash talk her for being a single mom. It's sad to see DUers doing that. No one has a monopoly on hypocrisy.

her hypocrisy. She pulled in a giant pile of cash being a spokesperson for abstinence.

she went on a speaking tour about abstinence. "Do as I say, not as I do". She injected herself into the spotlight, she can take her lumps or crawl back under the rock she came from. Same goes for her entire grifter family.

except learn how to use birth control.

Is Trig ready to be an uncle again?

accidentally made the case in favor of contraception here.

Raising a child lone is seldom easy. Now she has two.

Forgive me if I can't find pleasure in her situation.

'I'm trying to keep my chin up on this one'

Really?

How do you think your kid is going to feel to read that one day. Mommy was upset she got knocked up again with you and didn't really want you. Probably would have had an abortion if her family wasn't so high profile against it.

Children are a blessing. If she couldn't say something positive then maybe just shut down the damn twitter account altogether.