My Wife got preganant at 18 and wasn't married

Quite frankly this isn't going to sink any McSame/Fundie ticket. My wife came from a fundie household. No they were not happy about it but she didn't abort and all has been well.

ISSUES ISSUES and ISSUES is what we need to focus on.

Not sure what you mean. I like what the OP said - that many fundies will not like the fact that Palin didn't teach her daughter "abstinence only."

"abstinence" fucking only? NO SEX EDucation in Schools?!

I'd agree that there is a case to be made here for hypocrisy.

It is what it is..and the Hypocricy is Glaring.

And there are plenty of more wads to be blown.

Something looked fishy. We discussed it. Turns out something *was* fishy.

Did your wifes parents then expose her to the national and international press? This is about the lack of decision making on the part of the republican ticket.

so your wife's issue received national attention?

why can't we stick to issues?

She has been held up as a shining example of Christian Motherhood. She has now made a mockery of them. They won't be forgiving her.

She as anti abortion and anti gay and pro gun. If she were a Dem they wouldn't forgive her.

Hell they forgave Jimmy Swaggert didn't they?

and a pregnant teenaged daughter.

1) Disown the girl and kick her out.
2) Push her to give the baby up for adoption
3) Accept the pregnancy and go on with life.

Many more people in this nation in these types of families go with option 3 than you would care to believe. There is gossip and backbiting in the church usually and some churches may expel the family to keep the closed belief system intact and not to have a bad example present in the congregation for younger children. Some congregations forgive and support the teen in question.

In some ways, this is not an issue but a sad family problem in a family that manipulates morality for others. In other ways, it is a problem because this is a family that would manipulate morality for others. Regardless of how you feel, Bristol does not deserve the horrible public humiliation her mother's dishonesty has added to her problems.

And did she advocate federal laws banning access to contraception?

Teensy bit different situation, eh?

with enough family problems to cause a nervous breakdown to be his VP candidate.

a politician running for the second higest office in the land on a platform of abstinance and Christian dogam? Did her mom organize openly against others based on her claimed moral superiority? Do your really expect that a fake should be allowed to be a fake and continue to spew vitriol against others based on 'values' they themselves do not live by?
My guess is your wife's mom had read those verses about dealing with the plank in your own eye before bitching about the speck in someone else's eye, and did not run around pointing fingers at other families for 'sexual sin' after the wife got preggers.
I just don't see how your wife's first child has anything to do with the Republican candidate for Vice President's family or her so called values.