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kpete Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-08 04:48 PM
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Enquirer: Palin Demanded Daughter have Shotgun Wedding
PALIN WAR: TEEN PREGO CRISIS


Republican Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin attempted to quietly have her daughter Bristol get married before news of her pregnancy leaked out, the NATIONAL ENQUIRER is reporting exclusively in its new issue.

Palin planned for the wedding to take place right after the Republican National Convention and then she was going to announce the pregnancy.

But Bristol, 17, refused to go along with the plan and that sparked a mother-daughter showdown over the failed coverup.

The ultra-conservative governor’s announcement about her daughter’s pregnancy came hours after The ENQUIRER informed her representatives and family members of Levi Johnston, the father of Bristol’s child, that we were aware of the pregnancy and were going to break the news.

In a preemptive strike Palin released the news, creating political shockwaves.

MORE AT:
Enquirer: Palin Demanded Daughter have Shotgun Wedding
http://www.nationalenquirer.com/sarah_palin_at_war_with_her_daughter_over_pregnancy_wedding/celebrity/65370
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LisaL Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-08 04:50 PM
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1. Oohh. Sounds like more fun stories are coming.
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hlthe2b Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-08 04:53 PM
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9. So now US magazine and National Enquirer are on the story...
Now, THAT will leave a mark....And, poor ole John McSlime thought he could just punish the MSM with canceled access and interviews.... Sorry, John Boy.
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LisaL Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-08 05:05 PM
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36. How can NE pass up a baby story?
Come on.
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Heather MC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-08 05:30 PM
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59. Sounds like a feud between the hatfields and the McCoys
:rofl:
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roguevalley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-08 07:32 PM
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88. whoa, good for Bristol.
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trueblue2007 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-08 08:46 PM
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102. JUST WAIT ......till David Letterman, Jay Leno & Jon Stewart get going!!!!
I especially wanna hear Letterman. I think he HATES Repukes
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Rhiannon12866 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-03-08 02:52 AM
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108. David Letterman sure expressed his feelings tonight.
I can't remember the exact words, but this is close, if you missed it. He made some jokes about Palin, then made one very serious and cutting remark, said that he would hope that someone who can run the country could take five minutes to speak to her teen-agers about birth control. We ran it back to make sure that's what he said, but he did... :-)

He doesn't exactly hate republicans, seems to get on fine with John McCain, but doesn't suffer fools and hypocrites gladly, which you'll know if you saw his interviews with O'Reilly...x(

He's also had both Clintons on several times and seemed pretty impressed with them, especially Bill, who explained what had happened on 9/11, shortly after the awful event, with such clarity and knowledge that Letterman said something about Bill Clinton still being our president and the audience went wild... :D
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Median Democrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-08 04:51 PM
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2. What Will All Those Right Wing Hacks Who Praised The Enquirer Over John Edwards Say?
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Mme. Defarge Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-08 04:51 PM
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3. Adds a whole new twist on the fundies'
strong support of the Second Amendment.
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Bicoastal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-08 04:51 PM
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4. Her mom is FORCING her to get married? I'm not enjoying this story anymore...
Edited on Tue Sep-02-08 04:52 PM by Bicoastal
...I feel sorry for Bristol. Her mom is a psycho Fundie dragging her kicking and screaming into the spotlight.
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kayell Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-08 04:59 PM
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26. I assumed that from the start. It's the fundie way of life.
It's a sick, sick culture.

I know a fundie who brags about how proud he is of his son because his son went to the father of the woman he wanted to marry, and got approval of the marriage, BEFORE he ever asked his "intended." You have to wonder if it was even an option for her to say no, once he had dear old dad's approval.

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niyad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-08 05:04 PM
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34. but. . . but. ,. , the daughter CHOSE to be pro-life--that's what the pundits told us all
susan molinari was rhapsodizing last night about what strong family values this showed.
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beac Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-08 05:34 PM
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63. Briston Palin's choices:
1) Keep the Baby

2) Stoning


Bristol needs to get herself a lawyer ASAP and empancipate herself from her utterly UNFIT parents. She has an airtight case.
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kayell Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-08 05:42 PM
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67. If Mom or Dad had gone into preaching, it would have been
burning.

A priest's daughter who loses her honor by committing fornication and thereby dishonors her father also, shall be burned to death. (Leviticus 21:9 NAB)
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FatDave Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-08 07:55 PM
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93. I like the emancipation angle.
I'll bet there's lawyers who'd handle it pro bono.
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Heather MC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-08 05:33 PM
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62. Certainly explains why she looked so said that day
that and he ankles may have been swollen
I am really praying for this little girl.
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FatDave Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-08 07:54 PM
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91. Forcing both of them.
Has anybody said anything about what the boy or his family want? I mean, they're 18 and 17. I think that's old enough for them to make their own decisions. Maybe they just want to put the baby up for adoption and be done with it.
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Parche Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-08 04:52 PM
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5. Literally A Shotgun Wedding


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demo dutch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-08 04:52 PM
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6. Well, wait and see what the next Enquirer issue brings, they break the story everytime!
Edited on Tue Sep-02-08 04:52 PM by demo dutch
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Thrill Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-08 04:52 PM
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7. Forcing a daughter to marry at 17. Its a damn shame. She's a communist
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Tansy_Gold Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-08 05:00 PM
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29. Seriously, that's an insult to communists.
I hope you just forgot the "sarcasm" thingie.



Tansy Gold, socialist


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chatnoir Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-08 06:13 PM
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80. An insult to communists
Communists in the 20s sought to abolish marriage altogether as they found it to be a bourgeois institution.
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TheCoxwain Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-08 04:52 PM
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8. I am having a Political ORGASM...
AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH
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vaberella Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-08 04:57 PM
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19. Dear God...
:rofl:
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BeyondGeography Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-08 04:53 PM
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10. At least they are equal opportunity muckrakers
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vaberella Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-08 04:59 PM
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24. I was truly worried they wouldn't be. You know that whole murdoch thing. n/t
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yardwork Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-08 06:03 PM
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74. Yes, for some reason Murdoch has thrown Palin to the wolves.
I think it's got something to do with a split in the Republican Party but I can't quite figure it all out.

Anyway, for whatever reason, the MSM and the tabloids are not giving Palin a pass.
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HockeyMom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-08 04:54 PM
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11. To compound one mistake (teenage pregnancy)
with another (teenage shotgun wedding) is tragic beyond belief. Way back when, I Knew several girls in catholic hs who "disappeared" for a time to their aunt and uncle's in another state, or to a "vacation" in europe, but NONE ever had a rush, rush shotgun wedding. They all came back and finished hs and even went on to college, back in the 1960s.

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OnionPatch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-08 05:55 PM
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72. You forgot the first mistake.
Not teaching her child about birth control methods.

And getting pregnant is not the worst thing that can happen when a teen doesn't know about condoms and such. I plan to make sure my child knows about these things to protect her from AIDS.
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HockeyMom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-08 06:13 PM
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81. Of course
but this is what you get from that Abstinence ONLY education without any mention of BC. Then, again her mother may be against ALL BC, outside of marriage and even in marriage. Who knows? Palin seems like the typical fundie.
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musicblind Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-03-08 04:47 AM
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113. She is
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C_U_L8R Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-08 04:54 PM
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12. OMG it's high teen drama !!
I can't wait for Bristol and Levi to tell em all to get stuffed
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Occam Bandage Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-08 04:55 PM
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13. Never thought I'd say this, but I'm lovin' the tabloids this week.
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Ichingcarpenter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-08 04:58 PM
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21. Didn't we say over the weekend that
they will eat this shit up?

I wonder when the Meth stories will start happening.

Wellsela is the Meth lab capital of Alaska
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vaberella Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-08 04:56 PM
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14. Oh dear, the Enquirer has taken over. Good luck GOP. n/t
Edited on Tue Sep-02-08 04:56 PM by vaberella
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Quixote1818 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-08 05:09 PM
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40. LOL! The big boys have taken over and they can't blame it on the blogs anymore. nt
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krkaufman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-08 08:00 PM
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95. Unfortunately, the Enquirer being involved may diminish the credibility ...
... of some of the reporting, in the eyes of voters.
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Bucky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-08 04:56 PM
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15. That's an appropriate response. Makin' babies is a responsibility. Good for her.
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KansDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-08 04:56 PM
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16. Well, since the Governor condones shotgun hunting for wolves from small planes...
Edited on Tue Sep-02-08 04:58 PM by KansDem
We can surmise that she's fine with shotgun hunting from small planes for future son-in-laws.

RUN, REDNECK, RUN!!! :crazy:

edited for spelling...
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kath Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-08 05:15 PM
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44. RUN, REDNECK, RUN!!!
just had to see that again!
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Oak2004 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-08 05:54 PM
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71. Wolves would probably favor shotgun hunting from small planes, too
Shotguns are short- to mid- range guns. They use rifles for wantonly killing important predators from aircraft.
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KansDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-03-08 01:06 PM
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118. I agree and understand your point, however, in this clip...
DU Thread - YouTube

...the hunter is using a 12-gage shotgun to bring down a wolf (graphic).
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yardwork Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-08 04:57 PM
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17. ....and there's more to come
The ENQUIRER has also learned that Palin’s family is embroiled in a vicious war that is now exposing her darkest secrets, threatening to destroy her political career.

Palin’s ongoing war with her ex brother-in-law Mike Wooten, a state trooper, has caused multiple sources to come forward with shocking allegations about the governor.
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vaberella Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-08 04:58 PM
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20. You're lieing?! There can't be more!!! I don't believe it. n/t
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mnhtnbb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-08 04:58 PM
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22. You knew there would be folks itching to talk. The woman is a walking disaster.
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JimDandy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-08 05:26 PM
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53. Perhaps that a source in Alaska who is
very close to the family has direct knowledge that the REASON the Palin's didn't announce their pregnancy until Feb 2008 was because they HAD indeed discussed terminating their pregnancy? Do Tell!
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yardwork Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-08 06:01 PM
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73. My post was a quote from The Enquirer webpage. They promise to tell all in the next issue.
I can't believe I'm waiting to see what The Enquirer has to say!
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JimDandy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-08 06:21 PM
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83. Dupe
Edited on Tue Sep-02-08 06:23 PM by JimDandy
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JimDandy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-08 06:22 PM
Response to Reply #73
84. Thanks. Caught that, but only AFTER I posted!
Where's a smilie for 'kicking myself in the a**?
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yardwork Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-08 07:53 PM
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90. It's all good. The news is coming fast and furious today.
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mnhtnbb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-08 04:57 PM
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18. I hope the NE printed lots of copies for this issue! It's gonna' fly off the shelves.
I might even buy one.

:rofl:


I really feel sorry for Bristol. I wouldn't want Palin to be my mother.
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kath Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-08 05:14 PM
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43. Yeah, I might buy my first copy ever!

I'll bet the dad's worse than the mom -- Dominionist, fundie "headship" and all that.
These fundie whackos even have guidelines telling them what diameter "rod" is appropriate to beat a child with (they don't use the word "beat", but "chastise"), depending on the age ofthe child.
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JimDandy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-08 05:35 PM
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64. What do you mean
might? I'm definitely going to buy one, for the first time in my life.
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liberalmuse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-08 04:58 PM
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23. Thanks, Enquirer...
It looks like the McCain camp can't blame the liberal bloggers/posters on this one. Poor daughter! What self-centered bitch of a mom.
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Mme. Defarge Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-08 04:59 PM
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25. I hope the wedding is at the White House - n/t
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LisaM Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-08 05:07 PM
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39. No, I hope it's at the Convention!
A surprise wedding, Wednesday night. Heck, something needs to bring the event to life. It's the deadest convention I've ever seen.
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HooptieWagon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-08 05:27 PM
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55. I wonder if Levi knows, or will they blindside him too? n/t
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beac Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-08 05:44 PM
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70. Well, they ARE flying him in to St. Paul today.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080902/ap_on_el_pr/cvn_palin_daughter


Nothing like siccing the Secret Service on your daughter's babydaddy to make sure he doesn't bolt.
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Papa Boule Donating Member (363 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-08 06:11 PM
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79. Self delete
Edited on Tue Sep-02-08 06:12 PM by Papa Boule
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Sanity Claws Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-08 05:00 PM
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27. Oh my! More dirt to come
You know -- we couldn't make this stuff up. I've said this often about the Republican scandals, e.g. Jeff Gannon's other occupation, and this one is just another example.
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izquierdista Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-08 05:00 PM
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28. Died and gone to heaven
That's what the National Enquirer editors must be thinking. If they can't double or triple their circulation during this fall's campaign, then they just aren't trying. :woohoo:
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kath Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-08 05:16 PM
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46. yeppers - KA-CHING!!!
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Ichingcarpenter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-08 05:01 PM
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30. Billy Idol will be the Preacher- White Wedding
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endarkenment Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-08 05:03 PM
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31. Big Ooops. Nat. Enq: last bastion of a free press?
Corpmedia ought to just curl up and die.

Hey remember when the columns on the dnc podium at the stadium were a huge scandal? Remember that?

How fucking low can they go?
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DCBob Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-08 05:04 PM
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32. You can certainly count on the Enquirer and the other tabloids to dig up dirt ...
and then some. I wonder what else they have in their sites.
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central scrutinizer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-08 05:21 PM
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49. And where is Larry Flynt?
He is usually good for an outing or two of the hypocritical assholes.
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Critters2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-08 05:04 PM
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33. Puhleeze. I knew this the first time I heard that Bristol had "chosen to keep the baby
and get married". Right. In the same way that I CHOOSE to pay my income tax or stop at red lights. There's "choice" and then there's "choice".
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nichomachus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-08 05:04 PM
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35. It will be a formal wedding
they will use a white shotgun
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JimDandy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-08 05:38 PM
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66. SNORT!
:rofl:
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eshfemme Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-08 05:06 PM
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37. LOL! What irony that the tabloid is forcing the actual newspapers to do their fucking jobs
The MSM should have been doing their fucking jobs and vetting her instead of falling all over themselves to gush all over her about her special needs baby and her attractiveness and her "qualifications." What's sad is that it took the National fucking Enquirer to get them to do it and that's because they scooped them on the Edwards story.
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krkaufman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-08 08:04 PM
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96. Too true. All the news media seemed to just be echoing Palin's own ...
... introductory speech from Friday and her puffed-up Wikipedia entry. Basic googling turned-up plenty of Alaska/local articles refuting much of her ballyhooed "reformer" facade.
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AuntPatsy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-08 05:07 PM
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38. I never thought to see the Enquirer as proof of anything, how times have changed..
thank you to the republicans for making our presidential elections gossip fodder..I hate them.
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cascadiance Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-08 05:11 PM
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41. How soon before Babs and Jenna try to get Bristol in trouble for drinking?
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FVZA_Colonel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-08 05:12 PM
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42. Well, they exposed Edwards' affair.
Edited on Tue Sep-02-08 05:12 PM by FVZA_Colonel
Who's to say this isn't valid as well?
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lxlxlxl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-08 05:16 PM
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45. NO ENQUIRER/TABLOID STUFF PLEASE...DO YOU KNOW WHAT THEY WRITE ABOUT OBAMA?
We don't need nationalenquirer links please...be responsible people. There are REAL numbers and issues that we can win on. Resorting to the tabloid shit is so unecessary this year.
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depakid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-08 05:19 PM
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47. Would you rather have them write about Palin- or write about Obama
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Matariki Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-08 05:23 PM
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51. Yeah well. Too bad the 'real journalists' are sitting on their collective asses.
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IndianaGreen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-08 05:26 PM
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54. I am sure the McCain campaign would like nothing more than the National Enquirer to STFU
They loved it when they disclosed John Edwards affair and possible out-of-wetlock child.

Those that live by tabloid journalism, shall die by it.
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Window Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-08 05:19 PM
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48. Oh boy. This is really getting some traction.
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Raine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-08 05:22 PM
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50. How sickening to force your daughter
into a marriage she doesn't want just for the sake of your ambition and the concern of how it might look for political purposes, that's really sad. :-(
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IndianaGreen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-08 05:35 PM
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65. Palin should have declined McCain's Veep offer and to care for her Payton Place family
Instead, her ambition led her to throw her daughter under the bus.
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krkaufman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-08 08:05 PM
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97. Sounds like that is also why Bristol was pulled from school ...
... to coverup the pregnancy because of the political embarrassment it would cause Palin, a staunch advocate of abstinence-only education.
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IndianaGreen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-08 05:24 PM
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52. Palin was quoted as saying she would oppose abortion if daughter was raped.
IOW, this woman wants to make reproductive choices for her daughter, as she wants to make them for the rest of us.
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northernlights Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-08 05:30 PM
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57. well apparently she believes
rapists should have the right to choose the mothers of their children. :puke:

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krkaufman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-08 08:06 PM
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98. Well, at least she's consistent, eh? She still rabidly supports abstinence-only education ...
... even after its abysmal failure in her own home.
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slackmaster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-08 05:28 PM
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56. And the DU monkeys have yet ANOTHER football to fuck
Edited on Tue Sep-02-08 05:29 PM by slackmaster
:argh:
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Neshanic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-08 05:43 PM
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69. Proud DU Monkey here!
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Gabi Hayes Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-08 05:30 PM
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58. haaaa haaaa haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa:
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Gabi Hayes Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-08 05:30 PM
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60. huhhhh? huhhhh? huhhhh?
Edited on Tue Sep-02-08 05:31 PM by Gabi Hayes
oops
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marshall Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-08 05:32 PM
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61. Somewhere in NC John Edwards is sending a prayer of thanks to heaven
and laughing his ass off.
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LisaL Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-08 06:04 PM
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75. My feelings exactly.
But NE probably has room for his alleged love child story as well.
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Neshanic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-08 05:42 PM
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68. "Mom, you may want to run the country, but you are NOT the boss of me!"
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vanderBeth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-08 06:05 PM
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76. I feel bad for the children.
:(
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rainbow4321 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-08 06:05 PM
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77. This could backfire even more for Palin
Babydady and family don't want a wedding....they tell Palin, get off our asses or we spill everything to the Enquirer.
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krkaufman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-08 08:07 PM
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99. Is that speculation, that the Johnston famiy doesn't want a wedding? nt
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rainbow4321 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-08 08:36 PM
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101. Just speculating..given his comment on his webpage about not wanting kids
Specifically: "in a relationship, don't want kids".
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TexasObserver Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-08 06:09 PM
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78. Hey, Little Sister, what have you done?
It's a nice day
for a
White Wedding.
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Barack_America Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-08 06:15 PM
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82. Lol. I knew it was only a matter of time before the Enquirer hi-tailed their asses to AK.
May the "vetting" begin.
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Teflon Donating Member (13 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-08 06:24 PM
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85. Huh?
Are we seriously getting our news from The Enquirer?

This is not the way to maintain credibility...
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yardwork Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-08 07:54 PM
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92. Tell us all about it. And welcome to DU!
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Trajan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-08 09:11 PM
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105. WE dont read it ....
But women read it .... Many RW women ....

I despise that paper, but useful fools they will be ....
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progressivebydesign Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-03-08 01:11 PM
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120. Actually the NE has been right on everything 99% of the time.
Starting with the sad news about Steve MacQueen years and years ago. They pay BIG for their sources, and have a team of researchers and lawyers.
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everything-bolt-up Donating Member (99 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-08 06:35 PM
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86. Is this the Presidential electionof the great USA??
:rofl:
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invictus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-08 06:37 PM
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87. The National Inquirer has been doing some good work lately, on this and the Edwards affair. n/t
Edited on Tue Sep-02-08 06:38 PM by invictus
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krkaufman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-08 07:52 PM
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89. Now it could really get fun, now that the Enquirer is getting involved.
They *have* to realize that Palin stories are going to be better sales drivers than Edwards rehash.

:popcorn:
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cwydro Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-08 07:56 PM
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94. I gotta say, I love how everyone dissed the Enquirer before
with the Edwards story.

But now, all of a sudden, this is a legitimate news outlet.:rofl:
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Trajan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-08 09:13 PM
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106. It isnt a question of 'legitimacy' ...
It is media ... it is read by millions .... What is the point you are making ?

We DONT have to like the Enquirer to enjoy the effects that are in our favor ....

They are STILL despised ....

Now get that lame emoticon rolling again ....
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RNdaSilva Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-03-08 03:33 AM
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109. cwydro, interesting isn't it...
I never posted in any of these many, many threads, National Enquirer & Edwards, because, sadly, I believed they were accurate. On occasion, they do it get right. Think they just might get this current issue right also.

The shotgun wedding story made sense to me after reading a little about Levi. How long might the wedding last? He's about to get National attention...he'll gobble this up and probably help extend the marriage. Then again, they just might need to keep the shotgun loaded.

Naiveté and fickleness runs rampant...
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Jade Fox Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-08 08:11 PM
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100. I wonder if Levi found out he was getting married when the media announced it....
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Major Hogwash Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-08 08:57 PM
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103. Well, the first thin ya know, the daughter's knocked up, her kinfolk said, Sarah get away from here
so she loaded up the truck and headed to Little Minnie.
Minnesota, that is
Land of 10,000 lakes
The great frozen tundra
Twin Cities

"The Alaskan Hillbillies"

boom de boom de boom de boom boom boom
de boom da boom da boom boom boom
boom de boom de boom de boom boom boom
de boom de de boom de de boom boom boom

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MichDem10 Donating Member (644 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-08 09:05 PM
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104. Dear God - Please let the chickens come home to roost.
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Kat45 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-08 09:44 PM
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107. They tried to blame the "liberal blogosphere's" rumors for having to announce this
And all along, the announcement was because the Enquirer was going to out them! They did plenty of sliming of Obama supporters, even bringing Obama's name into it. Despicable, as always.
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Life Long Dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-03-08 03:45 AM
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110. I don't think I'd be laughing if this didn't turn into an...
inquiring minds want to know story! :rofl:
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intaglio Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-03-08 04:17 AM
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111. Might a Dixie Chicks song be appropriate?
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Hekate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-03-08 04:26 AM
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112. Well it's Gawd's Will, y'know. Says right there in Leviticus or something: She that gets knocked up
... shall have a quickie marriage. Or wear a Scarlet Letter. Or both.

Of *course* Bristol "chose" to keep the baby and get married to this jerk. You think her parents would have it any other way?

Curiously, I wonder about that boy. Is he going to resist the tremendous pressure from the Palins? Is he going to tell them to take a flying leap? Will the State of Alaska garnish his wages for child support for the rest of his life?

The kids were stupid -- no condom, no nothin'. I'll bet she was raised to believe that only bad girls and sluts use birth control, but she's not a slut, she just gets carried away by passionate love now and then, something you can't plan on. Sluts plan to have sex. Good girls don't plan on it, it just happens.

I know, it gives me a headache too. It's a very 1950s type of thinking.

Hekate

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rucky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-03-08 05:10 AM
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114. Palin is a tabloid's dream. n/t
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LuckyTheDog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-03-08 05:27 AM
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115. THREW the daughter UNDER THE BUS
Edited on Wed Sep-03-08 05:28 AM by LuckyTheDog
WOW! Briston refused the shotgun wedding, to Palin OUTED her!

Mother of the year? Not so much.
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Ganja Ninja Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-03-08 06:15 AM
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116. Palin was custom made for the Enquirer.
They are going to have a field day with her.
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Kablooie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-03-08 10:31 AM
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117. Goodie! The primo newspaper of the Republican 'morans' is helping out!
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Yavin4 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-03-08 01:09 PM
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119. Nothing Like Compounding A Bad Decision
with another bad decision. This poor girl's life is over at 17.
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progressivebydesign Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-03-08 01:11 PM
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121. How pathetic is it when the NE has a better team of vetters than McCain??? n/t
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OmmmSweetOmmm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-03-08 01:12 PM
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122. I love how on the same page they have a link to an article about McCain's Cheating Heart
Edited on Wed Sep-03-08 01:13 PM by OmmmSweetOmmm
and how he cheated on his first wife Carol. So if Enquier readers don't know about that, they will now!!!!

http://www.nationalenquirer.com/celebrity/64989
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flamingdem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-03-08 01:14 PM
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123. Why would Levi's family break the news... Can anyone say oil money DOWRY?? nt
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afredus Donating Member (26 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-03-08 03:19 PM
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124. Finally, the pros from NE are doing their job *NM*
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AZBlue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-03-08 03:25 PM
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125. You can tell that from looking at the boyfriend and Bristol today.
Their body language is speaking volumes, especially his. I feel sorry for Bristol.
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