Reply #30: Can you imagine if the situation were reversed?

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If Obama had a 17 year-old daughter who was discovered to be pregnant?

If Chelsea Clinton had gotten pregnant while Bill was President?

Somehow, someway, I don't get the feeling that a decision to keep the baby and marry the father would have turned any Democratic family into a prime example of good Christian values, as the wingnuts are desperately trying to spin the Palin situation. We'd be hearing Rush bloviating and Coulter screeching, "How can you expect these men to run the country when they can't even keep their own children from going out of control?", "Here's the kind of disastrous result you can expect from 'liberal values'!", etc., etc.

Merely pointing out the hypocrisy demonstrated by, and irony of, the Palin pregnancy situation pretty clean fighting compared to crap we routinely take dished out by Republicans.

We shouldn't sink to Rovian levels of mudslinging and outright lying and character assassination, but I sure as don't want to see Democrats engage in unilateral rhetorical disarmament, becoming toothless in an effort to achieve some ridiculous level of supposedly saintly purity.