Listen Up! Keep the families out of it, or else

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

We need to get our act together and not delight in the latest revelations about the Palin family.

I don't care whether Bristol Palin knows who the father of her baby is. I don't care that she made out with every boy in Wassila. I don't care that she was shipped out of town by her horrid mother when the pregnancy became apparent.

And it is none of our business that the "father" was flown into the RNC under duress.

And I sure as hell don't care that Sarah Palin sleeps with men other than her husband. That's her business, not mine.

And it is certainly none of my business that Track Palin (an unfortunate name in the context of drug addiction) is a crack addict and felon who was shipped out of town (like his sister) when his criminality became too public. And if he is shipping out to Iraq only to evade prison for sabotaging the brakes on school buses, well who fucking cares?

It's not like my kids ride those buses.

So keep the families out of it!!!

[Midlodemocrat]

1. Dude. Calm down. People thrive on salicious gossip

especially when it is about someone we despise.

Obama is taking the high road so we don't have to.

And, that POS Palin made her family an issue when she dragged them up onstage touting what a perfect family they are. They're far from it.

You don't hear Obama doing that, and Hell, his family IS just about perfect. Almost as perfect as mine.

And, if Track Palin is indeed a drug addict, his unit should be made aware. He could endanger their lives.

[atreides1]

2. That's your choice

Others may have a different view, and they will make their choice.

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

But if we mention that her family is a cesspool of drug-crime the freepers will make fun of us!!!

[BlueInPhilly]

3. Normally, it shouldn't matter

until they begin touting family values and all that crap and how they are the "family values party". Then it becomes fair game - they are no longer just the candidate's children, they become the candidate's props. Hypocrisy - thy name is GOP!

[bbgrunt]

4. haha. you are a hoot.

[BOSSHOG]

If your post is sarcasm, its brilliant

I would suggest if palin's daughter's sex life is off limits so is everyone else's not just those in the families of those running for P and VP. Conservatives spend most of their lives obsessing over others sex lives and what they do with their bodies but now an unwed 17 year old in a family values institution is off limits?? the irony is not lost on me.

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

8. Not everyone reads OPs

I think the line about the school buses tips my hand as much as is nessecary.

:rofl:

[BOSSHOG]

10. And its quite brazen of you

to suggest the real father was flown in.

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

13. I have no idea who the real father is, and it's none of my business.

The kid they shanghaied and flew into the RNC might be the real father, for all I know.

But I am too refined to speculate about such things.

If the Republicans want to parade a family around that seems to be a dead-ringer for the family in POLYESTER that's their business, not mine.

[Midlodemocrat]

21. You have to remember that in GD-P things are moving really, really

fast lately and if your post is representative of your true beliefs, it might have been missed by the majority of DUers.

It was by me because I don't know where you stand on the family thing.

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

33. The Enquirer story is such a chamber of horrors I couldn't resist

It reads like a pitch for a John Waters movie.

I don't like people calling Bristol a "slut" but the litany of Jerry Springer atrocities has gotten so appalling that the idea of "keeping families out of it" is getting downright comical.

Palin is running as America's dream mom, and seems to have a singularly degenerate family. So it's becoming harder and harder to deny the nexus.

[blondeatlast]

25. But I saw that on a screen crawl on CNN: "Palin's son questioned for tampering with school bus

brakes?"

It's gotta be true or the nooz couldn't do that, would they?

[greguganus]

40. Are you sure it wasn't Geraldine Ferraro?

:rofl: (related to an earlier post about her on the crawl)

[11 Bravo]

15. BOSS! Welcome back!

I posted a week or so ago asking about your well-being. I was worried that Gustav might have messed with you. Glad you're OK, teammate.

[BOSSHOG]

20. Hello 11 Bravo

and thanks for the post. Gustav was a light breeze compared to Katrina (in our neck of the woods.) Had a yard full of brush and limbs to haul off but other then that we are fine. Our Oak and Pine Trees get a nice airing out every now and then and thats not a bad thing. Always glad to be back, and we are thankful Ike hasn't moved us.

[TwilightGardener]

5. Indeed--the family's grotesque dysfunction and sordid

behavior are really none of our business. I refuse to delight in the fact that they make Jerry Springer families look functional by comparison. Shame on us.

[BonnieJW]

6. That is very difficult to do when

Gov. Palin parades them at every opportunity. There's Bristol VERY pregnant in regular clothes rather than maternity clothes so we can SEE how pregnant she is, holding hands with the kid who knocked her up. There's Sarah scooping up her 4-month old baby and then turning him around so he is facing the audience so everyone can plainly see that he has Down Syndrome.

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

16. It's none of our business that she has raised a brood of

promiscuous, drug addicted criminals.

I mean, c'mon... her values and judgment are obviously irrelevant to her fitness as president of the United States.

[juajen]

51. OMG, this is too much. It hasn't been that long ago, a few days, that

someone on here was complaining that she was hiding her ds baby so that no one could see its face, and that he was probably drugged because he was so quiet. Too much, is too much. You know how the hostility towards Hillary Clinton has hurt Obama? Why don't you just jeopardize his candidacy again. Keep it up until the sympathy factor is huge for her among women all over this country.

[terrya]

7. The late night comics will be doing it, anyway.

[JVS]

9. America is a land of Family Values™, and neither party can let the other one backslide on this

It would harm the children

[coalition_unwilling]

11. And CHILD ABUSE is as American as (Republican) cherry pie - n/t

[BlooInBloo]

12. Back to your bridge.

[ensho]

14. No - you are wrong - family and parenting are important

every politician comes with strings attached to family. they cannot be ignored.

("or else" - what are you threatening?)

[Douglas Carpenter]

17. the official Obama campaign does have to keep its distance I agree. Or at the very least maintain

water-tight plausible deniability.

That is absolutely essential!

But if Palin - ends up the potential Commander and Chief of the strongest military power in the history of the world - someone who believes that we are living in the "end of times" and America is mandated by God to lead the Battle of Armageddon -countless children and families will be facing a far greater threat then some nasty rumors from tabloid scandal sheets.

Just imagine the potential consequences of such a person controlling the launch codes of the world's largest nuclear arsenal - capable of obliterating the human race.

[wvbygod]

18. Palin sabotaged the brakes on school buses???

I heard air was let out of some bus tires in Alaska. Nothing about brakes until this.

Where can I read more about Palin sabotaging the brakes on school buses? Did they
prosecute him and is they a record of it on file somewhere?

[blondeatlast]

28. CNN screen crawl; I saw it myself: "Palin's son questioned in school-bus brake tampering?"

Word for word.

Word!

[wvbygod]

32. Cool, but how to change "questioned" to "charged with"?

That would be the bomb.

[blondeatlast]

39. I think that's up to Wasill authorities, not us. nt

[glancingthefuture]

19. Off to the Greatest and Thank you for the OP. Lets listen to Sen. Obama who

asked us to lay off the families.

But there was no need to include the rumor mill rumors in your OP.

[lumberjack_jeff]

22. LOL! Who needs a sarcasm tag! n/t

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

24. Moi? Sarcastic? Perish the thought.

[lumberjack_jeff]

26. Irony is half your audience missing the point.

Art is when 90% does.

:hi:

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

47. And DU is 99%

[Voice for Peace]

23. You're right. The serious problems within her own family don't necessarily mean she shouldn't be in

charge of the whole country.

[Patient]

27. Sorry, doesn't fly.

I don't understand how after months of relentless attacks against Obama and his family's personal endeavors where the spotlight of every media outlet in this country, that Palin who makes those claims about him look like a trip to Disneyland. . Is suddenly "Off limits".

This woman is corrupt, her family's antics goes against everything she says she stands for and she finds it quite easy to go on the attack, then cry "Foul" when she is put under the microscope.
Don't like the heat, then don't play with fire, it's not our fault that McCain decided to pick someone to "Win" instead of someone with "The means to better this country".

I think that for the most part family business should stay out of politics, but when it involves someone that can potentially be the most powerful person in the world, the rules change.

[blondeatlast]

30. Welcome to DU. It helps to bring a sense of humor and an appreciation for irony here.

GD/P gets more than a little rough at times.

[IndianaGreen]

29. Americans love drama with a healthy dose of sex and drug scandals

The Peyton Place Palins are a perfect example of a dysfunctional family wrapped in the flag of religious virtue.

[azmouse]

31. I get it and I love it!

:applause:

[Phredicles]

34. Won't somebody PLEASE think of the children!

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

35. THE ARISTOCRATS!

[Duncan Grant]

36. Typical American kids. What family is without these sort of antics?

Our kids need a little more Jesus and a little less "hip-hop" (if you know what I mean). If it works for the Palins, it'll work for the rest of America. Believe me.

[WinkyDink]

37. I'll delight in any da*n thing I want. And I suspect you will, too. ;)

[regularguy]

38. And just because she sacrifices children to Baal...

I mean who are we to judge, yknow?

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

44. Can we assume Baal doesn't demand virgin sacrifice?

[qwlauren35]

41. Or else we might win???? And you forgot one...

but it's too late to keep "Judge accuses Palin of Child Abuse; Sister Loses Custody over Troopergate Scandal" out of the news. It just needs to make headlines with the National Enquirer.

We should pay the Enquirer to run that headline! :evilgrin:

I think that's worse than oral sex with an intern. But that's just me, and it was over 8 years ago.

[Politicub]

42. Seeing that I'm not Palin's press release writer or

publisher of the National Enquirer, I'm unable to honor your request of keeping the family out of it. Sorry. I suggest you take it up with them. Palin's press release writer for the announcement about Bristol, and the Enquirer for its most recent cover. Maybe they'll listen to you. Otherwise, you're blaming the wrong crowd.

[nichomachus]

43. When she keeps her politics out of my family, I'll keep her family out of politics

Until then, screw 'em all -- wait a minute, too late, somebody already has.

[juajen]

53. If she had, would you then have complained that she was ashamed

of her own children, she must have something to hide? Just sayin'. Never mind, ya'll don't have to answer. I'll go take a break.

[RememberWellstone]

45. Agreed

High road always leads to victory.

[ContinentalOp]

46. I couldn't agree with you more. We need to lay off of McCain's personal issues too.

McCain's potentially serious cancer problems are between he and his doctors.

His potential alzheimers is a delicate issue that should be dealt with between he and his family.

His angry, abusive verbal attacks against his current wife are a family matter and shouldn't have any bearing on the campaign.

His history of adultery and Cindy's history of drug abuse and theft are heartbreaking family problems that should be kept within the family.

[SurfingAtWork]

48. I get more pleasure reading the responses to OP's like these

Than I do the OP's themselves.



:thumbsup:

[dawgmom]

49. Yikes...some people around here need their satire gauges checked

This was brilliant. Thanks.

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

55. Quite welcome!

[eridani]

50. No reason why the National Enquirer shouldn't do it though n/t

[sniffa]

52. I agree with your premise

that we should not delve into the very poor parenting skills of the Palins.

:rofl:

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

54. Not my business if she sells the whole brood for medical experiments.

She's running for Vice President, not mother of the year.