In this context I don't think we are involved in hypocrisy. Because Palin is a Family Values VP for the right wing. And she must have known or should have known that her daughter's pregnancy would become public knowledge. So is it hypocritical if, Palin whose family values platform include, abstinence, no sex ed. or condoms and is a member of the Republican Party who believes in just say no and has a family member that contradicts those values. I believe that it is true hypocrisy is to hold a standard and belief to others, when you cannot instill those same values to your immediate family member.

McCain calling Chelsea Clinton ugly a direct attack on a person. Nothing about Sara Palin's daughter is a direct attack, but more of a reflection that Sara Palin cannot instill the Christian values, she claims to hold, into her children. And yet, she would want other's children to meet her--VP Palin's values standard--which she herself fails impress upon her own children.

We're not being hypocrites... we're calling for the truth to be uncovered.

This lying, scheming, oh-too-righteous fraud is avoiding taking personal responsibility for her own bad behavior and forcing society to cover.

A Down Syndrome child can cost $200,000 a year... for decades.  If the child isn't Sarah Palin's child, the insurance company that provides for government employees is going to have to eat the unnecessary expense.  And if she is elected VP, WE taxpayers will have to eat that expense for the life of the child.  If the child is Bristol's, no insurance company would cover an out-of-wedlock deformed baby... and an uneducated teenager is never going to earn enough to provide the 24 hour a day care.  Isn't that a motive for lying!!!!!  And there is a statement that Bristol is pregnant... again.  Down Syndrome is genetic.  There is a 1/4 chance that the new baby, if there is one, will also be deformed.  Who in hell is going to pay for that little error in judgment?

Does Ms. Palin's activities on the day of Trig's supposed birth reveal a caring, loving, intelligent adult concerned with family values?  Or an ambitious egocentric drama queen who needs to do the keynote speech come hell or broken water?  The entire saga of the airplane ride is unbelievable.  The fact that the hospital has no record of the birth at all is more than interesting.  Apparently her coddled doctor might be willing to fake a birth certificate, but the hospital won't... and scrubbed the doctor from their lists.

Her church calls for reforming gays, as though this can be prayed away, and she tried to fire a librarian who refused to ban books with what she thought was offensive language.  She fired and dismissed people who weren't sufficiently loyal and muzzled everybody else.  (Sounds like Monica Goodling, doesn't she?)  She wants a theocracy where creationism is taught in the schools, and funding goes directly into Christian coffers with all those faith-based initiatives.  She thinks that birth control (the pill) is abortion, so the privacy protections of Griswold would follow Roe into oblivion.

She chaired a 527 for Ted Stevens, one of the most corrupt of the Corrupt Old Farts Club... and there has been no record of how much money was raised or what it was used for.  None.  Zippo accounting.

The stuff being revealed about Troopergate shows fine family values, too.  She looked through the windows (peeping tom!) where her brother-in-law was allegedly arguing and threatening the family, and then drove to her meeting.  WTF!  What is more important... seeing if the 9 kids are ok, calling the police... or giving another speech?

She also wants Alaska to become independent of the United States of America!!!  Check out the A.I.P. and the founder's statements and her own addresses... is this patriotism?

I'm an Alaskan, not an American. I've got no use for America or her damned institutions." - Joe Vogler, founder of the Alaskan Independence Party.

How about the secessionist movement?  Ms Palin pledges allegiance to what country? Alaskadoria (or whatever they will name the new country after the AIP secedes)?  Is this gun fanatic in favor of civil war?  The Basque Separatists are declared terrorists, as are most others who want their own country enough to fight for it.  Will she declare war on anybody or entity who stands between her and the north slope oil?  Or is she so totally ignorant of Kurdistan, Kosovo, Ossetia, and the other bloody hellholes where oil wealth pays for the mercenaries?  Alaskans were already fretting about her desire to move the capitol out of Juneau... if Alaska becomes a sovereign nation, she'll have the opportunity to build a new capitol on top of the oil fields.  Petroliopolis?

If I was a Republican, I'd be getting as far away from this trainwreck as possible, so that the blood and mud surging out of the wilderness didn't besmirch me, but of course Dobson and Norquist have no shame.

In 3 days, the blogging community has uncovered what McCain's vetting crew didn't... and we've just begun.

There are reports that she lied about being Miss Congeniality (the woman who really won that title has stepped up).  There are reports that she hacked into a co-workers computer, contaminating the evidence, as well as all those scrubbed links and vanished pictures and edited Wikipedia entries.  There are reports that her bungled land deal while mayor will cost that poor (67% below poverty) town $20 million.  Because she botched the purchase, she tried to steal the land for an ice rink by using eminent domain.  Isn't THAT going to go over well with all those conservatives who don't like government seizing personal property?

It is like a ratty sweater... pulling on one tangle just releases whole loops and strings of information... and we have indeed just begun.

If SHE didn't flaunt her holiness and try to force it upon others, this wouldn't be nearly as satisfying.

so...we're supposed to delete diaries now?  

it's a long-held principle that bloggers are not responsible for everything written in the diary sections of their blogs or in the comments.