What I found fascinating was how her resignation speech was a string of non-sequiturs, just shorthand hot button words that, taken together, actually didn't say anything.

And speaking of the Alaska Independence Party (I think that's the name of the secessionists), have you noticed how many Republicans talk about secession these days? The Governor of Texas was talking about it a while back, and someone else in the South.

I don't particularly like 'The world certainly does not need more babies with Down's Syndrome'.

'Need' has nothing to do with it.

You REALLY have to be careful with this path. A Down's does not 'need' to live, but then none of us do.

You will never find happier human beings than the vast majority of Down's. Frankly there is a touch of ignorance in your statement, and in some of the responses. Maybe if 90% were not aborted, people would be more familiar with them. I promise you, many of the remaining 10% have brought joy to their respective families with their happiness and unconditional love.

My uncle was a Down's, in a time that they were call 'mongoloids'. The only regret my grandparents had was when my grandmother got to old to care for him, and put him in a home. He died soon after, at 47 years old. It broke her heart.

I never saw Vernon angry, I never saw him sad.

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But her announcement was bizarre. It was like a bunch of stump speech cliches thrown together with some basketball strategy and liberals hate Trig.

As far as righties concerned about lefties' always picking on poor Sarah, I'm just waiting until the cameras go off and she can become the answer to a trivia question.

That was a weird and even shocking statement. The goal should be to prevent birth defects, not promote them. The world does not "need" more babies with severe birth defects who may never be able to live on their own and who are likely to have serious health problems all their lives.

I don't fault Sarah Palin or anyone else for choosing to carry her pregnancy to term after discovering they are a baby with Down syndrome as long as they are willing to make the preparations and personal sacrifices necessary to properly care for that person and guard his health and well-being for the rest of his life. People with Down syndrome have lifelong, often very serious, health challenges. Even very high-functioning people with Down syndrome need someone in their lives who will protect them from being taken advantage of by unscrupulous, unethical people. And they had better understand that "the rest of his life" could continue after his parents are dead and gone.

Sarah Palin was not prepared to make even small sacrifices on behalf of Trig. Instead, she risked his life and health both before and after he was born. If she has finally corrected her priorities, then good for her. Somehow I doubt very seriously that is the case. It almost never is with narcissists.