Critical Questions
Critical questions about our politicians must be asked. For all of those who say leave poor Bristol Palin alone because she isn’t running for office, screw you. Her mother is running for the second highest office in the land and her mother’s life, which means everything from her political dealings to her family, must be scrutinized. Sarah Palin and the Republican Party made family values part of their core message, so we are obliged to examine it. They cannot be allowed to hold up the candle of virtue without the risk of being burned by it.
Before we can trust a politician with our children, we must first trust them with their own. Sarah Palin is first a woman and mother, not a politician. Yet she waited four hours to give a speech after her water broke. She spent eight hours in total waiting to take another eight hour flight from Texas to Alaska. This is on top of the fact she was only eight months pregnant, which under normal circumstances is no big deal, but intentionally adding complications at this stage does engender very much trust. If a potential babysitter told me this, there is no way in hell I would hire her. Yet Sarah Palin says, ‘no big deal, please put me a heartbeat away from the presidency so I can make public policy affecting your children’. I don’t think so.
Not only did she make bad calls about her pregnancy, I think she intentionally endangered this child’s life. Rather than appearing to be a hypocrite and aborting a Down’s syndrome baby, which is often the recommendation of medical providers, she decided to carry it to term. The decision to abort a child is no doubt one of the most difficult ones any woman must face, but if you chose to go through with a pregnancy you must be fully committed to delivering a healthy baby. Her decisions about the delivery of this baby are at best foolish and at most criminally negligent of child endangerment. To me she seems to be a politician first and foremost and mother second. I am sure if her actions had caused the death of poor little Trig, there would have been a sad story to tell all the voters. No doubt it would have invoked God taking him up to heaven and sticking little angel wings on him. However, if Sarah Palin wasn’t the Governor of Alaska, but rather some low income black woman from Dayton, Trig (and possibly the rest of her children) would have been taken into protective custody and Children’s Protective Services would have put her under investigation.
Furthermore we need to scrutinize what sort of parenting Bristol got, and if it led to her behavior. While not all teen pregnancies are the fault of bad parents, we have to ask how Sarah Palin’s view on teen sex, pregnancy, parenting effected her family. What she believes is right and proper for hers will be made into public policy affecting your family. Who will support this child? If both Bristol and the father are in their teens, who will pay the medical and all other bills once they are married? Will political pressure or nepotism get him a job with enough pay and insurance to provide for a family? Will they, like most other young parents, be forced into welfare? Or will good old mom pay for it all and make sure everyone keeps their mouths shut to the press? She tried to kill her own inconvenient baby to keep from looking like a hypocrite, why not pay for the grandbaby to prove welfare isn’t necessary?
In the end the party of family values wants you to elect an angry old man primed for a heart attack and a mother who I wouldn’t trust with my cat much less my kids. Do you want a woman with a Down’s syndrome baby who cut funding for special needs education in her own state, to be a heartbeat away from the oval office? Do you want a woman advocating abstinence only education, yet can’t keep her own underage daughter from getting knocked up, to tell you how to raise your family? How far do you trust her with your kids?
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