Sarah Palin's abstinence problem

By now pretty much everyone who cares knows that Sarah Palin's 17 year old daughter is 5 months pregnant. If the McCain campaign is to be believed this was revealed before Sarah Palin was added to the ticket. This raises eyebrows on a few counts.

Apparently the girl will be marrying the dude who knocked her up. I`ll bet she will - all those shotguns her mom and dad keep around will come in handy now. Sarah Palin is an advocate of abstinence education, instead of teaching adolesents about birth control and safe sex. I wonder how that's working for her?

If it is true that Palin knew about her daughters pregnancy and told McCain about it it raises a few questions about her judgment and his. I`m sure Mrs. Palin loves her daughter, but she`s got a funny way of showing it. It doesn`t seem responsible to subject the young woman to this type of media scrutiny, nor the father of the child. For McCain`s part he chose a very under qualified Sarah Palin over many good candidates. She was supposed to appeal to the socially conservative base of the party. I`m not sure choosing a running mate with an unmarried, pregnant teenager, is really going to appeal to this wing of the party.

However, if he really wanted to have a running mate with these family values he didn`t need to go to Alaska - he could have found plenty in just about any trailer park in Arkansas. And it would have helped him lock up the south.