Comes word that Sarah Palin's 17 year-old daughter is pregnant, and the lefty blogs are in a tizzy. What political dunces. Imagine how receptive women all across this country, wrestling with trying to balance family and career, and struggling with both, are going to be to hearing these adolescent male bloggers yelling about what a bad mother Sarah Palin must be to allow her daughter to get pregnant.
It won't be pretty.
We're also hearing that the young Palin daughter's pregnancy somehow puts the kibosh on mom's argument for abstinence-only education, but I don't see how. Are we to conclude that a program is a failure if it doesn't achieve 100% success? If so, then what should we make of the fact that one out four New York City residents, most of whom are products of schools with very liberal sex education policies, is afflicted with genital herpes. Whatever we can conclude, one thing is certain: Had these herpes sufferers practiced abstinence they wouldn't have herpes.
It's ludicrous to judge a program, or the wisdom of a mother's support for it, on the basis of one young girl's mistake, but then the media interest in Bridget Palin's pregnancy is surely not about abstinence-only education. It's about doing whatever can be done to make Sarah Palin look foolish.
RLC
