Quote of the Day

"Explicit sex-ed programs will not find my support."

Sarah Palin, on a 2006 Eagle Forum questionnaire. I'm not shocked that Palin's daughter Bristol is pregnant. The Republican establishment really isn't socially conservative. In fact, they hate the Christian Right. Tucker Carlson made that clear to Chris Matthews.



CARLSON: It goes deeper than that though. The deep truth is that the elites in the Republican Party have pure contempt for the evangelicals who put their party in power. Everybody in…

MATTHEWS: How do you know that? How do you know that?

CARLSON: Because I know them. Because I grew up with them. Because I live with them. They live on my street. Because I live in Washington, and I know that everybody in our world has contempt for the evangelicals. And the evangelicals know that, and they're beginning to learn that their own leaders sort of look askance at them and don't share their values.

MATTHEWS: So this gay marriage issue and other issues related to the gay lifestyle are simply tools to get elected?

CARLSON: That's exactly right. It's pandering to the base in the most cynical way, and the base is beginning to figure it out.

What matters is that voters figure it out.

The base hasn't figured that out. Peer Review defends Palin's hypocrisy and predicts the attacks will backfire. The fall out has already been bad. Jamie Lynn Spears has come to the rescue and defended Bristol. You may remember the McCain campaign's attempt to link Barack Obama to Jamie's older sister. The Spears family can hardly be considered role models. There is also the negative US Weekly cover.



Democrats aren't attempting to ram unsuccessful abstinence-education programs down America's collective throats. Palin used a line item veto to cut housing for teen mothers.

According to Passage House's web site, its purpose is to provide "young mothers a place to live with their babies for up to eighteen months while they gain the necessary skills and resources to change their lives" and help teen moms "become productive, successful, independent adults who create and provide a stable environment for themselves and their families."

Pathetic.

Update: I forgot that McCain didn't vet Palin until after he offered her the VP candidacy.