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The Candie's Foundation couldn't find anyone better than the Situation and Bristol Palin to promote safe sex and/or abstinence? Really? Was bigger celebrities like Ron Jeremy and Jenna Jameson busy?

Anyone notice that Bristol Palin has backed off her previous position that abstinence doesn't work.

"No, I don't want to get into detail about that. But I think abstinence is, like -- like, the -- I don't know how to put it -- like, the main -- everyone should be abstinent or whatever, but it's not realistic at all"

Bristol Palin Dancing in Monkey Costume

Words fail me.

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I'm sure Litbrit will love this. Bristol Palin makes her debut on Dancing With the Stars.

How Republicans Plan to Win in 2010

Republicans need to get Michael Steele's and Bobby Jindal's "off-the-hook" message more television time. Bristol Palin is helping spread the social conservative message that abstinence-only sex education is the only solution. If we learned anything, is that teenagers will always obey adults when told not to have sex.

What makes the Republican Party stronger than Democrats is when Republicans point out the political shortcomings of their 2012 presidential candidates.

"Remember, it was the base that rejected Mitt because of his switch on pro-life, from pro-choice to pro-life," Steele told the caller. "It was the base that rejected Mitt because it had issues with Mormonism. It was the base that rejected Mitt because they thought he was back and forth and waffling on those very economic issues you're talking about."

"So, I mean, I hear what you're saying, but before we even got to a primary vote, the base had made very clear they had issues with Mitt because if they didn't, he would have defeated John McCain in those primaries in which he lost," Steele concluded.

It helps the RNC Chairman's credibility to recant his statement on Romney.

"Chairman Steele regrets the way his comments have been interpreted," Republican National Committee spokeswoman Gail Gitcho said in a statement.

"Chairman Steele believes Mitt Romney is a respected and influential voice in the Republican Party and looks to his leadership and ideas to help move our party and our nation in the right direction."

Scientific theories can be tested to be proven or disproven. Religious and philosophical theories can not be proven in laboratory settings. Republican Bobby Jindal understands the best way to educate children and keep America a competitive industrial nation is to promote intelligent design as science. It matters not how many scientific organizations have rejected intelligent design as a science.



Republicans continue to comprehend that their support for Dick Cheney and torture policies will help the future of the party. Cheney's soaring 13 percent approval rating and people skills. It is common knowledge it is more productive to defend a no-longer-serving Vice-President of potential criminal offensives than to make attempts at crafting policy. It is better to be the Party Playing Political Defense than the Party of Ideas.

Bristol Palin Deserves Better

Bristol Palin and Levi Johnston have broken up. Republicans will continue to support abstinence-only education and make rants against fictional unwed mothers.

In 2007, a study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found unwed mothers made a record of 38.5 percent of all births. out-of-wedlock teenage pregnancies also spiked. The abstinence-only policy of the Bush administration was failing. Tony Perkins went in defense mode.

Family Research Council President Tony Perkins expressed his worries and stated that the so-called comprehensive protective effect of condoms promotes unsafe behavior. This results in an increase in STD (Sexually Transmitted Diseases) rates in young people, and an increase in out-of-wedlock teenage pregnancies.

Tony Perkins said,” What we’re really witnessing are the effects of contraceptive-focused sex education, often labeled as comprehensive sex education”. Tony Perkins further comments, “When people talk about ‘abstinence until marriage,’ both parts are important”.

Columnist Maggie Gallagher was paid $21,500 by the Department of Health and Human Services to promote Bush's marriage initiative in 2002. Gallagher was paid to promote abstinence until marriage. The scandal would have gotten Gallagher fired from most American publications. (Tucker Carlson was booed by stating the need for the conservative media to have ethical standards.) Gallagher's editor Rich Lowry did not see any reason to fire Gallagher.

"We would have preferred that she told us, and we would have disclosed it in her bio." Lowry told Howard Kurtz.

Gallagher is writing for the Washington Times. She weighed in on Bristol Palin's Fox News interview.

Note: I wonder if Bristol really thinks sexual virtue is harder these days than it was, say, 30 years ago when her mom and I were teenagers. That would be circa 1979. I could tell Bristol some stories - the sexual revolution has been swinging pretty hard for a good long time now.

Gallagher goes on to write: "Is it really wise for an entire society to adopt the point of view of the average inarticulate 18-year-old kid?"

Did Gallagher actually watch the interview? I'm sure it was hard for Bristol to talk to a national television audience for the first time. Here were my thoughts about Bristol's interview.

I am glad Bristol Palin did the Fox News interview. She proved herself to be a very intelligent young woman. It was surprising to hear her say abstinence doesn't work. Bristol's mother, Sarah Palin supports abstinence-only sex education and has presidential ambitions. Bristol used her television time to tell other teens to wait before having a child.

Bristol has a good head on her shoulders. It is nice to see a real person and not a symbol for teen pregnancy. We need to understand issues affect the lives of Americans. The rhetoric of talk radio and cable news turns every issue into an us vs them event.

The abstinence-only advocates Perkins and Gallagher barely view young women, such as Bristol Palin, as real people. Gallagher's "I wonder if Bristol really thinks sexual virtue is harder these days" snark is evidence that social conservatives view unwed mothers with contempt. Miss Gallagher, Bristol Palin is the the one with the problem.

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"No. I don't want to get into detail about that. But I think abstinence is, like -- like, the -- I don't know how to put it -- like, the main -- everyone should be abstinent or whatever, but it's not realistic at all."

Bristol Palin

I am glad Bristol Palin did the Fox News interview. She proved herself to be a very intelligent young woman. It was surprising to hear her say abstinence doesn't work. Bristol's mother, Sarah Palin supports abstinence-only sex education and has presidential ambitions. Bristol used her television time to tell other teens to wait before having a child.

Bristol has a good head on her shoulders. It is nice to see a real person and not a symbol for teen pregnancy. We need to understand issues affect the lives of Americans. The rhetoric of talk radio and cable news turns every issue into an us vs them event.

I didn't buy that momma Sarah didn't know about the interview until the day before. Momma Sarah's surprise appearance came off a bogus. Palin's spiel about how it is not government's role to help teen mothers bothered me. Palin vetoed funds for Passage House. The facility is used to house teen mothers. There is a difference between being conservative and throwing young mothers out on the street. Palin is a conservative, but lacks compassionate.