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Do you think Sarah Palin made the right choice to become a VP candidate while her older daughter is pregnant? Should it have affected her decision?”

Asked by Work It, Mom! Team on 2nd September 2008 | 6 replies

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Palin's daughter is 17 and pregnant, I do not really understand what this has to do with her VP nomination! As we all know, kids do not always do what we say or follow the examples we lead. We love them and do the best we can. Palin's daughter is about to learn this much younger than she probably intended. I agree t his has nothing to do with Palin accepting the VP nomination. Why is this even an issue? I am more concerned with her standing on issues than i am with her children or future grandchildren. I disagree with her actual standing on just about every issue she outlined in her speach so no, i will not be voting for McCain/Palin. And that is what is should be about, where the candidates stand on issues that are important to the people of this country.

Do your research, vote for the candidate that supports your views. Not because someone's family and friends are people you like or dont like or who live their lives differently from you.

Flag as inappropriate Posted by Kate on 4th September 2008
I find that they are trying to downplay it very insulting to America. Any other time teenage pregnancy is looked down upon, but I feel that being she was picked for the VP that it's ok. I was a teenage mother at 19. It was such a diappointment for my family as well as myself. But I worked and got through just fine. But it was hard coming from my background. I had to drop out of school and go just part time while working. Then trying to find housing and taking care of a baby alone. Alot of opportunities were not presented to me because I was a teenage mother. But because this girls' mother is up for VP, it's ok. Everything will be ok for her. That makes it seem that teenage pregnancy is ok. Does anybody get that it's a reflection on her mother and her as well? Her mother is suppossed to be this conservative woman but her daughter is 5 months preganant? This is unpresedented. I've never heard of anybody having the gall to do such a thing and actually agree to be vice president and have their child pregnant. That means (holding my breath) that if McCain wins the presidency, he will have a VP that has a 17 year old child that will have a baby.
Everybody Knows that teenage preganancy is a fact. How those people react and and try to asses the situation is up to them. But teenage preganancy is not something that parents want their children to experience. The fact that Palin is the pick for McCain for the VP just puts the spotlight more harshly on their personal family choices. And it pushed teenage preganancy to the forefront of Americas minds. It's been there for years, but to now have a possible VP pick that has her daughter pregnant at 17 just made their job harder all around. People still deal with teenage pregnancy with shame and disappointment, they don't want anybody else to know.
I believe that she should have said no, this is a more prominant position than governor of Alaska, the whole world is watching therefore more pressure on her and her family. With her conservative views she should have thought about how that would make her look and what it would do to the campaign. I'm not for McCain, but from a former teenage mother I wish her the best.

Flag as inappropriate Posted by PullingmyHairOut on 4th September 2008
It absolutely matters that Sarah Palin's daughter is unmarried and pregnant at age 17 because Palin supports abstinence only programs which are not evidence-based or cost-effective. She most certainly should have declined the nomination, especially when McCain doesn't have the good judgement to pass her up.

Lest any think that the military blindly follows McCain, I am an active duty military member and work in a military medical center where everyday I see the gruesome toll that war takes on our troops AND their families ... double amputees with ng feeding tubes, burns leavng faces unrecognizable, PTSD ... placed in harm's way under false premises of WMDs never found. As such, I just cannot support McCain who is so closely aligned to the failed policies of G.W. Bush. (BTW, I was an avid supporter of Mccain in the last election, and was disappointed when he supported Bush's policies ...)

Flag as inappropriate Posted by KC on 3rd September 2008
As a veteran I already support McCain. I have a firm belief that if someone is going to be commander in chief of the the Armed Forces should have worn the uniform. He is very patriotic. Having said that I love the idea of Palin as VP. She has been commander in chief of Alaska and then the same for the city of Wasilla. I would pick less experience with a pattern of reform (she lowered her own salary and sold the previous governors jet) than an unexperienced Senator that has really questionable ties to very dangerous people.

McCain bled and was tortured for his country, I think he made a great choice for VP running mate.

As you can see I am a supporter. As a veteran, a former military wife, and a mother I have to be.

Flag as inappropriate Posted by Amanda on 3rd September 2008
I think her choice to continue to run was a good one.
It is her not her daughter who is running. This also shows that nobodys life is perfect or comes out the way you planned it, life is messy. That girl should have thought about what she was doing prior to sleeping around. Every action has a reaction. She has chosen a hard life being a teenage mom.
I think the focus should be on the candidate and her political history and accomplishments and her views and her focus.
Not on her home life - with the focus on a teenager. Who cares.
I think she is one tough cookie who is a great counter part to McCain.
should be a great showdown to see who wins.
The first Black man
or the first woman VP.
interesting and historical to say the least!!!
IMO

Flag as inappropriate Posted by DebR on 3rd September 2008
Yes, this should not have stopped her. She was already a public figure; her daughter wasn't going to escape some publicity about her pregnancy. She needs to tell her daughter that the publicity isn't about her, it's about whether people want Obama or McCain to be president. And she needs to support and love her daughter. But that doesn't mean she should drop everything because her daughter is about to be a mom a few years earlier than originally expected. Personally, I think that would send the wrong message to her daughter, to her constituents, and to the nation.

I mean, if Palin dropped out, how would that really help her daughter? Anyone out there who's had or known or been a daughter in that situation - how would the daughter be supported differently by a mom who is in a slightly dimmer spotlight?

Flag as inappropriate Posted by SKL on 2nd September 2008