Bristol Palin Pregnant

The McCain campaign announced this morning that Governor Palin's oldest daughter is about five months pregnant.

I don't even know what to say, except that teen pregnancy is about to become a Top 10 campaign issue for 2008.

Bristol Palin made the decision on her own to keep the baby, McCain aides said.

"We have been blessed with five wonderful children who we love with all our heart and mean everything to us," the Palins' statement said.

"Our beautiful daughter Bristol came to us with news that as parents we knew would make her grow up faster than we had ever planned. As Bristol faces the responsibilities of adulthood, she knows she has our unconditional love and support," the Palins said.

The Palins asked the news media to respect the young couple's privacy.

"Bristol and the young man she will marry are going to realize very quickly the difficulties of raising a child, which is why they will have the love and support of our entire family. We ask the media, respect our daughter and Levi's privacy as has always been the tradition of children of candidates," the statement concluded.

I feel like I've been sucked into an ABC Family made-for-TV movie.

Faaaake... [ace] She's faking the pregnancy to cover for the fact that her mom actually just got pregnant again, and the birth is very dangerous and she should abort but because she's a fundie she won't, so we're supposed to believe the "daughter" is "pregnant" and then, gee, Sarah Palin will gain weight at the same time, "coincidentally."

Right [ace]: George Orwell--

It's not fair, not rational, not even comprehensible, but right now Andi Sullivan is doing a victory dance around a photo of McCain and Palin floating in jar of his own urine, while wearing his best set of Blahnik pumps and a dressing gown printed with a pattern of beagles fellating each other.

"Now we move on to the daughter."

It's amazing to me that Karl Rove got them to bite on the fake Sarah Palin pregnancy to make the real pregnancy seem like "no big deal."

Hurmph. Okay, I messed this up. [Gabe] We've got a double post. I tried to get rid of this one and when I removed it we lost some of your comments. But it looks like this one is here to stay. Consider this story big enough for two.

posted by Gabriel Malor at 12:34 PM

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