Family values are not my main reason for choosing a candidate but, if they are important to you then, which party is a party of family values?
The one with a Presidential nominee that divorced his wife because she gained weight then married a beer heiress. The one with a VP nominee that married her husband and had a baby 8 months later and has a pregnant teenage daughter?
Or the one with a Presidential nominee with 1 wife and 2 kids. The one with a VP nominee that commutes home to Delaware every night since 1973 to be with his children after his wife and their mom died?
Republicans claim family values as their issue all of the time. But, their representatives often do not carry that torch very well. To be fair, many Democratic leaders also do not carry that torch but, they also do not claim a monopoly on the issue.
The big story from Labor Day has been Republican VP nominee Sarah Palin and her pregnant teenage daughter. Many argue, every time there is some sort of private matter made public involving a public official, that we should not care.
I disagree.
Palin is a woman whose policies affect every American's private life, so we should know hers. Any politician that wants to limit your personal freedoms, should have theirs examined. It is hypocritical of her to claim that she understands traditional values, when she does not uphold them. It is stupid of her to call for abstinence-only education, with a pregnant teenage daughter. It is missing the point to claim she sticks to her guns on abortion because, she has a baby with down syndrome.
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How exactly is Palin hypocritical by claiming to understand traditional family values? So maybe she had sex before marriage but she did marry the father and that was 20 years ago anyways and, like you've said before, that doesn't seem very relevant to now. Her teenage daughter being pregnant? That is not necessarily a reflection that Palin herself doesn't understand traditional family values. In fact, that's probably one of the reasons she calls for abstinence-only education, which would show that she does care about "upholding traditional family values". Yes, maybe it's stupid that after preaching traditional family values and knowing her unmarried eighteen year old daughter is pregnant she still believes in enforcing abstinence, but that is not evidence that she is not upholding or that she does not understand family values. Also, I'm not sure what you mean when you say "It is missing the point to claim she sticks to her guns on abortion because, she has a baby with down syndrome." I assume you mean that opposing abortion represents caring about traditional family values. But do you mean that many would support her choosing to oppose abortion when she could have chose not to have a baby with down syndrome (which seems like a clear example of upholding traditional family values)?
Bottom Line? I know that family values are not a main issue to you, but if you are making a point for people who do find it an important issue you should use a better case than Palin (a woman who married the father of her child and has been married for 20 years, has five children, who, despite her national spotlight and position for exploitation, chose to support her pregnant teenage daughter that has decided to have her child and marry it's father, and who also has the responsibility of caring for a handicapped child, while following her political career) or at least stick to entries where you can make stronger and more clear points that are more representative of your position.
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