Word: bristol
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...that Palin will help calm the doubts of that core Evangelical base and leadership. While many pundits have wondered whether social conservatives will recoil from the news that Palin's 17-year-old daughter is five months pregnant, they're clearly not grasping the mores of that community. If Bristol Palin were the daughter of Democratic parents, she would undoubtedly be held up as an example of the failures of a liberal, permissive culture. Instead, she is viewed - as are the majority of teenage mothers in Evangelical churches - as a Christian who sinned, is forgiven, and needs to be embraced...
...Life happens.' STEVE SCHMIDT, John McCain spokesman, after running mate Sarah Palin confirmed that her unmarried 17-year-old daughter Bristol (right) is pregnant...
...moment when John McCain invited Palin to become the first woman on a Republican ticket. Together they could make history, perhaps make the world a better place. I have to wonder: Did she know her daughter would become a late-night punch line? However unconditionally supportive, did she tell Bristol she'd have to stay backstage or hold her baby brother in pictures in a way that hid her own baby until a media strategy had been set for telling the public her most private secrets? Ordinarily, such revelations are choreographed well in advance - only this time, there...
...Throughout the evening, Palin's daughter Bristol and Bristol's fiancé Levi sat in the front row, the focus of a thousand cameras and 40 million attitudes, holding hands, hanging tough, thinking Lord knows what as they face a trial that nothing in their short lives could have prepared them for. With the whole family gathered onstage when Palin finished, she held baby Trig in her arms and you felt the shattered glass raining gently down. It was a night when everyone was tested in different ways, everyone had a surprise, and so much remains to be seen...
...think the pregnancy of Bristol Palin is a non-issue," Weatherl said, "and I'm disgusted by the fringe elements on the left that are trying to politicize this sensitive, personal family matter...