and maybe John Edwards was really the father, too

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For the love of God, people, can we drop this nonsense about how maybe Trig Palin is really Sarah Palin's granddaughter?  Christ on a crutch.  This story is so stupid it makes the "Barack Obama in a limousine with cocaine and gay hookers" line sound like an NPR report.

At the moment the Democrats are not, for once, the dumbest party in the country.  Let us please keep it that way for another few months.  Thank you.

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[lhn.livejournal.com]

Is her husband going to quit his job to provide childcare for the 5 kids while she campaigns?

He seems to have already done that (http://dwb.adn.com/news/politics/story/8924080p-8824177c.html) when she became governor:

Until recently, he earned hourly wages as a production operator in a BP-run facility that separates oil from gas and water. Palin was making between $100,000 and $120,000 a year before he went on leave in December to make more time for his family and avoid potential conflicts of interest.

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"...There are lots of things I would never want to take away from him, but this is something he's enthused about."

Those things include taking care of their four kids and escaping into the Alaska wilderness to fish commercially, hunt or train for the Tesoro Iron Dog, billed as the longest, toughest snowmobile race in the world. The Palins have a son, Track, 18, and three daughters, Bristol, 16, Willow, 12, and Piper, 6.

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At home, Palin takes care of the cooking, the bills and other domestic paperwork, in addition to driving the kids to extracurricular activities like basketball and soccer, according to his wife. He divides much of his time between Wasilla, where Track is recovering from shoulder surgery, and the capital in Juneau, where the Palin daughters are in school.

"He can go on just an hour or two of sleep a night. He says, 'I can sleep when I die,' " said Sarah Palin. "There is no way I could have done this job without his tremendous contributions to the home life. He's able to keep it organized, like a well-oiled machine."

Irrelevant to the issue, but an interesting bit of trivia: Todd Palin is a quarter Yu'pik. (I don't know if that locks up the critical Eskimo vote or not. :-) )

But if she's going to campaign on how her example proves you don't need birth control or abortion

She's opposed to abortion, but pro-contraception (http://dwb.adn.com/news/politics/elections/governor06/story/8049298p-7942233c.html).

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She's opposed to abortion, but pro-contraception.

She can't be that pro-contraception if she has said she will not allow sex-ed classes (much harsher wording than simply preferring abstinence). Or is one allowed contraception, but not training in how to use it? Contraception - but only after marriage?

Does that make her pro-contraception-choice?

*blink*

Thanks for the info on the childcare issue, by the way. Interesting reading.

[lhn.livejournal.com]

The only thing I can find for Palin on sex-ed is a one-sentence answer from a candidate questionnaire (http://eagleforumalaska.blogspot.com/2006/07/2006-gubernatorial-candidate.html):

Will you support funding for abstinence-until-marriage education instead of for explicit sex-education programs, school-based clinics, and the distribution of contraceptives in schools?

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SP: Yes, the explicit sex-ed programs will not find my support.

Unless there's somewhere that "explicit sex-ed programs" is clarified, or where she actually acted on legislation on the subject, this doesn't really tell us much about what, if any, sex-ed she considers appropriate. "Explicit" may only denotate "clear and detailed", but the word's connotations are close enough to "porn in the classroom"-- probably intentionally, given that the questionnaire came from the Eagle Forum-- that I suspect most politicians would steer clear of it in anyplace remotely conservative.