As I Twittered the other day, I think Bristol Palin should take an abstinence pledge…to abstain from lecturing people about abstinence pledges. Just about the only thing that woman is known for is that hers didn't work so well. Frankly, I don't think they accomplish much except to allow parents to put blinders on and pretend they've done something that will prevent their kids from having sex. It's so much easier than teaching them how to be responsible.
There are many articles out there about the utter silliness of Bristol's position but maybe the most interesting is one by Meghan McCain, daughter of You-Know-Who. I agree with most of it except for when, regarding abortion, she says, "That's the kind of trust my parents have always placed in their children — yet the GOP still needed to get involved and have a say in what I did with my body." Someone explain to this lady that her father is part of that group; its most recent leader, in fact.
And I still think that if it had been a Democratic candidate whose daughter had gotten pregnant out of wedlock, every single vocal Palin supporter would have been out insisting that it proved the candidate was an unfit parent and therefore unfit for public office. I don't think that but they would have.