“Forget all her so-called family values and politics.  Assuming that McCain actually did know beforehand about Bristol Palin being pregnant,  that means he decided Bristol’s situation would somehow be beneficial to his campaign.  In other words, he would use Bristol Palin’s problems to promote his presidential chances.  Otherwise, he would have decided it would have a negative impact, in which case he would have eliminated her from the selection process and picked someone else before her name even came up. 

So what is that advantage? 

And what was Sarah Palin thinking?  What did she see as her advantage in going forward with her candidacy, knowing that her daughter was pregnant?  Certainly she must see some political gain being made from this, or why put her daughter through what will certainly be an incredible amount of unnecessary psychological stress brought on by the media scrutiny she will undergo over the next two months. 

Somehow I feel I’m watching something pretty sick, especially when I think of all the undeserved stress this 17 year old girl is about to be exposed to, in the interests of furthering her mother and John McCain‘s political careers. 

Any thoughts?  If people write things, I’ll pass it around my circles.  I feel there’s something really fundamental and scary here that the Republicans are planning, something really emotionally manipulative that we need to get a handle on, and quick.”

Jack

Family Therapist