Ok, fair enough I guess.........gotta wonder why the daughter is even being brought up then(where's the raise one eye-brow emoction?) if this is not about her judgement; if it's truly just about Palin's stance on abstinance education you would think facts and figures would be enough to prove she's wrong(unless.....well, we won't go there;) )

Depends on what Alaska's laws are. What's mildly ironic is that Palin claims to be proud of the decision her daughter made when she would take that decision away. Theoretically, of course. The children of governors will probably always be able to make decisions.

I found that statement ironic also! Plus if she doesn't believe in abortion what else was she going to do, give it up for adoption just because it is special needs?!

Hmm... here is how the scenario supposedly panned out over this past weekend:

Rumor: Palin's new baby is actually her daughter's, and Palin adopted her!

To quash this rumor, Palin's camp announces, "No, it's not possible for this, because look look! The daughter IS PREGGERS *NOWWWW* and count backwards! See?!? Proof! Oh wait... yeah um... she is still only 17 and um... she's unwed... BUT SHE'S GETTING MARRIED SOON! HAPPY DAYS ARE HERE AGAIN!"

Well, the embellishments are mine.

But supposedly the revelation about the daughter was in response to trying to squelch a rumor.

Perhaps; but I am kinda thinking the media would have figured it out pretty quickly and she just wannted to beat them to the punch...my take anyway.

Actually, they tried what they could to try to conceal the pregnancy. They shunted the daughter off once she started to show, and during the VP announcement, she was holding Palin's baby and covering herself up with the drool blanket across her entire front:

They also showed her with a blanket or bag in front of her when she wasn't holding the baby. It looked like a bad editing job on a TV show when they are trying to hide a pregnancy.

As I mentioned, I find it highly unlikely that the Trig rumor was birthed, so to speak, entirely separately from the truth about Bristol. What's most likely is that her camp was either working to hide Bristol's pregnancy, or at least hide it long enough to announce it under their own terms. Someone without any real details got clued into something fishy going on, saw some email or other about Bristol and a pregnancy, and jumped to a conclusion. That seems to me the most likely scenario.

They should have just hired a double.

Despite the public pronouncements on the issue I am still suspecting that the phrase "pregnant unwed teenage daughter" never came up in the vetting process.

For me her personal family issues are nothing more than a highlight to the much more important issue of her views on sex education.