Palin tries to score points by dragging on about Letterman joke

June 16, 7:49 PMCincinnati Liberal ExaminerJay Riestenberg

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Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin, the 2008 Republican Vice Presidential candidate, continues to criticize David Letterman’s joke about her 18 year old daughter getting “knocked up” by Yankees baseball player Alex Rodriguez. Palin, who attended a Yankees game with her younger 14 year old daughter during her visit to New York City, took the joke personally and thought it was about her younger daughter. Now, Sarah Palin & David Letterman are in a heated battle of exchanging words, one Letterman would probably rather not be in and one Palin can’t get enough of.

Letterman understood how Palin could take the joke the wrong way, apologized and said the joke was in bad taste. Palin did accept the apology, but continues to lash out at Letterman. So, the question arises: why would the governor want to put herself and her family through this by continuing to argue with Letterman? Well, her motives are obvious. She wants to score political points over this mess. What better way to score political points with the Christian right than attack a late night comedian over a stupid joke about pre-marital sex.

After the 2008 election John McCain was rarely in the media, but Sarah Palin unfortunately never went away. Like it or not, Palin is running for president in 2012 and she kicked off her campaign on November 5, 2008, the day after she lost the vice presidency. By attacking Letterman, she scores points with conservatives who don’t find a joke about an 18 year old getting pregnant very funny. At the same time she can cover up the fact that her 18 year old daughter did get pregnant and was forced to get engaged during the 2008 campaign so the GOP and McCain-Palin campaign didn’t lose the family values debate. Palin’s daughter and the fiancé broke up after the campaign was over.

It is true. Sarah Palin & the GOP are doing the family values dance again. I guess all the talk of abortion and religion overshadows real problems in the American family for republicans. Healthcare, poverty, and education are all important family value issues, correct? Yet, the GOP defines family values within the realm of being against women’s rights, marriage for all, and thinking that an American nuclear family in 2009 can be like the Cleavers of Leave It To Beaver. So, while Sarah Palin scores political capital on ridiculous jokes about her family all while making the GOP’s favorite argument that good God fearing conservatives know how raise children better than everyone else, many American families are wondering how they are going to start a family in a city full of crime and poverty, be able to pay their health insurance bills, and send their children to schools that aren’t failing. Sure, republicans are for family values, right up to the birth of the first child.
 

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