The Palin baby, Palin grandbaby and privacy – this should be an issue

Let’s cut past this BULLSHIT line of “privacy” that Sarah Palin is spouting about her daughter’s first, or second pregnancy.

First, when did the Religious Right part of the GOP start caring about people’s privacy, whether on reproductive choice, gay/lesbian sexuality, or even what movie you or I want to rent or download, in terms of sexual content?

They have MADE this a non-privacy issue, even if B.O. and his Kumbaya post-partisan-political world (Obama PPP in future references) will give her and Bristol a kid-gloves pass, in all likelihood.

A smart Democratic presidential candidate, or whomever, would say something like this:

We will agree that Bristol Palin’s pregnancy should be a matter of Palin family privacy as soon as Sarah Palin individually and the Republican Party collectively agree that one’s personal sexual choices, personal reproductive choices, and personal video viewing choices for 300 million Americans should be a matter of their privacy.

Don’t hold your breath.

But, he (and his blogging defenders at sites like TPM who accuse me of a National Review mentality) are wrong, if for no other reason than reversing Clauswitz and saying that American politics is war by other means.

Unfortunately, quasiliberal bloggers like Steve Benen at Washington Monthly are falling for the line that this should not be an issue.

Second, the gov brought up daughter Bristol’s first/second pregnancy on her own, in response to the rumors that the Gov’s alleged fifth child is actually her grandchild via Palin. As I’ve said before, the Gov had reason to do so, to keep her Good Mommyhood Seal of Approval™ from the Religious Right intact.

The fact she brought it up on her own means she’s gun-shy on this issue.

If MoveOn hadn’t been turds in a toilet and actually agreed to B.O.’s request to shut down 527 operations, we’d already be getting punches landed.

Third, beyond the idea that chances of a Down syndrome child increase with maternal age, the Gov. has otherwise addressed exactly none of the empirical issues that led to his speculation in the first place.

And, given my skeptical left-liberal take on BOTH parties of the two-party duopoly, this is a fitting post for No. 4,000 at this blog.

Update: More fun – a Palin spokesperson didn’t even know about Bristol’s pregnancy just two days ago.

Beyond being “more fun,” it would also be more confirmation of a motive the Gov. would have if she has a grandbaby already instead of a fifth daughter. And, that motive would be that she’s got practice at this type of deception, as well as shame over her daughter’s pregnancy.