On Monday, 9/1 Reuters reported "The 17-year-old unmarried daughter of Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin is pregnant, Palin said on Monday in an announcement intended to knock down rumors by liberal bloggers that Palin faked her own pregnancy to cover up for her child". You now have Republican's tripping all over themselves saying how this is a story that involves a candidate's child and should not be the fodder of Presidential politics.  This raises several questions in my mind. 

(1)   Couldn’t Sarah Palin have rebutted the rumors of her being the actual mother of her disabled child, without outing her and divulging that her daughter was currently pregnant?

(2)   What kind of mother throws her own daughter under the bus like this, knowing how the national press was going to go after this story?

(3)   If she was not aware that the national press would chase this story to the degree they have, doesn’t that say she is not ready for prime time politics?

(4)   Could this have just been a convenient way of Republican’s getting the issue out and trying to switch the story to those mean liberal bloggers, instead of the obvious hypocritical contradictions in the “family values” party position?

(5)   Why should this story be off limits now, when it wasn’t off limits to Sarah Palin, who used it to further her own political career?