Palin had side order of Rice before marriage

Spindrift said:
No, I believe they would phrase it as "She had sex out-of-wedlock". THE HORROR!

ETA: I'm not condemning her, I'm just enjoying the schadenfreude.
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So did her daughter. I didn't care about that either, although I can see why some might. I think she's hot.
 
A Laughing Baby said:
And besides, among most of the staunch evangelical population, sex out of wedlock is something that they frown on but not a Big Bad Thing that causes you to lose their support. At worst, she'd lose the support of some SUPER hardcore fundamentalists, but the rest of the hard religious folks will just say "well, people make mistakes when they're young" and move on. It's not like she had Barack Obama's abortion or something.
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Really? The hard religious folks just forgive and forget?
 
I'm with A Laughing Baby on this one. What's the point? You can't even call her a hypocrite on this one unless her view at the time was that one night stands are wrong. This is a huge non-issue.

Besides to some basketball players who are holding out hope that they still have a shot.
 
I would agree that this shouldn't matter, except that Glen Rice was notoriously weak on defense. And this is the woman you want to fight Al Qaeda?

Come on people, think! We're at war!
 
tyr_13 said:
I'm with A Laughing Baby on this one. What's the point? You can't even call her a hypocrite on this one unless her view at the time was that one night stands are wrong.
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There is her position on abstinence-until-marriage as the only thing we should teach children about how to avoid unwanted pregnancies and STDs.
 
JoeTheJuggler said:
There is her position on abstinence-until-marriage as the only thing we should teach children about how to avoid unwanted pregnancies and STDs.
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And? Does that mean she's against adults learning about birth control and condoms?

Such a strategy might not be effective, but that doesn't mean it's hypocritical. And if the criticism is that it's not effective, well, her own personal actions don't really have any bearing on that.

The only reason that this is a story is because some of her critics think that they can humiliate her with it.

ETA: and not even just because it's sex-before-marriage. The whole "interracial" thing gets played up too. My guess is that they're hoping that "racist" tea partiers will get upset about that. But that won't happen, because they aren't really racist.
 
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Ziggurat said:
And? Does that mean she's against adults learning about birth control and condoms?
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Is having a one night stand the same as learning about birth control and condoms? She has clearly said she's in fair of abstinence until marriage.

The only reason that this is a story is because some of her critics think that they can humiliate her with it.
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The only reason it's a story is because it's in this book, and it's salacious.

The hypocrisy I think is from those who think Clinton's extra-marital consensual sex was grounds for investigation and eventually impeachment, yet Palin's is no big deal and that her privacy should be respected.
 
Ziggurat said:
ETA: and not even just because it's sex-before-marriage. The whole "interracial" thing gets played up too. My guess is that they're hoping that "racist" tea partiers will get upset about that. But that won't happen, because they aren't really racist.
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Your post is the first and only place I've seen this story connected to a racial angle. Who is this "they" that are that are hoping for tea partiers to get upset?
 
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