Twisted Spinster

When I first read about the pregnant Palin daughter pregnancy (the real one, that is), I was, I admit, a tad disappointed. I am always disappointed when I hear about high school girls who aren’t married getting pregnant, but to be honest that’s because I don’t get the whole high-school-love, I-want-babies mentality, and I never did. When I was in high school I didn’t even date, and the whole idea of love-‘n’-hugs made me go “ugh,” not “awwww.” And I disapprove of high schoolers having sex anyway. For one thing, it’s so common. I’ve never understood the herd instinct. But at least Bristol and her paramour are getting married — that’s not common, at least not these days.

Anyway, I find it… amusing that some of my fellow* rightwingers have their underwear in a twist over this. (As for what lefties are saying, let us pass over such inanity in silence.) And here’s why, two words: Ronald Reagan. Or has everyone forgotten his rather famously dysfunctional set of kids? And Ronnie was even divorced once! The horror! But it’s all okay, because it’s Saint Reagan. And he’s not the only one. Democrats aren’t the only people with wacky relatives. Excuse me if I find the pronouncements from some high horses rather hypocritical. Why all of a sudden are we buying the leftist demand that Republicans have perfect families in order to qualify for office? We didn’t before. Why the change now? Are we so insecure that we have to flip out over the least little thing the way lefties do? I thought we were the ones wearing the grown-up pants.

*Updated — I had “so many rightwingers” when in fact most rightwingers have been sympathetic and understanding. So I changed it to “some of my fellow rightwingers.”