Palin's parenting skills need some work

It's not even that Palin appears, from many accounts, to be the sort of person whose opinion is the only one that matters, or that she was chosen to run with John McCain in the hopes female voters would be swayed from supporting Hillary Clinton over to the Republican ticket. It's not even that she likes to hunt – it's a way of life in Alaska.

It's the 'choice,' her daughter made to carry her baby to full term and keep it, rather than abort the pregnancy or put the child up for adoption. No, she's going to keep the baby and marry the father, another teen. File this one under 'it sounded like a good idea at the time,' and move forward, right?

Wrong.

Bristol Palin made the decision on her own to keep the baby, McCain aides said.

Good decision, everyone around her thought, especially her mother, whose political leanings and musings and platform suggest she would do everything in her power to deny the same choice to other women, including victims of sexual assaults.

In fact, right-wing websites laud her 'decision' to 'choose life.'

I laud it as well. In fact, I think every woman should have that choice. I mean, it's their lives, right?

And spare me the religious or biblical implications of my decision to support abortion. I don't support abortion. I support the way of life that allows people who live in a country to choose what they do with their own bodies and what they don't.

I love that we have choice. I love that we have options.

Let Palin and her cronies have all the guns they want. In fact, it's their choice. Obviously, the right to bear arms is guaranteed in the U.S. Constitution because of the fiercely held belief that you have to protect your family and your homestead.

That sort of makes me wonder, though. In fact, if that's the case, and Palin and her husband are as a) protective and b) gun-savvy as they seem, how did the young man who forms the other half of the baby coupling even manage to worm his way into Bristol's pants with Sarah planting a shotgun muzzle into his cheek and asking him to make her day?

That question, I think, is the real quandary of this election season.