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I am glad to see people with 5 children, or coming from a small family like that, posting in about NathanJK's opinion.

Of course, being the 4th child out of six, I should not comment too much. Being the father of 7 means I get to joke about 5 being too small a family.

Seriously, Nathan, I am not sure of your post. When i first read it, I took it as tongue-in-cheek. After all, how can anyone really care that much about how many kid sshe has or what to name them? With some of the others taking it seriously, I have to wonder if I was wrong. Sometimes, I read sarcasm into comments because I would be that way.

So, do you support Palin or not? Personally, I think she is the best of the four names on the main ticket, President or VP.

drw wrote:If the announcement of Bristol's out of wedlock pregnancy was intended to combat the allegations about Trig, why not just make a statement denying the allegations? I'm struck that they have not come out and just said that Trig is Sarah's baby, period. Why not just face your accusers and make a firm statement?

I looked at this as a much more tactical decision than just denying the accusation. Think of what would have happened if they had not said anything now about the daughter's pregnancy, but just denied the claims. There would still have been lingering rumors and claims that could not be firmly squelched. And in a couple months, as it gets much closer to the election, the daughter's pregnancy would have come out anyway. It would have been a bombshell to drop just before the election and attack Palin's conservative credentials and her ability to raise her children the "right" way.

This way, the claims of the earlier baby being the child's are firmly disproven and can never be brought up again. They also make the liberals look much more like idiots for ever starting the rumors and claims. And, it stops the actual pregnancy from becoming an issue in the future.

All in all, I think announcing this now was a much better strategic move for the candidacy.