The Mad Rants of an Unconventional Soccer Mom

The Washington Post is on fire tonight. Here's their latest reporting:

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, the Republican vice-presidential nominee who revealed Monday that her 17-year-old daughter is pregnant, earlier this year used her line-item veto to slash funding for a state program benefiting teen mothers in need of a place to live.

Honestly, at first this was fun to me.  The woman is a real nut-job and it was amusing watching McBush try to spin all of the stuff they missed while "vetting" her.  Now I am just pissed and worried that there is a chance that people might actually vote this ticket in.  I mean Shrub did get selected twice and we are still using diebold voting machines.

According to Passage House's web site, its purpose is to provide "young mothers a place to live with their babies for up to eighteen months while they gain the necessary skills and resources to change their lives" and help teen moms "become productive, successful, independent adults who create and provide a stable environment for themselves and their families."

So this asshole, holier-than-thou nut-job who, as is turns out, was knocked up before she eloped...who believes she has a right to dictate what a woman can and cannot do with her own body...who voted to refuse sex education in schools, and who wants to deny access to protection for teens is now responsible for throwing young mothers and their babies out on to the streets. How very FUCKING Christian of her! I just love how every life is “precious” to them…at least while it is in the womb. After that who cares if the kid starves to death or is homeless or is sent off to die in a war so that Cheney's oil buddies can make a pretty penny.

I am so tired of rules and religious convictions only applying to certain people. If you're the governor and your daughter gets knocked up, she can go live in one of your three houses.  If you're some poor girl with no family you get no empathy, no compassion. They call you a sinner and kick you to the curb.