Not a moment after the McCain camp officially announced that Palin was the VP pick did the Left-wing blogosphere start brewing scandalous rumors about Palin and her family. Within a day, a post appeared on the Daily Kos which suggested that Palin’s 5th child was actually Bristol’s child — and that Sarah was raising the child as her own to protect her daughter. Outrageous, yes, but questionable photos “allegedly” taken at certain dates were all the proof they could offer.

But it appears that Palin’s last child, a baby with Down’s syndrome, may not be hers. It may be that of her teenage daughter. I’m not quite sure what to think of this. Seeing as how she opposes abortion even in cases of rape and incest maybe she’s actually not a hypocrite.

Normally I’d say this is a totally private issue for them, but seeing as how she’s quite willing to butt into the private lives of every other American woman, I think it’s fair game.

Maybe one more abstinence-only supporting politicians will realize the limits of such an approach. Teens will do what they will do. It’s obvious Bristol would’ve been better served with a discussion about safe sex. Instead, she’s now facing a shotgun wedding to the baby’s father.

This allegation was only the beginning of the continuous attacks on the Palin family. Once the news broke about Bristol’s pregnancy, every media outlet in the nation had to publicize this fact. As soon as the news came out confirming Bristol’s (current) pregnancy, liberals started using the circumstances of a candidate’s 17-year-old daughter to destroy the credibility of her mother.

Katha Pollitt, over at The Nation said:

Palin is a rightwing-Christian anti-choice extremist who opposes abortion for any reason whasoever, except to save the life of the girl or woman… She wants to force over one million women and girls a year to give birth against their will and judgment. She wants to use the magnificent freedom the women’s movement has won for her at tremendous cost and struggle–the movement that won her the right to run those marathons and run Alaska — to take away the freedom of every other woman in the country…

Susan Reimer at The Baltimore Sun said:

Does McCain think we will be so grateful for a skirt on the ticket that we won’t notice that she’s anti-abortion, a member of the NRA and thinks creationism should be taught alongside evolution? …

You want to look good to the evangelicals? Choose a running mate with a Down syndrome child… If you are going to pick a woman for the sake of picking a woman, can you at least make it a credible choice?

A letter to the editor in the WashingtonTimes said:

by flaunting her pregnant, unmarried teenage daughter, she puts herself in a role of encouraging the condition rather than deploring and pitying it.

Amy Robach on the “Today Show” perpetuated the sexist attacks:

“The broader question if Sarah Palin becomes vice president, will she be shortchanging her kids or will she be shortchanging the country?“

Terry Trippany, in the Telegraph UK said:

I just hope poor Bristol had a say in it too and that she isn’t becoming a wife and parent at such a young age for reasons of political expediency and her mother’s soaring ambition.

ABC commentator, David Wright, called Sarah a “trophy running-mate”.

Andrew Sullivan (from what I can gather is perhaps one of the internet’s most-read bloggers) couldn’t help but to question her motherhood:

“She’s just had a baby. Can she be a full-time campaigner?“

Gary Kamiya at Salon said:

Sarah Palin is trying to seduce independent voters. But she comes across like a whip-wielding mistress who wants to discipline a naughty America.

You could practically feel the crowd getting a collective woody as Palin bent Obama and the Democrats over, shoved a leather gag in their mouths and flogged them as un-American wimps, appeasers and losers. “Drill, baby, drill!” the chant ecstatically repeated by the GOP faithful during Rudy Giuliani’s speech, acquired a distinctly Freudian subtext after Palin spoke. The more Palin drilled the Democrats, the more hotly the base yearned to drill her.

This is just a snapshot into the unbelievably sexist attacks on Palin–all by politicians and commentators who claim to be Feminists and “open-minded”. We will be updating this page with more smears as they become available.