Give the press a week to vet Sarah and then tell me about the polls:
Let me get this straight…she’s 44 and pregnant with her 5th child, although no one actually knows this until she’s almost 8 months along…her staff is shocked! OK, well, I guess it’s possible.
She finds out the baby has Down’s Syndrome and decides to have him anyway. Good for her. She thinks every fetus has a right to life.
She travels to Texas at 36 weeks, something that is not recommended at this stage in pregnancies period, much less to those who are about to give birth to a high risk infant. OK, well, she’s putting her role as governor ahead of her concerns about her child…but…OK.
She begins to leak amniotic fluid (her water essentially breaks). Both she and her baby are now at risk for infection because the sac protecting the child is now breached. The standard of care is to get to a hospital ASAP. Hopefully, one with a NICU, since she is having a DS baby. 5th pregnancies tend to deliver faster than 1st or second. Especially when the child is premature and smaller. Her response to this situation, however, was unconscionable:
- She gives her speech
- She gets on a plane bound for Alaska without telling the airline she is in labor
- She gets to Seattle for a layover, but doesn’t go to any of the state of the art hospitals there
- She continues into Anchorage. But doesn’t stop at any of the state of the art hospitals there
- She gets in a car and travels 50 miles to the 74-bed Mat-Su Regional Medical Center in Wasilla and delivers there, 12 hours after the onset of labor.
This is the person John McCain chose to demonstrate how he puts America first? Good God, she doesn’t even put her family first, much less her high risk unborn child. Her own political ambitions are evidently far more important than the welfare of her baby. Her husband said a ‘fish-picker’ couldn’t be born in Texas. I don’t know about that…but this whole thing sounds awfully fishy, that’s for sure.
THEN…she accepts the nomination knowing that her 17-year old daughter is pregnant, but no pre-announcement spin goes out. She and the McCain campaign just throw her poor daughter to wolves. And she will definitely have time to raise her mentally handicapped infant. Family values is about more than opposing abortion and gay marriage.
Judgment, temperament, experience. Hmm…
That’s the only reason she came out about the daughter being preggo. When they found out this story, coupled with the fact taht the daughter was concurrently pulled out of school for 5 months, people figured it was her kid the first time.
