It’s all about the babies

Somebody help me understand what this is all about. Families are “off-limits” in political campaigns – except as vote-getting props?

Does that mean no more televised good-night calls from Daddy to the Obama girls – please?

Does that mean Joe Biden and Bo Biden and all the iddy-biddy Bidens will no longer depopulate Wilmington, Del., for a photo op?

Does that mean we don’t have to hear about Sarah Palin’s son going to Iraq anymore?

Does that mean we don’t have to hear how deciding to embark on an all-consuming 10-week national campaign when she has an infant with special needs at home makes Palin a “family-values” candidate?

Does that mean she won’t be referred as “connecting with working-class women” who can’t afford special care for their special kids – and sure as hell can’t take three months off work to look for another job and stay employed if it doesn’t work out?

Does that mean that Bristol Palin, 17, unmarried, and due in December, isn’t a “celebrity” like Jamie Lynn Spears – who isn’t actually married yet?

Does that mean Bristol’s pregnancy will finally put a stake in the heart of federally mandated “abstinence-only” education – a plank of her mom’s gubernatorial platform as well as the Republican national platform just adopted — when even James Dobson admits it just proves she’s “human”?

Does that mean that the rest of us can also reserve the right to be human and use our God-given free will to make our own decisions for our own families without facing the focus of Dobson’s morality cops in the federal government?

Or does it mean that should she help John McCain secure the White House, Sarah Palin would not get the chance to be “proud” of her daughter’s out-of-wedlock pregnancy, because Bristol would have no chance to decide whether to “live her family values” or not?

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