Gov. Sarah Palin will be a Grandma!

Earlier today Alaskian Governor and Republican Vice Presidential Candidate, Sarah Palin announced that her 17-year-old Daughter Bristol Palin is 5 months pregnant. The news of the pregnancy comes after several smear attempts by leftist bloggers who tried to prove that Sarah Palin’s youngest son was actually her grand-son. The leftist bloggers used outdated photos and unconfirmed accounts that seemed to show Sarah Palin not pregnant in the months before Trig was born.

With the news that Bristol Palin is indeed pregnant it puts to rest this ridiculous smear.

ST. PAUL (Reuters) – The 17-year-old daughter of Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin is pregnant, Palin said on Monday in an announcement intended to knock down rumors by liberal bloggers that Palin faked her own pregnancy to cover up for her child.

Bristol Palin, one of Alaska Gov. Palin’s five children with her husband, Todd, is about five months pregnant and is going to keep the child and marry the father, the Palins said in a statement released by the campaign of Republican presidential candidate John McCain.

Bristol Palin made the decision on her own to keep the baby, McCain aides said.

“We have been blessed with five wonderful children who we love with all our heart and mean everything to us,” the Palins’ statement said.

“Our beautiful daughter Bristol came to us with news that as parents we knew would make her grow up faster than we had ever planned. As Bristol faces the responsibilities of adulthood, she knows she has our unconditional love and support,” the Palins said.

The Palins asked the news media to respect the young couple’s privacy.

“Bristol and the young man she will marry are going to realize very quickly the difficulties of raising a child, which is why they will have the love and support of our entire family. We ask the media, respect our daughter and Levi’s privacy as has always been the tradition of children of candidates,” the statement concluded.

MCCAIN KNEW

Senior McCain campaign officials said McCain knew of the daughter’s pregnancy when he selected Palin last week as his vice presidential running mate, deciding that it did not disqualify the 44-year-old governor in any way.

She was for the “Bridge to nowhere”

In Sarah Palin’s introduction speech she said that she told congress “Thanks, but not thanks for that ‘Bridge to nowhere.” USAToday has uncovered quotes from 2006 when Sarah Palin was still Mayor of Wasilla, Alaska.

“We need to come to the defense of Southeast Alaska when proposals are on the table like the bridge, and not allow the spinmeisters to turn this project or any other into something that’s so negative,” Palin said in August 2006, according to the Ketchikan Daily News.

The Anchorage Daily News quoted her in October 2006 as saying she would continue state funding for the bridge. “The window is now, while our congressional delegation is in a strong position to assist,” she said.

Asked why she supported the bridge, Palin’s communications director Bill McAlister said, “It was never at the top of her priority list, and in fact the project isn’t necessarily dead … there’s still the potential for improved ferry service or even a bridge of a less costly design.”

She changed her mind, he said, when “she saw that Alaska was being perceived as taking from the country and not giving, and that impression bothered her and she wants to change it. … I think that Sarah Palin is someone who has the courage to reevaluate situations as they developed.”

Wasilla, which in 2007 had 9,780 residents, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, hired a lobbyist in 2000, public records show, paying him about $36,000 per year. In 2001, Palin was quoted in a local newspaper crediting Silver with helping secure federal funding for Wasilla.

Yes, Sarah Palin was for the Bridge before she was against it. However, in the end she made the correct decision. I think it’s very important for community and government leaders to constantly re-evaluate their positions. Sarah Palin was able to step back from her personal beliefs and see the country-wide impact of the legislation that would have built that bridge. She sided with the position that pork barrel projects should be handled by the states – not the federal government.

She’s Dan Quayle!

This attack has to be the most idiotic. Mort Kondrake, executive editor of “Roll Call” likens Sarah Palin’s “inexperience” to that of Vice Presidential Dan Quayle.

Look, I think that this selection was a testament on John McCain’s part to his belief and his own longevity. You know, he plans to fill out his term.

This woman is utterly unqualified to be president of the United States. She is the Dan Quayle of—she’s worse than Dan Quayle. Dan Quayle at least had served as a senator and was, you know, and was conversant with national issues.

Barack Obama has been running for president for years and years now, and has been thinking about national issues. He has an agenda and all of that.

Look, she has positives, political positives. She seems like a very nice woman, a very strong woman. And, you know, she is a reformer, and she is doing great work in Alaska for two years.

But, you know, she is going to be a heartbeat away from the presidency. John McCain is a 72-year-old man who has had two bouts with melanoma. Her chances of being president are fairly significant. You don’t appoint somebody with so little experience to that kind of job. It’s irresponsible, it seems to me.

Sure, he may have had troubles spelling. In the age of spell check I’m sure everyone spelling abilities have dwindled. Even after serving four years as Vice President of the United States, the democrats still harped on Quayle’s inexperience. At the time of being electing VP in 1988 Dan Quayle had the same amount of experience in Washington as Obama has today.

Even so, I thought the whole point of the Obama campaign was to “change” the “hope” of Washington by electing an “outsider.” Why all the sudden did Obama become of Washington? Sarah Palin is the only person for both parties who has had an ounce of executive experience. In the time span of 16 years she has gone from city council member, to mayor, to governor. She knows the people.

Palin was vetted!

Another one of the major points of argument against the selection of Sarah Palin as Vice President has been the assumption that the McCain team didn’t properly vet the governor. It has since come out that this assumption is not true. McCain’s team did vet her.

ST. PAUL, MINN. (AP) – Sarah Palin’s path to the Republican ticket started with her name on a list _ and a team of some 25 people poring through public records searching for trouble spots without her knowledge. Then came the 70-question survey and a nearly three-hour interview.

The review officially ended Thursday, when John McCain asked the Alaska governor to be his running mate.

In the days since, Republicans and Democrats have privately questioned whether the Arizona senator chose the first-term governor without fully looking into her background. McCain’s campaign has vehemently defended the review.

Arthur B. Culvahouse Jr., the lawyer who conducted the review, told The Associated Press in an interview Monday that Palin underwent a “full and complete” examination before McCain chose her. Asked whether everything that came up as a possible red flag during the review already has been made public, Culvahouse said: “I think so. Yeah, I think so. Correct.”