James Wolcott, on Bristolgate:
Jake Tapper asks: "What would the response be if Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, and his wife Michelle had a pregnant unmarried teenage daughter?"After all that, the religious right is now, suddenly, okay with teen pregnancy. Then again, they never gave Cheney so much trouble for having a lesbian daughter... Posted by Stephen Silver at September 2, 2008 04:08 PMI can answer that. Mona Charen, Ann Coulter, and Michelle Malkin would sprout bat wings and fangs and start divebombing, Peggy Noonan would issue a pained sigh that would ruffle nun's robes from here to Hoboken, Laura Ingraham and Bill Bennett would engage in a finger-wagging contest to condemn our loose licentious liberal culture, and Jennifer Rubin at Commentary's Contentions would crash into the wall doing cartwheels.