Well, yeah, I think we agree here more or less: there's much to be said - oh, so very much! - about Governor Palin as a parent and politician, but it's hard to say that she's hypocritical. I agree , too,that if abstinence-only sex ed was intended to prevent teens from having sex or having babies, it's a complete failure. But I am not so sure that was the intention. I think it was intended to link having babies, having sex, and marriage. So you could see the Palin Family Circus as evidence that abstinence-only education worked just as planned.

This is why I want Palin and her ilk as far away from administrative power on any level from the local to the national as they can possibly be kept: I think they're not stupid, and they're quite good at getting what they want.