re: #312 SasyMomaCat

I think there’s another option - Bristol believed she loved Levi and, despite potential encouragement to do otherwise, had already expressed her decision to marry him and her family was supporting her and respecting her right to make her own choices. Alienating your daughter by shunning her chosen life partner, even if you know it’s a horrible mistake, can cause life long rifts in the fabric of a family. Thankfully, things turned out a bit different than planned. I can only imagine that Todd and Sarah Palin were quite happy about the break-up while being quite sad to see their daughter experience the pain of it. JMO, of course …

Definitely possible. But I’d still argue that then the McCain campaign shouldn’t have chosen Palin, and that in that circumstance Palin should have declined the nomination, knowing that it would lead to her daughter’s life and choices becoming the target of a media shitstorm.