In a revealing interview for the upcoming Jan. 25 issue of In Touch Weekly, former GOP presidential candidate Sarah Palin and her daughter Bristol open up about the experience of raising their toddler sons together.Bristol gave birth to her son Tripp in December 2008. Since splittng from the boy’s father, the infamous Levi Johnston, Bristol has taken up her mother’s abstinence only campaign.
“I’m not going to have sex until I’m married…I can guarantee it,” the teen mom says.“Tripp is the love of my life — I couldn’t ask for a better baby, but the reality is I’m 19 years old and I have a 1-year-old. I wish I could be in my 30s with a baby, and not be 20. Just having him so young — I have to work, and I have to provide, because I’m a single mom”
Bristol Palin says she didn’t know what she was in for when she made the life-changing and controversial choice to have a baby at the young age of 18. But the reality of single motherhood quickly set in. “I remember sitting on a black recliner, just bawling my eyes out,” Bristol tells In Touch. “I was just rocking Tripp to sleep because he had been screaming for so long. I was just like, ‘What am I going to do? This is as bad as it gets.”
Luckily Bristol had a Mom like Sarah. No one can better understand the complicated decision to have a baby under difficult circumstances. Just a year earlier, at the age of 44, Sarah carried her son Trig to term, even though she was told during a sonogram that he would be born with Down syndrome. Now, the mother and daughter are sharing a unique experience— raising baby boys together under the same roof. In an exclusive interview at the family’s home in Alaska on January 10, Sarah and Bristol plopped down on the teenager’s bed and opened up about the joys and challenges of raising Tripp and Trig.With Trig’s birth, Sarah’s vice presidential run and Bristol’s very public pregnancy during the campaign, “The last few years have been unreal and surreal,” Sarah told In Touch.
Sarah made her debut as a commentator for the FOX News Channel on last night’s O’Reilly Factor. She tells In Touch that raising her special needs son Trig, who has Down Syndrome, has made her a more patient mother.
"He’s made me more patient and compassionate, and more focused on priorities that really matter.”
The Palin on In Touch hits newsstands this Friday
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Isn't this interesting. Sarah says that it's a CHOICE to allow the babies to live??? For her family, anyway. Just not for everyone else.
Another poster was wondering what dumb things Sarah Palin said. Well...
2. "The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down Syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama's 'death panel' so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their 'level of productivity in society,' whether they are worthy of health care. Such a system is downright evil." –-Sarah Palin, in a message posted on Facebook about Obama's health care plan, Aug. 7, 2009
3. "All of 'em, any of 'em that have been in front of me over all these years." --Sarah Palin, unable to name a single newspaper or magazine she reads, interview with Katie Couric, CBS News, Oct. 1, 2008 (Watch video clip)
4. "Well, let's see. There's ― of course in the great history of America there have been rulings that there's never going to be absolute consensus by every American, and there are those issues, again, like Roe v. Wade, where I believe are best held on a state level and addressed there. So, you know, going through the history of America, there would be others but ―" --Sarah Palin, unable to name a Supreme Court decision she disagreed with other than Roe vs. Wade, interview with Katie Couric, CBS News, Oct. 1, 2008 (Watch video clip)
5. "We believe that the best of America is not all in Washington, D.C. ... We believe that the best of America is in these small towns that we get to visit, and in these wonderful little pockets of what I call the real America, being here with all of you hard working very patriotic, um, very, um, pro-America areas of this great nation." --Sarah Palin, speaking at a fundraiser in Greensoboro, N.C., Oct. 16, 2008
6. "[T]hey're in charge of the U.S. Senate so if they want to they can really get in there with the senators and make a lot of good policy changes that will make life better for Brandon and his family and his classroom." --Sarah Palin, getting the vice president's constitutional role wrong after being asked by a third grader what the vice president does, interview with NBC affiliate KUSA in Colorado, Oct. 21, 2008 (Watch video clip)
7. "Who calls a shot like that? Who makes a decision like that? It's a disturbing trend." –Sarah Palin, pushing a conspiracy theory that "In God We Trust" had been moved to the edge of coins by the Obama administration (the change was made by the Bush administration in 2007 and was later reversed by Congress, before Obama took office), West Allis, Wisconsin, Nov. 6, 2009
8. "Ohh, good, thank you, yes." --Sarah Palin, after a notorious Canadian prank caller complimented her on the documentary about her life, Hustler's "Nailin Paylin," Nov. 1, 2008 (Read more about the prank call, watch the video and see the transcript)
9. "They are also building schools for the Afghan children so that there is hope and opportunity in our neighboring country of Afghanistan." --Sarah Palin, speaking at a fundraiser in San Francisco, Oct. 5, 2008
10. "I think on a national level your Department of Law there in the White House would look at some of the things that we've been charged with and automatically throw them out." --Sarah Palin, referring to a department that does not exist while attempting to explain why as president she wouldn't be subjected to the same ethics investigations that compelled her to resign as governor of Alaska, ABC News interview, July 7, 2009
to anonymous: I hope you are not trying (in vain) to suggest that Sarah Palin is making more or greater faux pas than other politicians in the national spotlight. Certainly you could not be that myopic, or have that little intellectual integrity. I assume that you know it took weeks for Katie Couric, with the full collusion of the ABC staffers--and who knows who else--to concoct questions that would trip up Sarah Palin, while Katie remained blithely on script! Katie Couric shows the same denigrating arrogance and "dazzling" intelligence as Alex Trebek on "JEOPARDY." Have you considered comparing Palin's "dumb" comments with those of Obama, Biden, Reid, Pelosi, and anyone else the press asks questions of? Or, are you not an equal opportunity thinker? As I recall, this group has shown a collective ability to insert its feet in its mouths, which is second only to its ability to lose ground in the polls. Do you think one might be influencing the other?
to anonymous: I hope you are not trying (in vain) to suggest that Sarah Palin is making more or greater faux pas than other politicians in the national spotlight. Certainly you could not be that myopic, or have that little intellectual integrity. I assume that you know it took weeks for Katie Couric, with the full collusion of the ABC staffers--and who knows who else--to concoct questions that would trip up Sarah Palin, while Katie remained blithely on script!
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Ah yes, the evil Katie Couric, asking such tough questions as, "What do you read to keep up?" Positively diabolical.
To anonymous 3:49:
Yes, every politician and every human being mispeaks. But there is a difference. Obama, for example, made a statement in which he miscounted the number of states. Well, obviously he DOES know the correct number.
There are other mistakes that are more serious--like truly not understanding what the Vice President does, when you are running for that office. That is quite serious. It ought to be alarming.
But the GOP doesn't care. They love to put dummies in office: Reagan, Bush, Schwartzahoople, Palin.....they have so little respect for government that they don't care who runs it.
Furthermore, Anon #2 makes reference to the Dept. of Law as not existing. Yes, it is not a Federal office, but she was referring to her problems and in Alaska there is a Dept. of Law.
Look, they are going to keep on labeling her as "dumb" because that is par for the course. She could have been a child prodigy with an IQ of 210 and they will still say the same thing. That is their modus operandi and they will not budge from it and just repeat what they hear.
I guess that "visiting 57 states and still have one left to visit" or "not speaking Austrian" is considered brilliant by these types. Not to mention FDR being on television during the depression in the 30's. Wow, those are real insightful comments. BTW, did you know that Biden also had the question wrong as to what a VP did. At least Sarah was simplifying it for a child not mentioning it to adults.
Anon 8:14,
Palin said the same thing about a VP during the DEBATE; saying that VP gets in with Senators to pass legislation. It was not just simplifying it for a child.
Second, Biden got the idea right; just that the VP presides over Senate all the time, not just for a tie breaker.
The 57 states bit: Get over it. If you count the territories as well as the number of primary contests, he was veering in right area, just misspoke.
Austrian gaffe: Did you know that Austrians often shorthand their variant German dialect to the term "Austrian" and that there is an Austrian Dictionary:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%96sterreichisches_W%C3%B6rterbuch
While he should have said "German" or "Austrian German," it still is minor compared to a person who:
-Cannot say what she reads to inform her views
-Is not sure what VP does; thinks VP is part of caucus and committees
-Lies repeatedly about Bridge; governor's jet; Obama and Ayers; death panels and her reasons for quitting
-Shakes a comic down for an apology for dumb joke yet does nothing about real threats of gang rape to her children
She is not intellectually curious or inclined; does not know what she does not know and her arrogance is only exceeded by her ignorance, a dangerous mix, given she constantly insinuates herself into policy debates yet does not wish to actually debate.
This InTouch piece is yet another example of her brazen hypocrisy. She claims to want privacy and for her and her family to be left alone yet she constantly is reaching for the spotlight. Well, the light has glare, Sarah. If you want privacy, just go the way of Edwards; away.
But the GOP doesn't care. They love to put dummies in office: Reagan, Bush, Schwartzahoople, Palin.....they have so little respect for government that they don't care who runs it.
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Absolutely. The GOP looks at government as a feeding trough for the special interests. If it doesn't make the rich richer, get rid of it.
It is pathetic how pro-killing unborn baby people attack the Palins...I mean really...they are "upset" that the Palins push a "pro life message in In Touch Magazine?" Oh, my gosh, God forbid, you're right you uber intelligent freaks....they should've said, "yes, we both decided to have our unborn babies sucked from our wombs and torn to shreds and put in a garbage then endure the pain and courage of being mothers.....as single moms or moms of children with disablities....God forbid they should take such a good stance..you are right you self righteous selfish nitwits..they both should've taken YOUR ways and tossed their kids into the garbage can and pushed the "PRO CHOICE" method....God you people are pathetic...so lost and hopelessly confused you can't discern between a woman of courage and a woman consumed with herself...Palin is perhaps the most courageous woman we've seen you nits....she is the kind of woman that would bring dignity and respect to all women if she won the presidental election..she is STRONG woman..not some weak pathetic narcissist that can't handle reality....and who runs and covers her problems.....
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