I haven't seen any Democrats going after her on this family stuff at all. I think they are pretty much leaving it alone and letting the Republicans hash it out amongst themselves and letting the media do the inquiry.

It seems to me to be mostly Republicans raising the questions about whether or not her family values pass some kind of test --- not the Democrats or the media.

And the media is spending it's time following the question of whether she is a good choice politically, and whether she was vetted properly, and whether she and her family are ready to handle all the spotlight. The media are also the main ones askiing whether the choice of such an inexperienced person point to a hypocrisy on the part of McCain given that he has bashed Obama so much on experinece. Mostly Democrats are shying away from that topic, if you ask me. I think they'd be happy to the the experience debate die out, because it has been damaging for Obama up until now, and just let her qualifications or lack thereof speak for themselves during the campaign and the dabates.

I saw one interview in which the Democratic "panelist/pundit" said that the family is off limits, but the political issues that surround the family decisions are not. For example, no one would criticise Palin or her family for any of the choices they have made regarding keeping the daughter's baby or keeping her own Down Syndrome baby --- however, it does bring up the abortion issue and the fact that Sarah Palin would like to deny other women the right to make the choices she and her family have been making. She would like abortion to be illegal even in cases of rape an incest. Basically she would like to remove the choice and have the governement force others to make the same choice she has made.

Not everyone would want to carry a Down Syndrome baby to term or have a baby at 17, but Sarah Palin would force them to.