GOP trying to trash Biden's daughter

GOP sources are sending around a six year old article from the paper reporting that Biden's then- 21-year-old daughter was arrested for mouthing off to a cop outside some bars. Yeah, okay. And she apologized to the police afterwards and they let her go. Good. It was a stupid thing of her to do, and she made amends.

But I'm not quite sure what the point is here in Republicans spreading around this article. Biden and Obama both said to leave kids out of it, they didn't take the bait when asked about news reports that Palin's underage unwed daughter was pregnant. In fact, the reason we all know about that story is because John McCain leaked news of the pregnancy to Reuters.

And in any case, Sarah Palin has made pregnancy and abortion and sex education, and more generally religious right "family values" one of her big issues - some argue that Sarah Palin fails the hypocrisy test, living to a different standard than she'd like the government to impose on others. For example, the Reuters story seemed to imply that Palin gave her daughter the choice as to whether to keep the child. Whereas Palin would like to take that choice away from every American man and woman. She wants abortion outlawed in every case other than when the life of the mother is threatened. That doesn't appear to be the standard she used in her own family. The issue isn't her daughter - the issue is Sarah Palin and her own hypocrisy on a variety of "family values" issues.

I don't see where Biden fails the hypocrisy test because his daughter was dumb enough to mouth off to a cop. And in any case, if the Republicans really want to say that families are now on-limits, then should we post the numerous stories in the National Enquierer about Sarah Palin, including a new one today? Should we post the story about McCain's son on Gawker? We don't, we haven't, and we won't because, at our core, Democrats simply aren't as sleazy as Republicans. And it may be our eventual undoing.