Perhaps for class president in 8th grade? Just a guess.

You are spot on.

When did Bristol run for office?

For all the brain-dead lefties who woodenly mouth the progressive mantra about "Palin thrust her kids onto the national platform when she brought them up at the convention":  so did McCain.  And Biden.  And the Obamessiah.  And every other candidate who's ever been nominated to a national office in recent memory.

It's not about their kids.  Not now. Not ever.

And MAYBE now, they're starting to get it: there's a line we simply won't let them cross anymore.

Sarah Palin is a legitimate target for political "humor", even including Letterman,s lame attempts. That's one of the perqs of living in a free ( for now ) society, you get to criticise, and even ridicule your leaders.

Joking about statutory rape - yes, I know he supposedly meant it about the older daughter, that makes it just rape - is reprehensible. But being a child of a Republican pol makes you grist for the mill of the MSM.

Not a peep about Chelsea during the Clinton years - I'm sure she lived the life of a cloistered nun - but we sure heard about the Bush twins getting beer while underage.

But there's no double standard in the MSM. Certainly not.