No, it's a perfectly appropriate conversation

The irony is of the consistency of rich, silky, farm-fresh happy-cow sweet cream: the party of family values is, tonight, going to give a big, raucous cheer to teen pregnancy.

On a question that is flying around here in St. Paul: What about the presence of one Levi Johnston, the 18 year-old father of Bristol Palin's unborn child? At the end of this kind of speech, there is usually a lot of applause, music, and the candidate's family up on stage. Johnston is in St. Paul, I am told, but there has been no final decision about what he will do tonight.

"This is not an issue that we're going to act ashamed or scared about," my source told me.

Somebody should tell Senator Tom Coburn, republican of Oklahoma, who last week - not in the last decade, last year, last month, but last week - said this on the floor of the Senate while trying to block a bill that adequately funds sex education in public schools:

"How many people really think it's in the best interest of young people to be sexually active outside of marriage? Does anything positive ever come from that?"

Whether or not anything positive ever comes out of teen pregnancy isn't for me to decide, but one thing is clear: it's not a problem when the mother of the teenager is running for high elective office as a republican. For that higher purpose, Tom Coburn will cheer his little head off, along with the rest of his party.

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