by James Oliphant
Yeah. It's possible this election has finally jumped the shark.
Here we go:
ELIZABETHTON, Tenn. -- A new father has secretly named his baby girl Sarah McCain Palin after the Republican ticket for president and vice president.
Mark Ciptak of Elizabethton put that name on the documents for the girl's birth certificate, ignoring the name Ava Grace, which he and his wife had picked earlier.
"I don't think she believes me yet," he told the Kingsport Times-News for a story to be published Tuesday. "It's going to take some more convincing."
Ciptak, a blood bank employee for the American Red Cross, said he named his third child after John McCain and Sarah Palin to "to get the word out" about the campaign.
"I took one for the cause," he said. "I can't give a lot of financial support for the (McCain/Palin) campaign. I do have a sign up in my yard, but I can do very little."
Ciptak apparently told his wife on the way home from the hospital and she thought he was joking.
I'm not one to dispense marital advice, but ignoring your wife's wishes and turning your daughter into a bumper sticker is probably an issue that will have to be worked out later, either in counseling or in court.
But at least he didn't name her (insert your own joke here).
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Comments
If her daddy's intelligence is any indication, the least of that little girl's problems in life will be her name.
Posted by: a blinkin | October 15, 2008 12:31 PM
Look at the bright side - if the dad was liberal the child's name might be Josephine Barack Hussien Biden Ciptak
Posted by: Terry | October 15, 2008 12:50 PM
Another family values voter...
Posted by: Tom O | October 15, 2008 1:22 PM
This fine example of a Repug will just go to church on Sunday and worship his idol for an hour and all will be forgiven in time for the football game by the afternoon.
Posted by: Xcellentform | October 15, 2008 1:43 PM
It would be too funny if she grows up to be a radical left-wing liberal...in fact I think he can count on it.
Posted by: bluesky | October 15, 2008 2:28 PM