Can you say doghouse?
If you’re Mark Ciptak then you’re not only familiar with its pronunciation but you’re also used to its smell by now.
The Tennessee resident and father of a newborn daughter is making headlines for secretly naming his baby girl Sarah McCain Palin after the Republican presidential and vice presidential candidates John McCain and Sarah Palin.
Ciptak, who works for the American Red Cross, told news reporters that 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,” Ciptak told local news reporters. “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.”
Yeah, I don’t have a ton of money, but here, take my third born.
Here’s something genius could have… make that should have done before making his daughter’s name legal—tell his wife!
You know, the woman who carried said child for nine months before laboring for hours to bring her into the world. Yeah, that lady. The same woman with whom you chose a perfectly beautiful name—-Ava Grace–to bestow on your daughter… together.
According to news reports, Ciptak duped his wife into thinking that the baby’s name was going to be Ava Grace, but then secretly entered the name Sarah McCain Palin on the child’s birth certificate.
As for how his wife is taking the news Ciptak told reporters: “I don’t think she believes me yet. It’s going to take some more convincing.
What… to stay married to a man who is so clearly self-absorbed that he would embrace being thrown into the national spotlight for duping his wife and giving his child a name that she will likely legally change on her 16th birthday, if her mom doesn’t do so long before that.
With all due respect to all the Sarahs out there… I feel for Sarah McCain Palin Ciptak… and her mother.
Then again, perhaps, Ciptak’s wife will soften to the secretly given name once various TV talk shows and cable news programs come calling.
In that case my sympathies remain solely with the kid.
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