Posted on 09/27/2008 4:32:15 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
IN an election campaign notable for its surprises, Sarah Palin, the Republican vice- presidential candidate, may be about to spring a new one — the wedding of her pregnant teenage daughter to her ice-hockey-playing fiancé before the November 4 election.
Inside John McCain’s campaign the expectation is growing that there will be a popularity boosting pre-election wedding in Alaska between Bristol Palin, 17, and Levi Johnston, 18, her schoolmate and father of her baby. “It would be fantastic,” said a McCain insider. “You would have every TV camera there. The entire country would be watching. It would shut down the race for a week.”
There is already some urgency to the wedding as Bristol, who is six months pregnant, may not want to walk down the aisle too close to her date of delivery. She turns 18 on October 18, a respectable age for a bride — and the same age as Barack Obama’s pregnant mother when she married his Kenyan father. The Democrat has already declared Bristol’s private life off-limits as far as his campaign is concerned.
The selection of Palin, 44, the moose-hunting governor of Alaska, as his running mate was one of McCain’s biggest gambles. It paid off handsomely at first, but she could benefit from a fresh injection of homespun authenticity, the hallmark of her style, provided by her daughter’s wedding after appearing out of depth away from her home state.
David Letterman, the late-night television chat show host, joked that Palin’s meetings with world leaders at the United Nations in New York looked like “take your daughter to work day”.
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“It would be fantastic,” said a McCain insider.”
Who is this “insider”? I can’t believe anyone in the McCain would be stupid enough to talk about that. Or would they?
See what I mean
You know to save McCain camp ask Cheneys you want come over we going throw pre wedding party and Dick Cheney would pull aside Levi you saw what I did to my best friend imagine that if you broke that girl heart LOL!
The quote from the “McCain insider” is a lie. Don’t fall for it.
Palin Derangement Syndrome. Hopefully Baxter will make a full recovery.
Excellent last minute play. Won’t be very off-limits if it’s all over the media.
Sounds very redneck.... The media would have a field day with this one.
Do we think it was really from the McCain campaign or just another media lie? No named source as usual! I somehow can’t see them making a huge deal of this although I assume the marriage will be before the birth!
I agree
barf alert
under the circumstances these two thoughtless teenagers should marry privately and announce the union after the fact
It would really work if we could get a wedding picture of the bride and groom with their parents, with the fathers holding shotguns.
What makes you think that would stop it from happening?
under the circumstances these two thoughtless teenagers should marry privately and announce the union after the fact
Agreed. Also Levi saying he didn’t want children is concerning, but I only heard that twice and hopefully the sources are wrong. Although at 18, I know I didn’t want children...of course, I knew how to make sure that did not happen...lol.
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