Posted on 04/03/2009 11:32:20 AM PDT by rabscuttle385
She knew?
You betcha, says the baby daddy of Sarah Palin's grandson.
The Alaska governor most likely was aware before her daughter, Bristol, became pregnant that the teenager and her hockey hunk boyfriend were having sex, Levi Johnston said in a bombshell new interview.
"I'm pretty sure she probably knew. Moms are pretty smart," said Johnston, 18, the father of the governor's first grandchild, in an interview that will air Monday on "The Tyra Banks Show."
Johnston said he and Bristol Palin practiced safe sex "most of the time."
(Excerpt) Read more at nydailynews.com ...
This punk is a scumbag. Sheesh... what a handful of dollars can buy.
Until they have video with Sarah Palin making directorial comments in the background, they can shove it.
And it just doesn’t stop:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2221911/posts
“Palin’s sister-in-law arrested” (on two counts of felony burglary, involving two break-ins at the same house in one week!)
And from another article at the linked source: According to charging documents, Diana Palin’s 4-year-old daughter was with her during the break-in yesterday (Thursday) morning. http://www.ktuu.com/Global/story.asp?S=10128932
Are we *sure* Palin’s spot on the R ticket wasn’t engineered by some evil geniuses in the Democrat machine?
I personally think McCain would have lost by much more if it were not for Palin. None of the other options really inspired the base like Palin did at the time. I think more conservatives showed up to the polls because she was on the ticket. McCain was worse than Bob Dole, IMHO. McCain’s poll number went up after Palin joined the ticket so I’m curious to know why you think it was over when he picked her. And McCain’s response to the financial issue didn’t help him.
Do I think she’ll be a lasting presence on the national stage? Too early to tell, but four years is an eternity in politics. A few short years ago, Obama was a mediocre state senator. The real test will be how she succeeds as governor.
McCain’s poll numbers didn’t stay up, and Palin ended up costing him a lot more votes than she brought in. EVERYBODY I know personally, at every point on the political spectrum, was simply flabbergasted at the Palin pick. People who had been engaging in serious debate re the Presidential election came to a grinding halt that day, because it was clear the election was as good as over. One friend at the office told me a couple of days later that he’d been at a business (banking/insurance) golfing event, where an executive he knew well had told him “I’ve never voted for a Democrat in my life, and I was absolutely positive I never would, but now I’m going to do it.”
At least in the educated/affluent segment of society, completely apart from political left/right leanings (and there’s plenty of both), *everybody* saw instantly that Sarah was a rank amateur and so clueless as to be outright dangerous as a possible POTUS (and with McCain’s age, that was a very serious prospect). Even before the reams of trailer-trashy stuff starting coming out (which didn’t take long), she just didn’t come across as someone who could even be qualified for a mid-level management job in the front office of a serious financial institution. She came across as ditzier and more clueless than the average secretary we were accustomed to dealing with, and frankly, apart from her quite recent election as Governor of Alaska, her resume looked a lot like that of the average secretary we were accustomed to dealing with — hiccuppy and unimpressive post-secondary education, no clear career path, etc.
Frankly I think a lot of people who would have voted for McCain simply stayed home. I’m an absentee voter (always in NYC weekdays, even though I’m also a Pennsylvania resident and registered to vote in PA) and I really struggled over it — seriously considered checking off one of the two fringe party candidates on the ballot (but despised both of them), seriously considered checking off Obama because having run his campaign brilliantly and with Biden on the ticket (whose politics I dislike, but who’s clearly an experienced pro), he appeared to be the best choice for a competent executive, seriously considered leaving the President/VP boxes blank, and ended up voting for McCain because 1) I felt sorry for the honorable ex-POW whose last shot at the Presidency had been pulled out from under him by some appallingly bad political advice, and 2) Obama was obviously going to win Pennsylvania anyway.
Nearly all the people who were “inspired” by Palin were going to vote Republican no matter what — not ONE of them was a potential Obama voter. Virtually nobody who was on the fence between McCain and Obama would have tipped over to McCain because Palin had joined the ticket. And tipping the McCain vs. Obama fencesitters was the only way McCain had a chance of winning. Anyone left-leaning enough to even consider voting for Obama over McCain, was going to be appalled by *everything* about Palin.
I think she’s completely finished as a national-level politician. She might have been able to salvage her political career if she’d gotten her act together and closely followed advice from solid, professional political advisers, starting right after the election. Instead she made a series of boorish and defensive media appearances and has managed to piss off pretty much everybody who has an influence at all in the Republican Party (and she’d already managed to piss off quite a lot of them during the campaign). And the endless stream of trailer trashy stuff emanating from her family obviously isn’t helping — it’s not that good, competent people can’t have trailer trashy relatives and daughters’ baby daddies, but there’s a conspicuous lack of anything ELSE emanating from her family circle. At this point, I think her political future in Alaska isn’t even secure.
You pray to Obama at night don’t you?
Until Alan Keyes launched him onto the national stage, with many of the same sort of conservatives who are now infatuated with Palin cheering wildly for Alan as he buffooned his way to a landslide loss. That Senate campaign is what put Obama in a position to make a serious run for the White House.
While Alan was back "home" in Illinois, babbling irrationally about stuff like "the homosexual agenda" in the aftermath of 9/11 (with his adult daughter pulling the Palinesque stunt of choosing to announce she was a lesbian in the middle of the campaign), Obama didn't need to campaign in Illinois at all to be assured of a landslide win. So he eagerly sought and accepted invitations to run around the country speaking at fundraisers for other Democratic candidates -- a job which he did extremely well, causing wealthy liberal white guilt-trippers to open their wallets in response to this charismatic *black" politician from a *disadvantaged* background, who sounded so nice and comfy to them because he went to the same sort of college and professional school they did ("See how wonderful affirmative action is, Muffy? It makes them turn out just like us!"). By the time he popped back to Illinois to collect his winning ticket to a first Senate term, he was already a national figure.
If social conservatives don't start recognizing the danger of fawning over utterly unelectable candidates pretty soon, the United States of America as we know it really will be doomed. It can survive a term, or even two, of someone like Obama in the White House, but it can't survive a long stretch of that sort of leadership.
Nope, I don’t pray to politicians — not even to the wonderful Barry Goldwater who’s already on the other side of the pearly gates and might actually hear me. But there are a lot of FReepers who sound like they pray to Palin.
Who would’ve been a good choice? Romney’s religion makes him a nonstarter. Pawlenty is more boring than an Al Gore slide show and Ridge is pro death. Bobby Jindal and Paul Ryan are too young and I wouldn’t have wanted them permanently tainted by being associated with this campaign.
I have to disagree that “everyone in the educated/affluent segment of society saw Palin as a rank amateur.” Perhaps those in New York City, but certainly not the rest of the county.
You say that you voted for McCain because you “felt sorry for the honorable ex-POW whose last shot at the Presidency had been pulled out from under him by some appallingly bad political advice”. That’s not exactly a high endorsement for the guy. You don’t cite any policies he stood for or anything but feeling sorry for him. Yet you don’t seem to hold him accountable for any of the advisors he chose. Presidency’s don’t get pulled from people. The people that become president, Republicans and Democrats alike, have an intense drive to become president. The candidates who I saw as exceptions to that are Bob Dole and John McCain, both were old guys who spent years in the Senate and ran their campaigns as if the country owed them the presidency because of their years of service in the military as well as in government. Both ran against guys who had no military service, and both ran near times of military deployments by the US, so their military service should have been a plus. Neither had a real message other than some vague “I served, you owe me”. That doesn’t win elections. Unfortunately, in both cases, the other candidates in the primary were even less inspiring than they were.
Don’t blame Alan Keyes. If you remember the whole election, a guy named Ryan ran against Obama. Until the specifics of his divorce were made public resulting in Ryan’s withdrawal. Interestingly, Obama’s Democratic rivals were taken off the ballot due to some issues raised by the Obama campaign. With a short time left before the election, Alan Keyes stepped in. Keyes didn’t win any primary to get into this. People weren’t “fawning” over Keyes, he’s what the Illinois Republican Party gave us when Ryan dropped out.
With respect, I think your views may be impacted by your time in NYC. (I grew up on LI and worked in NYC for years, now a PA resident). NYC Republicans tend to be much more liberal leaning than the rest of the country’s Republicans, so many problems in the Republican party are viewed as being due to too many social conservatives...... Many of us in the rest of the country would disagree, and we have just as much education/wealth/sophistication as the NYC Pubbies.
Ashley Biden is probably being hidden away in an expensive re-hab somewhere. I’m sure that the media have not offered to interview her, and she doesn’t need the money, any way.
Your prurient interest in the relationship between the young couple make you look as bad the producers of the Tyra Banks show.
(1) McCain was behind Obama and jumped ahead of him only when he picked Palin as his VP nominee. Her performance at the convention solidified that lead. McCain lost the lead only because of his idiotic handling of the market crash. If he had reacted better and started putting the blame on Congressional Democrats, he most likely would be president today, IMO.
(2) Palin, even with only two years as governor, had vast more experience as an executive than Obama. Even when factoring in their pre-governor/senator positions, she had more. It's silly to argue otherwise. Where your position gains credence is the poor job in the 2 interviews, which obviously hurt her. But anyone looking at McCain vs. Obama and voted for Obama because of Palin's alleged inexperience is a fool.
Your comments on Keyes, unfortunately, are spot on. As much as I enjoy him, he's a lousy candidate.
Your kidding, right
Come again?
You pray to reason and sanity every night, right
With all due respect, I suspect that your views may be colored by your having been in NYC. NYC Repubs tend to be more liberal in some ways.
‘EVERYBODY I know personally, at every point on the political spectrum, was simply flabbergasted at the Palin pick. People who had been engaging in serious debate re the Presidential election came to a grinding halt that day’
Reminds me somewhat of Pauline Kael’s statement about Richard Nixon’s landslide victory about how no one she knew voted for him.
“I’ve never voted for a Democrat in my life, and I was absolutely positive I never would, but now I’m going to do it.”
So your friend voted for Obama, a guy who has less executive experience than Palin? If and when the country goes down the commode, will your friend admit his mistake?
‘Even before the reams of trailer-trashy stuff starting coming out (which didn’t take long), she just didn’t come across as someone who could even be qualified for a mid-level management job in the front office of a serious financial institution. She came across as ditzier and more clueless than the average secretary we were accustomed to dealing with’
I suspect that you may thank the media for that.
‘At least in the educated/affluent segment of society, completely apart from political left/right leanings (and there’s plenty of both), *everybody* saw instantly that Sarah was a rank amateur and so clueless as to be outright dangerous as a possible POTUS’
Maybe that’s it right there. The reason why that aforementioned educated/affluent segment doesn’t like Palin is because she wasn’t “one of them”.
Well he can shove it. My point being, until they have video with Sarah Palin making directorial comments in the background, I really don't care what this idiot 18 year thinks or the news rag that published it. I think he's getting ready to cash in.
I watched about 10 minutes of the show today (that’s all I could take), but I did see Tyra make an announcement that the Johnston family was NOT paid to appear on her show.
He he...
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