Posted on 10/20/2009 12:15:29 PM PDT by presidio9
I have, over the past year or so, expressed occasional dismay over Sarah Palin. I think she has the issue understanding of a Kodiak bear and an Arctic wolf’s eye for the main chance, and I think the idea of her being president, devising a national budget and having access to nuclear weapons is the kind of horrific vision that might come to you after weeks alone in the Alaskan wilderness.
But I don’t know what she did to deserve Levi Johnston.
Johnston, if you miss both the political news and the supermarket tabloids, is the former high school classmate, boyfriend and father of the child of Bristol Palin, the former governor’s teenage daughter. And if that were all, the whole thing gets filed under These Things Happen.
And from all indications, Bristol Palin herself is a lovely and charming young woman, even if she was slapped into line after saying that abstinence really wasn’t a realistic approach and caused to become a spokeswoman for an abstinence advocacy group.
But Johnston, it seems, views his unmarried fatherhood as his Golden Ticket, and while in limited contact with his son has maintained a nonstop eagerness to chat with the media. He appeared with Larry King — which may be, admittedly, almost mandatory once your name is in a newspaper — and took the occasion to complain about the Palins’ parenting skills, suggesting that at one point only Johnston kept the younger children fed.
Now, moving into the cash-on-the-barrelhead phase of celebrity, Johnston has reportedly signed to appear nude in Playgirl. In a move that’s even more classy, he now appears in a TV ad for Wonderful Pistachios, eating nuts preceded by a burly bodyguard, with the copy, “Now Levi Johnston does it with protection.”
Get it?
Nobody, not even the most powerful politician, gets to choose his or her relatives. This has to be particularly aggravating since, to the former governor, Johnston is the most shirt-tail of relatives; he’s not her son-in-law, just her grandson’s father. Nobody makes greeting cards for that relationship.
For even the most blog-watching and Peace Prize-cheering liberal Democrat, it’s enough to make you feel for Sarah Palin, and hope that Johnston’s 15 minutes of fame is down to its last few seconds.
One touch of nature, people used to say, makes the whole world kin.
So does one touch of kin.
Stuff happens.
Mr. Johnson was named for the article of clothing his mother was partially wearing at the moment of his conception.
Another hit piece, not ‘sympathy’.
LJ would make a great poster boy with that phrase. Ah well. At least Palin's "Brother Billy" is only an in-law.
Correcting myself. The kids never did marry, did they? Even better.
Can someone please tell me what this snob is talking about?
What exactly makes these elitists so crazy? What has she said that suggests that she is a dangerous retard?
I don't get it. Seriously, does anybody have some examples of what she has said or done? There must be something . I'm at a total lost here.
I will never eat a California pistachio again after that ad.
Bristol is now poster child for what feel-good-teenage sex with a studmuffin can do, not only to mess up your own life, but to affect your entire family and perhaps even history.
Stuff only happens when it happens to one of ours.
devising a national budget
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Yeah. The Ivy Leaguers have us on the verge of bankrupcy; I’m sure Palin couldn’t do that well. /s
“Into every life a little stuff must fall” - Longfellow
Very good question.
I was on a trip with my very liberal boss recently and he saw a Palin 2010 bumper sticker and just about wrecked the car he got so infuriated.
I asked him what she had done to evoke such anger and he couldn’t really come up with anything. I challenged him to come up with 5 things to justify his feelings.
He did and I showed him that four were completely untrue and the fifth was overstated. He didn’t care. He just hates her and doesn’t need a reason, I guess.
Really?
Now this is the kind of guy I'd like to get alone in the brush somewhere..just the two of us..no guns or anything..just out fists. After 5 minutes he'd be carried away to go spend a very long time in the hospital.
“...Ivy Leaguers have us on the verge of bankrupcy...”
Exactly! And Sarah has a history of being able to form a state budget and operate in the Black. While Obambi had a history of Senate mega-spending and now as a chief executive a history of mega-red ink.
Exactly.
Everbody makes stupid mistakes when they are young ... but Bristol has got to win some kind of prize for monumental teenage screw-up
From what I hear, Levi Johnson can’t keep his shirt on, let alone his pants.
She did not abort her Down Syndrome baby, she made a crack about Community Oraganizers when talking about Obama, and she likes guns and drilling for oil... I’m sorry, that’s just not enough to label her deranged and idiotic. There must be more, somewhere.
This cad is still making news? I thought his 15 minutes were up.
They hate her because she is extraordinarily ordinary. None of their liberal politicians have ever accomplished that (much as they would like to).
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