Sarah Palin’s Future Son-in-Law: From the “Start” He Planned to Marry Bristol
Posted on October 13, 2008
Levi Johnston, the father of Bristol Palin’s child, is disputing any shotgun wedding scenario. This stand-up guy sets the record straight.
We were planning on getting married a long time ago with or without the kid,” he said. “That was the plan from the start
YahooNews refers to Johnston as “a Wasilla heartthrob,” “an avid hunter,” “dark haired, tall and muscular, sports a bit of stubble and drives a red Chevy Silverado truck. He’d be the perfect cover for Field & Stream.”
Johnston has reportedly dropped out of his last year of high school to work in the oil fields as an apprentice electrician.
Bristol Palin’s baby is due December 18th, and the AP reports that a summer wedding is planned.
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High school dropout! Teenage Pregnancy! Hooray! The American Dream! It’s an example of what all children should strive for.
No, it’s not the American dream, but it appears these two are willing to try to turn it into the American dream.
I’m puzzled, though, at why Johnston would drop out of high school in his senior year. Maybe the parents are insisting that Levi and Bristol take complete responsibility for all costs, or perhaps they, themselves, made that decision - or maybe he hated school and couldn’t wait to get out:-)
This is a sad situation. Apparently Palin checked out and decided not to give her daughter the sex education speech. She can barely control her kids, much less run a country.
Like I said before, these people are not role models. Unless you want to parade them around and show Americans how not to mess their lives up.
A young couple taking responsibility for their actions. I know, it’s a new concopt for libs. Congratulations, Bristol & Levi!
mj: It is not an ideal situation, but I hardly think you can accuse Palin of not supporting abstinence. We know kids don’t always follow our advice.
I do believe Palin is a role model, and a great one at that. Her daughter isn’t homeless, on drugs or alcohol, and she isn’t 14.
Give them a break and some credit for taking care of each other.
JGoodson, dittos!
mj on October 13th, 2008 1:35 pm said:
“This is a sad situation. Apparently Palin checked out and decided not to give her daughter the sex education speech. She can barely control her kids, much less run a country.”
Possibly true, mj, but everything in life is relative? Relative to what, you may ask? Relative to the other choices we have.
There are two tickets — one Dem, one Repub — with a total of four people on them. I submit for your consideration the fact that Palin’s “transgressions” (actually Bristol’s) are minor compared to the transgressions of the other ticket’s candidates.
The head of the Dem ticket is a confessed drug addict, a card-carrying proven member of the socialist New Party, a known associate of a unrepentant terrorist and murderer, and a known associate of a radical, racist pastor.
Compound that with the fact that the head of the Dem ticket is currently in the middle of a lawsuit that challenges his legal status to even RUN for President — a lawsuit he could make vanish in a moment, if he would just produce the original “long-form” birth record proving that he was born in Hawaii and a copy of the paperwork where he renounced his Indonesian citizenship (he became Indonesian citizen when adopted by Lolo Soetoro when BO was seven) and became U.S. citizen again. NO BIG DEAL, right? Just produce the records, and the lawsuit is dismissed. Instead, his attorneys are trying to delay the proceedings until after the election, instead of just producing the docs.
And do not even get started on Lyin’ Joe Biden….an industrial-strength plagiarist and proven liar on all subjects.
So, that brings us back to Palin, and her partner on the Repub ticket, McCain. He is a little too liberal to run as a Republican in my opinion, and has a bit of a temper. But he is a proven patriot, and a proven believer in bipartisanship (even though I disagree with some of the issues he went ‘bipartisan’ on). His worst offense was being caught up in the Keating 5 affair, and after extensive research, he was cleared.
And Palin? It seems the worst the media can find on her is that her seventeen-yr-old daughter behaved like seventeen-year-olds usually do, and it is all momma’s fault. That, and the fact that other people around her - not her - thought it would be a pretty good idea for a guy who tased his ten-year-old stepson and who threatened the life of Palin’s parents to not be a State Trooper.
Yeeeesh.
Yeah, MJ, you are right — she can barely control her kids, much less run a country. But if she is not qualified, and the Dem ticket is even less qualified, can we throw the whole lot out and start over? Maybe a “do-over”, or a mulligan?
Paul, I’ll take that mulligan:-)
“The head of the Dem ticket is a confessed drug addict”
Are you talking about him trying marijuana and cocaine as a teenager? Because last time I checked Palin did the exact same thing.
My problem is that people are praising Palin’s kid, instead of saying what she was wrong. Teenage pregnancy is nothing to celebrate. It doesn’t matter whether they are taking responsibility, which in this case means forgoing education.
Levi could do a lot worse than getting into an electrician’s apprentiship in the North Slope oil fields. Pay is $40. to $70. an hour.
Leave these two alone. 5 years from now, many of their critics may wish they could trade places with them.
http://sarah-palin-2008.blogspot.com/2008/10/johnston-speaks-on-bristol-palin-obama.html
MJ,
Find something better to do than sleaze all over some teenagers. I’m a mom of a 17 year old girl, and NOTHING I do is going to change her mind once she decides. I’m home every day, but she believes she’s 30, which is the fault of a culture that your obvious political leanings very assuredly contributed to. Fine for Bill to do what he did to a young Monica in the Oval office? No problem if they’re having sex all over the city of San Francisco? Quit being a hypocrit.
Obviously, getting pregnant as a teen isn’t what most parents would want, and even the most loving and involved parents have teenager daughters that get into this situation. The fact is, teenagers do make mistakes, alot of ‘em. Some are serious, some aren’t. The mistakes will occur, but what is more important than the missteps is how the teen, and their family,react to them. Now, you could react like a Salon columnist and get a discreet abortion for your teen, so that the scholarship to Vassar and pledge to Delta Gamma remain, and everything in your 18 year plan from the right kindergarten to the position on Wall Street works out. Unless you happen to be the human being, the creation of a loving God, that is destroyed - killed - in the process. Then it kinda sucks, I would reckon.
Then again, maybe the truly noble thing to do is to accept the circumstances, keep the child, build a life with your new spouse, raise the child as well as you can, and do the best with what God gives you. Apparently, to some people, that’s simply a non-starter, so abhorent it can’t even be considered. I mean…can a human life really be worth a scholarship to Barnard? Hence Obama’s quote about his kids being punished with a baby. For some people, thinking about their daughter having a child before they’ve become comfortably wealthy on their own and established in their career is unthinkable; for others, murdering a child in the womb under any circumstances is equally unthinkable. Does the moral divide between those two choices resonate with you, whatsoever? Are you so numbed by moral relativism that you cannot see that one choice is fundamentally moral, and the other immoral?
What is amazing to me is that, in the space of the same short post, you managed to jump from the moral relativism of insinuating that an abortion would be preferred in this situation, so that at least the two involved could get an education, to the morally absolute judgement of what constitutes good parenting so you could castigate the Palin’s for their daughter becoming pregnant in the first place. Obviously, logical consistency is not your strong suit, MJ. Apparently, blind attacks on any possible aspect of the political “other,” and judgmentalism when it suits your politics, is. I wonder how Mr. Obama would fare under similar scrutiny, were the press to apply the same standards they’ve practiced against Palin’s? I have a feeling he would never have left the Illinois senate.
Obama is a construct.
Obviously, getting pregnant as a teen isn’t what most parents would want, and even the most loving and involved parents have teenager daughters that get into this situation. The fact is, teenagers do make mistakes, alot of ‘em. Some are serious, some aren’t. The mistakes will occur, but what is more important than the missteps is how the teen, and their family,react to them. Now, you could react like a Salon columnist and get a discreet abortion for your teen, so that the scholarship to Vassar and pledge to Delta Gamma remain, and everything in your 18 year plan from the right kindergarten to the position on Wall Street works out. Unless you happen to be the human being, the creation of a loving God, that is destroyed - killed - in the process. Then it kinda sucks, I would reckon.
Then again, maybe the truly noble thing to do is to accept the circumstances, keep the child, build a life with your new spouse, raise the child as well as you can, and do the best with what God gives you. Apparently, to some people, that’s simply a non-starter, so abhorent it can’t even be considered. I mean…can a human life really be worth a scholarship to Barnard? Hence Obama’s quote about his kids being punished with a baby. For some people, thinking about their daughter having a child before they’ve become comfortably wealthy on their own and established in their career is unthinkable; for others, murdering a child in the womb under any circumstances is equally unthinkable. Does the moral divide between those two choices resonate with you, whatsoever? Are you so numbed by moral relativism that you cannot see that one choice is fundamentally moral, and the other immoral?
What is amazing to me is that, in the space of the same short post, you managed to jump from the moral relativism of insinuating that an abortion would be preferred in this situation, so that at least the two involved could get an education, to the morally absolute judgement of what constitutes good parenting so you could castigate the Palin’s for their daughter becoming pregnant in the first place. Obviously, logical consistency is not your strong suit, MJ. Apparently, blind attacks on any possible aspect of the political “other,” and judgmentalism when it suits your politics, is. I wonder how Mr. Obama would fare under similar scrutiny, were the press to apply the same standards they’ve practiced against Palin’s? I have a feeling he would never have left the Illinois senate.
One more thing. Please provide a solid reference for Sarah Palin’s drug use - the National Enquirer does not count. I can find no reputable references after searching through 100 hits on Google.
mj said: “My problem is that people are praising Palin’s kid, instead of saying what she was wrong. Teenage pregnancy is nothing to celebrate. It doesn’t matter whether they are taking responsibility, which in this case means forgoing education.”
And if she’d taken the lib route and gotten an abortion, we could all have lived in happy ignorance about it, right?
Since when has unwed teen pregnancy been something to celebrate?
Now, the father has dropped out of his senior year in High School (another outstanding display of critical thinking skills).
No doubt their baby will be taken care of, regardless of the outcome of the election. However, I find Gov. Palin’s lack of influence over her daughter and future son-in-law to be distressing, to say the least.
She can run for the second highest position in the free world, but her family is paying the price.
This family is becoming a Jerry Springer marathon!
I suggest Sarah Palin remove herself from the ticket, go home, and work on her seriously challenged family.
OEU,
It’s not being celebrated. It is being highlighted as a better choice than aborting the baby, however.
Alaska is one of the few places left where someone actually can find good work in their teens, namely in the oil fields.
I wish both of them good luck.
One-eyed Undertaker: OEU got it right. One thing about Palin, she got where she is by working hard. Not exactly Biden’s story. This is certainly no Jerry Springer story, but if it comforts you to think so, go with it.
4Real: do you know that a Black or Hispanic drop-out in Alaska cannot get a job in the oil fields?
I believe graduating is the way to go. Levi decided not to. He got a job and he isn’t whining.
Panday, glass half-empty, glass half-full. It happened, now it’s about making it all work out.
Libs just can’t stand it!