Yet Another Distraction: The McCain Campaign Plans Bristol Palin's Wedding
By Nicole Belle Saturday Sep 27, 2008 4:00pm
Yes, that is a tattoo of Bristol's name on Baby Daddy Levi Johnston's ring finger. Anyone else picturing Todd Palin brandishing a shotgun at the tattoo parlor? And just because this campaign can't get surreal enough, from TPM:
(Given) what we've seen so far, I can't say I'd be surprised if the moral jalopy that is the McCain-Palin Straight Talk Express sunk us even further into farce with something like this. From the Times of London ...
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.
If this actually sways a single voter, I weep for my country.
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Lets face it the Palins are white trash.
If this does happen to sway a voter, then my country is indeed doomed. Will the last sane person in the United States, please turn the lightd out.
OMG, you left out the most telling part of the quote!!!!
“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.”
That is the plan, to waste another week of the campaign!!!
McLame stalling for time!!!
Please correct post.
First!!!!
She's all ready registered at Moocy's.
Talk about making your family campaign tools, maybe those kids do not want to get married yet.
Aren't sexual relations with a girl under the age of 18 considered statutory rape ? Why hasn't that angle been brought up ?
I've been weeping for my country for four years now.
That's sickening. For a lot of reasons.
I may not be frist..... But does he have that moose in the headlights going on? Borrowing from someone else. Moosehead,,, a fine beer in the lower 48. In Alaska,, a felony
idealistic in NM @ 7:
Perhaps AK is closer to WV in more ways than imaginable.
Oh it will sway voters all right. I think the backlash to such a transparent ploy will be palpable.
MsJoanne @ 11:
16 in Alaska I believe. Same as in Norway.
Jebus Christmas, do I feel sorry for those two kids. No way either of them is ready for marriage or kids.
Yaahhoooo! Uncle Johnny Mac will pass around the jug!! Nothin' elitist here! Aunt Cindy'll fix 'em right up with a big house with its very own cement pond!! Umm, umm can't wait to get me some caribou stew.
wouldnt surprise me in the least.
by the way.. anyone wanna take odds on Palin "suspending campaign" or having to ditch debate because of a "family issue"?
zz4mula @ 10:
That's just amphetamine withdrawal.
I'd also weep as well. But, you know this is what the Republicans do: use emotionality as a way to get votes and use fear to keep those votes from migrating.
No wonder they laugh at us overseas.
Parading this out of wedlock teenager across the National air waves again.. would be outrageous!
Send money to Planned parenthood for Palin
http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2008/sep/23/palin-opponents-shower...
These two kids (emphasis definitely on the word "kids") should be planning for college, not planning for a wedding and a baby.
Somebody else made the comment about "white trash". Yep.
Two eighteen year olds having a shotgun marriage is a cause for celebration? This is so warped how could anyone thing this is a good idea? It shows what moral low lifes we are dealing with. Anything for a distraction for a campaign.
Just a thought Nicole, but are getting a little deperate if this is all you can post on in a national election? You must really scared of what is in the future for you. Don't worry, if Mcain is elected, at least you will have four more years of some kind of life bloggin g to the internet.
Cheers.
idealistic in NM @ 7:
Police in Alaska are too busy investigating huge numbers of sexual assault cases.
This reads like an Onion parody. Could they possibly be this crass? And if they are, can it be anything but the final nail in the campaign?
It seems Sarah Palin would sacrifice about anything to stay on the ticket. This is like watching an American Idol episode where the folks do not realize how bad their voices are. Sarah does not care about our country otherwise she would resign. She is clearly not up to the job. Not even close
Kid looks uncomfortable without his wife-beater T-shirt.
Shouldn't the party of 'family values' be against this out of wedlock pregnancy? White trash indeed.
I guess she's applied for Medicaid, WIC, and all the other social programs too.
Here's her wedding song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7trIpspUILg
trevjr @ 3:
Uh, no. We WANT you to link back to the other site. That's the way it works, we whet your appetite, and hopefully you read further. That's why other sites don't mind you excerpting--but not lifting wholly--their work.
idealistic in NM @ 7:
We looked it up at the beginning of the Bristol scandal. Age of consent in Alaska is 16.
My guess is the hockey playing knuckle dragger got 50 to 100 k. If he did not, he should have.
trevjr @ 3:
I can see it now. Dear Barrack, please suspend your campaign for a week so Bristol can get married.
Cadaquues Spain @ 22:
They're the ones parading a shotgun wedding between two teens as a way to distract the voters from discussing actual issues and you think I'M desperate?
This has reached such absurd levels that I don't think anyone could write this as a story and have it come off as believable.
maybe they are cousins and then they will fit right in the lower united states.
oh if obama had a 17 year old pregant.
their would be hellllllllll to pay for that one
this is our country
here is how europe loooks at us
http://euobserver.com/
we are the laughing stock of the world with our cash for trash bailout and our politics of soccer mom politics
they now know out super power days are over
it took two illegal wars to do it but god works in mysterious ways
Demdude @ 21:
Sorry,,,, I still am betting on a hunting trip with Cheney gone awry will do him in. Either that or a snowmobile accident with the first dude of Alaska.
Will Sarah charge the wedding to the State of Alaska, or the the U.S. of A?
http://satiricalpolitical.com/?p=3065
I have a friend who is a divorce attorney and she told me under 21 weddings make her horny because it insures her staying in business. Just look at the young guys face, it says "I just wanted to bang this spoiled bitch, and now look at the fucking mess I'm in." This is nothing more than a classic shot gun wedding.
Hahahahahaa hahahahaha !
And there will be coverage, CNN,MSNBC, and Fox for sure. The idiot MSM will follow McCain's parade of retardation.
In every picture, those two always have that look like they don't even know the person that they are sitting next to yet they are about to be married. The clerics in Iran couldn't have arranged a forced marriage any better than Palin thats for sure.
idealistic in NM @ 7:
Alaska statutory rape law in this case is that anyone who is 18 years old or older
who has sex with a person who is 16 or 17, or who is at least three years younger
than the offender, can be charged with sexual abuse in the third degree (a felony).
But, the age difference of these two kids is less than three years.
You can bet poor Levi is hoping that the veep debate is an utter disaster.
Her failure is his only chance at freedom.
Run Levi, RUN!!!!!!
On the bright side, maybe they'll get The Reverend Kirbyjon Caldwell to officiate.
After all, he officiated the Jenna Bush wedding, and has also endorsed Obama.
In this election, an unmarried pregnant teenage daughter is a feature, not a bug
Demdude @ 21:
Nothing like a shotgun wedding to showcase the effectiveness of abstinence only education. /s
Count on Americans to turn farce into tragedy and back into farce and not recognize the difference.
The McCain campaign is getting more and more desperate. I wonder what the freak show will be looking like in coming weeks. So he's behind in the polls a little and it's totally stressing them out.
He is just the kind of guy I want to be president - one who when stressed a little starts collapsing in the most dramatic way possible. I wonder how much they're paying Levi to marry into the circus.
Another reason to wear a condom.
Dear Cadaquues,
Obviously this is important as it seems that all right-wing parties use their families for political gestures. Just think back to our beloved former leader Mr. Aznar (a bossoom buddy of King George) and the fastuous wedding he organized for his own dear little girl (Spanish palace included and heads of state invited). Perhaps the Palin's could organise this wedding in the White House and invite some heads of state so that Sarah could get some international experience.
P.D: Thanks Nicole for your time and effort making this an interesting place to visit to get a pulse on some American curiosities.
trevjr @ 3:
Actually, it would finally replace a low-speed police chase of a white Ford Bronco as a new low in "Live News" coverage.
MsJoanne @ 8:
Not me..I have been weeping for 8 truly and I am sick of it!
Sue @ 50:
Amen!
Maybe the boy could find consolation in some of the late Sam Kinison videos on Youtube.
I expect her to use her family again in the debate, as she did in the October 2, 2006 Alaskan gubernatorial debate.
In this case, she used her family in a dispute about a local issue involving racial heritage.
Palin, a member of the Alaska Outdoor Council and a (nearly) lifetime resident of the predominantly white and right-wing Mat-Su Valley, has been touting the Nativeness of her husband (a whopping 1/8th Yupik) and that of her children (a staggering 1/16th) as a campaign issue.
http://kodiakkonfidential.blogspot.com/2006/10/palin-bitch-slaps-herself...
Come on!
Shotgun weddings are very Presidential.
It's an American Tradition & happens with almost every Presidential
and/or Vice Presidential candidate in every election this Nation has ever had.
You can look it up.
why would you plan a wedding in the middle of your mothers bid for vice president!
this smacks of politics, its kinda gross
A few weeks ago, her Facebook page was under Bristol Palin-Johnston. She has no Facebook page anymore.
Ah good so your not trying to censor this story. I tried to post about 10 times last night on the open thread and yall blocked it, what gives?
Anyways, I think this will be the stunt of the week to either get Palin out of the debate, or to get the focus shifted off the debate right quick.
John (Spain) @ 47:
President Zapatero is not welcome at the White House unless Obama is elected, or John McCain figures out that Spain is a NATO member.
Welcome to American Theocracy.
These poor children! They had sex, and there's a baby on the way. Bristol is told she is not allowed to make her own decision on this matter -- she has no choice about her own body and no choice in her marriage. She has to do what is good for god and country. No one involved in this sickening authoritarian display seems to care whether Levi will be a good father to his child as long as he agrees on paper to trap himself into a life he might not want.
Weep because of voters possibly swayed? Weep because there are so many authoritarian theocrats the GOP is trying to keep on board! This legion of willful morons who will happily surrender their liberty and their very minds to a Christian Theocracy will not really be happy until the rest of us submit as well.
This is a sickening display of forced submission.
Prediction 1: Bristol will wear a long white dress.
Prediction 2: The media will spend more time, thought and effort on the question of whether she deserves to wear a white dress than you ever thought possible.
They're selling postcards of the hanging
They've painted the passports brown
The beauty parlor is filled with sailors
The circus is in town . . . .
"Desolation Row" - Bob Dylan
Am I the only one that still thinks that Palin's latest baby is really Bristol's baby??????????
Of course Palin will go for it. It's a freebie with the wedding and all expenses paid for by McBush contributors. When has Palin ever turned done a freebie? It would be UnAlaskan.
I'm surprised McCain wants to bring this subject back up. The country has pretty much forgotten about this fun little aspect of the Palins. Do they really want to remind people of this? I wouldn't think so......
Karen @ 58:
Exactly. That's why this entire situation is very sad to me. It seems that Bristol had no choice in the matter. Sarah Palin profits at the expense of her own child. She's no worse than a stage mother.
The picture at the top of the page tells me they're SO MUCH in love.
He has the same thing tatooed on his schwantz. The difference is that when he gets excited it says Bristol Conneticut. What that means is, first he scews the daughter and after the election he starts working on the rest of the country.
I wonder if Bush and Cheney will be there? Condi could play the wedding march on the piano.
anybody seen "The Birdcage?"
The Very Bitter Ceci Hussein @ 64:
It's a shotgun wedding. I wonder how much fear and intimidation this boy and his family have gone though. You will marry my daughter or I'll have the state troopers go after your family.
Its all just so deeply,deeply dumb.
This will thrill the base, who is looking for any reason to celebrate and elevate this far-right hockey-mom. But I have to believe it will embarass and turn off the independants. So hopefully it will swing them.
WOW, if you haven't been "crying for your country" for the past eight years it won't do much good to start now...and, even if this is a plant it IS getting attention, therefore already a distraction!
Maybe they can get a couple of old farts from a nursing home to be witnesses at the wedding...just like Sarah and the 1st dude did when he knocked her up!
Barrett D @ 54:
Smacks of politics? SMACKS? It virtually SCREAMS politics!
Nicole Belle @ 29:
idealistic in NM @ 7:
>>>>>We looked it up at the beginning of the Bristol scandal. Age of consent in Alaska is 16.
Thanks for the clarification.
And a thousand thanks for running such an informative, cohesive, and awesome site. I'm addicted.
Nicole: Thank YOU, and you're welcome. :)
Weep for your country not because this may persuade a poor misguided low-information voter, but because we no longer have a functional free press. The corporate media will fall for this hook line and sinker.
Scott @ 71:
Stop calling her a hockey mom. She is no more a hockey mom than I am Greta Garbo. She is a vile, self promoting, trailer trash, Dominionist, and extremely, willfully ignorant piece of shit!
upchuck @ 69:
You know, upchuck, I wonder that as well. Levi clearly looks as if he doesn't want to be there. It's all in his body-language. He's a kid who just wants to chase girls. And unfortunately, one stupid act has caused him to end up having the mother of all mother-in-laws.
And now his reckless act has cause his family as well as himself entangled with the Sarah Palin machine.
It's like Gossip Girl or Privileged on Steroids.
HAVE THEY NO SHAME?
USING THE FAMILY FOR POLITICAL PURPOSES!!
When did he get the tattoo? I ate a plate of sushi and drank a bottle of plum wine one night just so I could get laid.
Norse @ 13:
Then again we don't know when he fired his first shot. We only know when he sank her battleship.
Here's a crazy notion for another version of the October Surprise...
McCain gets Palin to take herself out of the race at the last minute, (spend more time with her family and all that) so he can bring in another, better choice for VP. Let's face it. Anyone will look better. The new candidate will be inserted into the race mere weeks before the election, leaving little, if any, time to be vetted by the media even to the degree that Palin has been. It will reanimate the election for the conservatives and make McCain look like a maverick once again. This fresh dog and pony show will again capture the attention of the pundits and the people, taking the media's attention away from substantive issues. Shock and awe.
It could happen. Could it happen?
I guess this means the end of freelevi.org
http://freelevi.org/Real_Time_with_Bill_Maher.html
idealistic in NM @ 7:
Depends on which state you're talking about. In Alaska it's under 16.
todd @ 61:
Some others think the pregnancy will miscarry to cover for Bristol. Sarah's return from Texas to that remote medical facility was so she could be with Bristol when she delivered and then claimed the baby as her's. Would an examination of Bristol prove that she has given birth already? Could a miscarriage of this pregnancy make it impossible to tell if she had delivered previously?
Just look at the kids, they are both so miserable! Nothing in their expressions says they are happy about their situation or even want to get married. They are being forced into it. I feel sorry for them both. They should refuse to let the so called adults in their lives play political games while ruining their lives.
Pericles @ 84:
However, it also means they won't be spending their honeymoon at John and Cindy's place in Arizona.
If McCain/Palin get the presidency, Palin may as well pull the mobile home behind the white house, because that's where he kids will be livin'.
I know it's been said: I McCain/Palin are voted into the white house, we as a nation get everything we deserve.
Spencer @ 82:
This is actually looking like a realistic scenario. They dump Palin and substitute someone like Kay Hutchison hoping for a last minute bump to put them over the top. In which case Barney would be wrong; that would be the greatest Hail Mary play of all time. Sustitute VPs don't really work all that well. Commune with McGovern for a first hand perspective. It would open McCain to serious questions about his judgment. Then again, we've had lots of examples of poor McCain judgment and it hasn't sunk him yet.
How else can we exploit the mistakes of these kids? By adding more mistakes to the pile!
Better idea. Let's get in with the groom and see if he would rather not be married into this family and then see if Canada will offer him asylum.
Spencer @ 82:
I don't think it would go over well, Spencer. The press has finally started to call out McCain over his stunts, his gambler's mentality, and the public has caught on- look at Obama's spike in the polls. They'd chew McVacillate up and spit him out if Palin is not on the ticket- for ANY reason- come November.
Why not? Soap operas and prime-time dramas alike always get a little ratings boost from weddings -- remember when General Hospital even had Laura marry her rapist, Luke? Trash is right.
Oh I get it now, he's entered the Alaskan school of proctological sciences and he wanted to be prepared.
gallery @ 40:
I hear Russia can be seen from Alaska. He could defect and ask for political asylum. :)