They wouldn’t dare, would they?

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.”

This is from a British paper—as is the rumor that Biden is about to drop out the race—which means, says Josh Marshall, that it should be taken with a grain of salt or two or three hundred thousand. Still, wouldn’t put it past the McCain camp. And again I ask:

Anyone else concerned that Levi’s appearance tonight at the RNC will put this reluctant dad in the position of feeling that he must go through with marrying Bristol? Anyone else staggered by the emotional manipulativeness of this stunt? Anyone else believe that it would be in the best interests of Levi, Bristol, and their unborn child if made a free choice to marry Bristol—will he be able to have second thoughts?—and didn’t feel that he had to go through with it to save face after he received a hero’s welcome at the RNC from the assembled GOP hypocrites? (Your pregnant unwed teenagers suck! Our pregnant unwed teenagers rock!)

Far be it from me to question anyone else’s parenting, but… where are Levi’s parents?

63 replies on “The Wedding Party”

  1. But who would replace her? If it’s not a woman, you lose all the “hockey moms”. If it’s not a hard-core Christian, you lose all the Christianists. God forbid it would be Romney – he’s “not a Christian” (but would bring in the Mormon vote) What if it were Huckabee: Christian as all get-out, but almost as freaky as Palin. Guiliani? Yuck.

    In any event, the undecided will see the truth: She was a huge mistake, and they realized it.

    Dropping her would be even more of a disaster than keeping her.

  2. Evan Bayh
    Bayh currently serves on five Senate Committees: Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, for which he is the Chairman of the Subcommittee on International Trade and Finance; Armed Services; the Select Committee on Intelligence; the Special Committee on Aging; and the Small Business Committee.

  3. The wedding is never going to come off. The un-employed, highschool drop-out will cut and run. He’s probably too chicken shit to do it now, but he will. He will. That horndog wants no-strings pussy. Not a wife, kids, 9 to 5, and a mortgage. The GOP can try and spin him into the dream son-in-law, but it ain’t gonna happen. He didn’t marry the girl he knocked up in eighth grade, he’s not gonna marry this one. Hell, he’s got the stank of deadbeat daddy all over him.

  5. The tracking polls are all +5 & +6, and that’s three day averages – his first day after the debate polled at +9!

    A double digit lead in October is live boy/dead girl territory. The rethugs are already working on 2012 – 2008 is a lost cause why burn through another candidate?

    BTW – I was rewatching his January speeches again tonight – what a difference. I know it’s only been 10 months but he looks a lot older now.

  8. Bill Clinton, last Thursday on Larry King, talking about going down to Florida for Obama to ‘hustle up the cracker vote?’

    The word “cracker” does not mean what you seem to think it means in this context. Look it up.

  9. Everybody needs to shut the fuck up, get their heads out of Bristol’s uterus, and focus on the economy. Remember how the assholes in power used Sadam Hussain to distract everybody from asking why they hadn’t caught Osama bin Laden? (Remember him?) Same thing.

  10. #58 … Before checking, I seem to recall that, from my days living in Florida, “cracker” means a native Floridian … now, I’ll go to check.

    Your reference appears to confirm what I remember. Though so smart a person as Bill Clinton can hardly be unaware of the other meaning of the word, which is evidently what sprang to your mind as you read my comment.

  11. Contrary to some of the comments above, the paper that got the wedding leak is not a right-wing tabloid, it’s the London Times (http://www.thetimesonline.co.uk) .

    The Times is a somewhat conservative paper, and is not at all anti-American. It’s not the most right-wing of London’s Dailies at all – the Telegraph is far to the right of the Times. Either the Times or the Telegraph woud be an ideal candidate for a leak from the McCain campaign, and the article is full of quotes from nameless staffers. There’s every reason to think it’s legit.

    The Daily Mail – which had the Biden rumour – is a tabloid, and should be taken with a BIG grain of salt.

  12. “….focus on the economy. Remember how the assholes in power used Sadam Hussain to distract everybody from asking why they hadn’t caught Osama bin Laden? (Remember him?) Same thing.”

    Focusing on the economy is admirable, however the real focus should be on the
    developing conflict between Pakistan and Afganistan where NATO troops are the
    meat being fed into the grinder. Pakistan has a dysfunctional government, a military sympathetic to various tribal leaders in
    its northwest territories boardering Afganistan and nuclear weapons whose security would likley be compromised if order within the country ceases to exist.

  13. Levi’s parents are keeping mum because they really don’t want a lot of reporters snooping around and finding that meth lab of theirs.
    And for the record, Levi is a “former hockey playing high school dropout:.

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