Wednesday - September 03, 2008

Sarah Palin’s daughter’s ‘redneck’ boyfriend adds to McCain campaign woes .

Don’t shoot the messenger. 

This is the story reported here from Brit covering things in USA election.

I don’t normally boot at 7am but wanted to get this posted early.  Other stuff online as well on other topics has me convinced I shouldn’t be allowed to read the paper or boot a puter when I haven’t any Valium or Xanax handy.  I just know the left here is gonna make a big deal out of it.
Anyway, these kids (and they are that no matter the maturity) are really too young to become parents. Don’t ya think?  Had Miss Palin and friend never heard of, “The Pill.?” Golly. Loretta Lynn told all who would listen to it, all about it. And all in a song!  Oh well.  I wish em good luck. They’re gonna need it.  Even with money, altho it’s a great cushion, will only go so far.  Luck counts as much.

Levi Johnston, a self-described “------’ redneck” who does not “want kids”, is set to join Sarah Palin’s family at Republican convention.
By Toby Harnden in St Paul
Last Updated: 4:51AM BST 03 Sep 2008

Bristol Palin and Levi Johnston. Christian conservatives accuse Democrats of using Miss Palin’s pregnancy to discredit her mother Photo: AP
The bad-boy image of Levi Johnston, 18, the boyfriend of Bristol Palin, 17, added to the pressure surrounding Senator John McCain after his decision to choose Mrs Palin as a running mate in the Republican bid for the White House.

The details follow the disclosure that, as late as 1996, Mrs Palin, 44, the Governor of Alaska, had been a member of the Alaskan Independence Party, which wants a vote on whether the state can secede from the United States.

There were also reports that Mrs Palin, who has portrayed herself as a fighter against corruption and a doughty opponent of wasteful government spending, secured $27 million (£15million) in federal funds for the small town of Wasilla, where she was mayor until two years ago.

Democrats seized on the claims about Mrs Palin as evidence that Mr McCain had poor judgment because he had failed to vet her properly.

However, senior McCain aides said that a vetting team had been in Alaska before the Arizona senator made his choice. “You can’t confuse secrecy with lack of vetting,” said one adviser.

A dozen McCain aides have been sent to Alaska to help Mrs Palin’s family and to rebut the claims against her.

Some Republicans linked to the attacks believed that Mr McCain had sacrificed thoroughness in the vetting process so that secrecy could be maintained.

The surprise choice of Mrs Palin could make or break Mr McCain’s battle for the White House. Republican activists are delighted that a strongly anti-abortion mother of five who is an avid hunter has been chosen.

But Democrats scent blood and believe they can paint Mrs Palin as “Dan Quayle in a dress” – the description applied to her by Karen Thurman, a former member of the House of Representatives.

Mr Quayle was chosen as George W Bush’s running mate in 1988 after a cursory vetting process failed to find serious weaknesses in his character and record.

(ok, help me out here ppl. I knew his record wasn’t much but I’d never heard about some weakness in character. ?? But then, I wasn’t paying much attn.)

Christian conservatives have covered Mrs Palin with praise for supporting her daughter, who is five months pregnant and is due to marry Mr Johnston. There has been criticism of Democrats and the media, which is being accused of exploiting a private issue.

“They have been using this 17-year-old girl as a battering ram against her mother and against social conservatives,” said Gary Bauer, a leading evangelical and former Republican presidential hopeful.

“It’s disgraceful. All families wrestle with these issues and try to teach their kids the best they can. But children make mistakes. The whole pro-life movement is built around helping women in crisis pregnancies. We don’t judge these women. If we did, they wouldn’t come to us.”

Associated Press reported that Mr Johnston plans to join the family of the Republican vice presidential candidate at the GOP convention.

Levi Johnston’s mother said her 18-year-old son left Alaska on Tuesday morning. Sherry Johnston also said there has been no pressure put on her son to marry Bristol Palin.

“Absolutely not,” Sherry Johnston told reporters outside the family’s Wasilla home. Johnston said the two teens already had plans to marry before they knew she was pregnant.

On his MySpace page, Mr Johnston, an avid ice hockey player, proudly declares: “I’m a ------’ redneck” who would kick ass if anyone gave him trouble. I live to play hockey. I like to go camping and hang out with the boys, do some fishing,” he said on the social networking the site.

Poignantly, in the one part of the site where it asks about children, he wrote, “I don’t want kids.”

The web page was removed yesterday and appeared not to have been accessed for a year.

Bill Sturdevant, coach of the Wasilla Warriors ice hockey team, told the New York Daily News: “He was a good kid to be around, with lots of friends. He was well-liked.”

Last year Johnston had to pay a $370 bail after state troopers caught him catching salmon out of season in Moose Lake, a popular Alaskan fishing location.

(Isn’t that a hanging offense in Alaska? Quick, get a rope.  Jeesh.  Is the enemy stretching things in their never ending search for evil doers on our side?)

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