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Bristol Votes for Reconciliation – Goes Rogue

Oy.

Bristol “abstinence” Palin and Levi “Playgirl” Johnston have apparently buried the hatchet, and plan to start a new life together.

The young sweethearts announced their reconciliation, and engagement to be wed on the pages of US Weekly Magazine. And no, they didn’t tell the ex-half-governor before hand.  She learned it from the newsstand, unless she has a subscription.  Awkward…

Ah, to have been a fly on the wall in Wasilla today.

Now comes the hard part: Getting the blessing of Sarah Palin, who has made no secret of her feelings for Levi. He provoked her fury last fall when he claimed that she had called her infant son Trig (who has Down syndrome) “retarded.” She fired back, telling reporters that anyone who posed for Playgirl would “say and do anything for even more attention.” Later, during an interview with Oprah Winfrey, she dubbed him “Ricky Hollywood” and called his “aspiring porn” career “heartbreaking.”

Says Bristol, “It is intimidating and scary just to think about what her reaction is going to be. Hopefully she will jump on board.”

The Palins released a statement on the Today show Wednesday morning: “Bristol at 19 is now a young adult. We obviously want what’s best for our children. Bristol believes in redemption and forgiveness to a degree most of us struggle to put in practice in our daily lives.”

Translation:  “@#%!”

Sarah and Todd may find it easier to hop on board now that Levi has apologized to them for saying some “things that weren’t exactly true,” even though he never said what they were exactly or what the truth actually was. The vague blanket apology came at about the time of the couple’s secret engagement. Go figure.

The once again happy couple will be raising their son Tripp and future little Palin-Johnstons to come under the same roof.  They have vowed that starting now, they will remain abstinent until the wedding night.

No wait.  Starting NOW.

No wait…

According to reports, we can expect the wedding in Alaska within the next six weeks. That should be interesting.

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  1. Joyce says:

    OMG – another premature Palin/Johnston pregnancy to cover up – (or whoever the “abstinance queen” is pregnant by) . Both of these fam-damilies are just plain nuts. MAKE THEM GO AWAY!!!

  2. Dagian says:

    “As parents we obviously want what is best for our children, but Bristol is ultimately in charge of determining what is best for her and her beautiful son.”

    I caught that ‘but’, it negates anything she says or writes that seems the slightest bit forgiving or not insulting.

    She’s just so…classy! Keep it up, the world deserves to know all about the real $arah!

    If I were Levi, I’d make certain to have Bristol and the baby be my taste-testers if I were at any meal where I wasn’t the host. Even then, I wouldn’t put it past the Palins to feed him chocolate ex-lax fudge.

    Is it true that his family isn’t going to be invited to the wedding? Wow. That’s…wow. Appalling. Invite both immediate families or neither. If you’re going to snub an entire branch of your newly extended family, then at least keep it a secret!

  3. Judy says:

    The July 14 New Yorker blog has an amusing piece about Bristol+Levi. “Meanwhile, Levi Johnston, an Alaskan politico-celebrity figure of some sort (it’s not clear that he’d made the A, or even C list), who was either tricked away from Sarah Palin’s camp by her enemies or defected willingly, bearing secrets of indeterminate value, has said he wants to be part of the family after all….”
    Read more: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/closeread/2010/07/palins-and-spies.html#ixzz0tnslJ4F8

  4. Motorhead says:

    I thought this excerpt from the US Weekly article was poignant. Wish Bristol had said “I didn’t blink, Charlie…”

    In Us Weekly’s video, Bristol glowed as she snuggled next to her fiancé and talked about how he had proposed.

    “I came home from work one day, and there was tons of flowers all over my room, and there’s flowers, like rose petals, in the shape of a heart on my bed,” she said. “Then he got down on one knee and asked me to marry him.”

    Bristol didn’t have to think about her response.

    “There was no hesitation at all,” she said.

    • overthemoon says:

      HA! I was going to post a link to that as well. So how are the Palin’s going to keep a muzzle on everyone they know? Also noted that Palin’s response was a bit different than stated elsewhere. Even snarkier.

      • overthemoon says:

        Oh, and the other question. What is Track doing hanging around? Is he ‘out’ of the army already?

  5. Carol says:

    To all who have called the quitter, ex not even half term governor, the “queen of mean” or snarky, hateful, or one of my favorites, the “queen of manufactured affront”, please let these 2 young people alone. Smile, be nice, and go on to things that matter. Like the wars, economy, jobs, health insurance coverage, oil spill. Feel free to unload on the quitter when she opens her mouth, as she will, but Bristol and Levi should be afforded some privacy and whatever they wear to their wedding is their business. As to why such a short engagement period, come on, people. Two young people – gotta know their hormones and lust are raging. Getting married sooner rather than later only makes sense.
    So, please leave them alone, unless, they start making policy statements such as her mother is wont to do, you know, the ones that are totally not thought thru and have little resemblence to reality.
    I have to comment that they (legal adults, living on their own) were afraid to tell Sarah and Todd about getting married; what does that say for those who demand girls (minors under parental control and probably roof) tell their parents that they are pregnant and want an abortion? If a daughter of mine was seeking an abortion, I would want to know, but the real intent about parental notification is NO ABORTION. Not Parents’ rights, but NO ABORTION.

    • Village Reader says:

      If they wanted privacy they shouldn’t have announced it on US magazine.

    • Anna says:

      You’re joking, right?. They don’t want to be left alone. Magazine covers, tv interviews, private moments, these two are selling it. They want to be celebrities, they want you to talk about them. Of, course, they only want adoration, which they expect, because that’s what the media gives their mentor. Leave them alone and no magazine sales, no reality show. Then where will they be? Look at this reality show bound family, then think of Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton. Like the Clinton’s or not, you have to give them credit for having real family values.

    • nswfm says:

      Carol, the only way they can make real money is by being public about all their soap opera, thus the commentary that goes with not eloping. I agree with you about that “they (legal adults, living on their own) were afraid to tell Sarah and Todd about getting married; what does that say for those who demand girls (minors under parental control and probably roof) tell their parents that they are pregnant and want an abortion? If a daughter of mine was seeking an abortion, I would want to know, but the real intent about parental notification is NO ABORTION. Not Parents’ rights, but NO ABORTION.”

  6. DonnaInMichigan says:

    If I could give Levi Johnston one piece of advice it would be:

    RRRRRRUUUUUUNNNNNNNN!!!!

    • nswfm says:

      That was my advice last January. I still think this little family is doomed. It’s the pattern that has already been established. The little kid is sure cute, though and I feel sorry for him and his aunt and grandmother Johnston.

  7. G Katz says:

    Maybe I accidentally put on rose colored glasses, but I cannot believe that Sarah is behind this. I can’t see how even the spin queen herself could turn this around. Her daughter announces her plans to marry in a magazine and asks for Sarah’s support in front of the world? And Sarah issues a barely civil statement about it totally lacking in graciousness? If Sarah had orchestrated this, would she not have wanted to control the announcement and timing herself to make it look like a big happy family thing rather than an on-again/off-again shotgun wedding? It sure makes her appear to be lacking in the parenting skills and instincts she screeched about in her video. As for Levi’s motives, who knows. Maybe he is using the situation, but I can’t help but hope for the best for them. And, as others have said, they should stay as far away from the inlaws as they can and leave the circus behind. Although, considering that they used the media for their announcement as they did, it does leave me a little conflicted. Okay. Got that off my chest. Now back to worrying about more important things like the oil spill, the lack of jobs, and Sowah’s technical climbing of Sugar whatever mountain.

  8. karen marie says:

    Who wants to bet against a second Palin-Johnston being born “prematurely” seven months from now?

  9. Lower48 says:

    I predict a July 31st weddin’ date. WHY? Sowa will want to redirect the thunder of the MSM from former First Daughter Chelsea Clinton’s wedding on that date… and turn the spotlight onto herself… and…. oh, yeah….. HER First Daughter gittin’ married! Ain’t nobody gonna upstage a Palin family weddin’. ‘Specially since the groom gon’ be wearin’ camo!!!! YOU BETCHA!!

  10. Pat says:

    So how did People magazine AND US Weekly both get “exclusives” the same week? Did Bristol double-dip and promise both publications that “I’m not talking to anyone but YOU”? If she did, I’ll be interested to see what sort of coverage they give her in the furture.

    • Dagian says:

      Are both magazines owned by the same parent company?

      For years “Mad Magazine” was owned by…Warner Corporation. Sometimes the writers could get press passes and then skewer everyone and everything.

      *sighs*

      I think I’m going to take my son to the local comic book store. Well, one of two that I patronize.

  11. trisha08 says:

    Who wants to bet that Bristol will go into hiding for a few months so they can fudge the birth date of her latest child? Then, Palin will parade them around as an example of an upstanding Christian family? Why the big rush to get married in the next 6 weeks. Hmmmmmm.

    Also, that way, Bristol can keep her Candie’s contract. I wonder if they know that she is preggers. They had to have seen her growing belly from her recent appearances. She is so pregnant in those photos in US magazine.

  12. trisha08 says:

    I don’t believe for a second that Palin just found out about this engagement. I believe that Mama Grizzly brokered this shotgun wedding between these two for her political benefit.

    Palin is just wrapping up loose ends before she announces her run in ’12. 1) she legitimizes her daughter who is a single mom. 2) she get’s Levi on a lease so he won’t spill the beans 3) She makes sure that Bristol is married when she gives birth to current baby. Why the shotgun wedding?

    Palin just sealed the deal with the Religious Right with this move, and by buying Levi’s silence she just bought a bunch of other votes too.

    I am sure that Levi and Bristol are getting $$$$$$$$$$$ and a condo from Palin to work it out and keep their traps shut.

    • bronislawa blumschaefter says:

      but she wanted a shotgun wedding before the ’08 election, and the younguns wouldn’t cooperate. Why should it be different this time, UNLESS Sarah has more $$ to offer Levi?

  13. Chris says:

    A wedding in the next 6 weeks, huh?

    Just in time for a Discovery Channel ‘Sarah Palin’s Alaska’ episode? You betcha!

  14. Joe the Alaskan says:

    Why is everybody trying to come up with a baby name starting with “T”?

    Why not keep it simple, if a boy “Ben” if a girl “Benjamina” after the father!

  15. Jerry G says:

    Safe to assume they’re registered at Walmart.

  16. Rationalist says:

    I must just be tired, but Foreleg! Omigod, that’s funny.

    However, I’m sticking with the T names, to go with Trig and Tripp. From the various comments on the various blogs, my favorites so far are Trap and Trois.

    Good night, folks.

  17. Kat says:

    OK, call me cynical, but I don’t believe for a minute that Sarah isn’t behind this whole thing. They have to try to clean up the family image before her dash to claim the White House and two things (maybe more) can be accomplished by this engagement – 1. It will prevent Levi from speaking out about the things he knows will bring her down, and 2. Bristol’s ex (Ben Barber?) probably said “Thanks but no thanks” when presented with the news that she is again PG. The time line between that break up & the big reconciliation is just too close for comfort. Levi is still hung up on her & will do anything to be with his son. He better get a DNA test as soon as the new one is born. Run Levi Run! This will only last until Mama Sow loses again.

  18. beth says:

    This whole thing is very odd to me. I can see if the young couple eloped and then told the mag that Mama Grizz didn’t know, before they did it, that they were going to [elope], to me, that sounds completely plausible and logical. Happens all the time.

    But to tell Mama Grizz through the mag article that they’re (re-)engaged? That’s just too weird for science. Somehow, I don’t believe it for a minute. beth.

    • bronislawa blumschaefter says:

      I don’t believe a single word that comes out of the mouth of anyone named Palin or Johnston – these are greedy, uneducated hillbillies who hit the lottery, and there’s not a member of either side of the family who will say two words in public without thinking about how much s/he’ll get paid for saying it.

      Having established that, I’m extrapolating, based on the information available, that Bristol and Levi have been sleeping together for an indeterminate amount of time since their first baby was born, that Sarah does not approve, and that everybody is trying to profit from this information to the maximum extent possible.

    • I hate to interrupt, but didn’t some pseudo-famous person say recently that mom’s just sorta know when things happen? Can you imagine a life spent with SP looming large behind everything you do? Wedding pictures with the evil one in the background, sorta like a ghostly image. Levi will need chiropractic care from having to look over his shoulder always.

  19. Baker's Dozen says:

    Being afraid to tell Mom that they’re engaged and getting married really soon makes me wonder just what went on when she told Mom she was pregnant. When you’re afraid to tell somebody news, there’s usually a precedent for that feeling
    One wonders if parenting in that house consists of the kids doing what they want, getting in trouble, and then getting screamed at for doing what they were allowed to do in the first place.

  20. Terpsichore says:

    I have always thought that Bristol and Levi could do more good to help keep other teens from becoming pregnant by being honest about what they were doing and why they were doing it, and tempering it with the ‘if I knew then what I know now about parenting …”.

    Teens know BS from other teens when they hear it, and when they do, they tune out. But if Bristol and Levi actually talked about whether they were using birth control methods, or had ever talked about it, or if their parents had ever talked to them about sex and how the conversation went, that would resonate. Kids are hungry for information and if they don’t get it from mom and dad, they will go elsewhere.

    Assuming that Bristol is not telling a lie in any way when she says they are remaining abstinent until marriage and that she is not pregnant, and since she has not, to my knowledge, made one statement about birth control options, I have to say I do wonder if they are using or will be using any form of birth control. And if they plan to when married, does it, in any real sense, make any difference if they are not abstinent now and using birth control?

    Without trying to go too deep, and stay a bit on the lighter side, I reference Monty Python’s film “The Meaning of Life”. The wife of a Catholic couple literally drops another baby out. They have about 20-30 children (think orphans in the musical “Oliver”).

    Across the street is a Protestant couple, well-dressed, nice house, reading the newspaper and having tea. The husband decries all those kids, the poverty, and chastises the Catholic church for its stance on birth control “Every time they do it, they have a baby!”.

    Wife says “Well, that’s the same with us, isn’t it? We’ve had sex two times, and we have two children”.

    • Cassie Jeep Pike Palin says:

      As a Protestant married to a Catholic for 40 years, I love that joke and always have! The embellishment is that the Protestants have “guest rooms” in their home and the Catholics have a hard time fitting all their children inside their home!

  21. Terpsichore says:

    I have always thought that Bristol and Levi could do more good to help keep other teens from becoming pregnant by being honest about what they were doing and why they were doing it, and tempering it with the ‘if I knew then what I know now about parenting …”.

    Teens know BS from other teens when they hear it, and when they do, they tune out. But if Bristol and Levi actually talked about whether they were using birth control methods, or had ever talked about it, or if their parents had ever talked to them about sex and how the conversation went, that would resonate. Kids are hungry for information and if they don’t get it from mom and dad, they will go elsewhere.

    Assuming that Bristol is not telling a lie in any way when she says they are remaining abstinent until marriage and that she is not pregnant, and since she has not, to my knowledge, made one statement about birth control options, I have to say I do wonder if they are using or will be using any form of birth control. And if they plan to when married, does it, in any real sense, make any difference if they are not abstinent now and using birth control?

    Without trying to go too deep, and stay a bit on the lighter side, I reference Monty Python’s film “The Meaning of Life”. The wife of a Catholic couple literally drops another baby out. They have about 20-30 children (think orphans in the musical “Oliver”).

    Across the street is a Protestant couple, well-dressed, nice house, reading the newspaper and having tea. The husband decries all those kids, the poverty, and chastises the Catholic church for its stance on birth control “Every time they do it, they have a baby!”.

    Wife says “Well, that’s the same with us, isn’t it? We’ve had sex two times, and we have two children”.

    • Cassie Jeep Pike Palin says:

      As a Protestant married to a Catholic for 40 years, I love that joke and always have! The embellishment is that the Protestants have “guest rooms” in their home and the Catholics have a hard time fitting all their children inside their home!

  22. antiAnti says:

    “Obey” loses out to “redemption and forgiveness”.

    Bristol self-trained at 14 months. She catches on quick.

    • Cassie Jeep Pike Palin says:

      Redemption and forgiveness are not words in Quitty’s vocabulary—among many others.

  23. antiAnti says:

    “Obey” loses out to “redemption and forgiveness”.

    Bristol self-trained at 14 months. She catches on quick.

    • Cassie Jeep Pike Palin says:

      Redemption and forgiveness are not words in Quitty’s vocabulary—among many others.

  24. Cassie Jeep Pike Palin says:

    So, is it too early for baby name submissions?

    Trique—————French(?) for trick

    Trix——————as in maybe they all were

    Trio—————–for (possibly?) birth order

    Trap—————-per Gryphen

    Troll—————-for nasty MSM used only when expedient

    • seattlefan says:

      Lol! How about “Troop” ?

      (No offense whatsoever to our Troops…just sayin…)

    • rebekkah says:

      Top gun? Turbo. Tryst.

    • Wolf Pack says:

      Twit?

    • Baker's Dozen says:

      Trunk (for a girl. think pink elephant)
      Trill
      Trollop
      Troy
      Turgid (after the gulf oil spill)
      Trike
      Trilby (a name of a classic book they haven’t read)
      Train
      Tromp
      Truss
      Tread
      Trool (made up)
      Or if they want to watch Sarah steam, they could use the Alaska sites theme:
      Juneau
      Or work related:
      BP
      Valdez
      Bligh
      Prince William Sound
      Exxon
      North Slope (Slope is a great name from Barchester Towers)
      Or from Levi’s side of the family:
      Strauss
      Wrangler
      True Religion (so many innuendoes, so little time)
      Diesel (ditto)
      Lee
      Calvin Kline
      Rider
      Rustler
      Benz (for Auntie)
      Or modes of transportation:
      Leer (I think I’m in love!)
      Boeing
      777
      Apollo
      Mars Rover
      Nova (no go)
      Edsel
      Or sports/games
      Hockey
      Skate
      Scat
      Skunk (think cribbage)
      Zamboni
      Foreleg

      Night all!

    • leftbank says:

      The French word for “trick” is “truc” (pronounced “truck”) which actually sounds perfect for a Palin.

    • dagian says:

      Tabanid
      Tacenda
      Tacent (we can dream!)
      Taenia (I do have my little jokes)
      Tain
      Tetchy
      Tewel
      Tinchel (we can update it for circling helicopters)
      Tombac
      Toran (I feel kindly)
      Torr (but that implies that either of them believe in science)
      Trap (light one-horse carriage)
      Tryma
      TWINK

      OMG–here’s one of the early/rare definitions of Trig!

      trig — stone placed under a wheel to keep it from rolling

  25. Cassie Jeep Pike Palin says:

    So, is it too early for baby name submissions?

    Trique—————French(?) for trick

    Trix——————as in maybe they all were

    Trio—————–for (possibly?) birth order

    Trap—————-per Gryphen

    Troll—————-for nasty MSM used only when expedient

  26. Kallie in Texas says:

    Trig looks more like Levi than Tripp! Wonder what Trap will look like!

    • Martha Unalaska Yard Sign says:

      OMG I can’t believe you just named kid #2 and it’s absolutely perfect! Maybe Trapp?

      • Wolf Pack says:

        My guess, is that we’ve got another one in the oven for a 2012 Sowah run. And that bun just happens to be the immaculate reincarnation of Ronnie Raygun. This ties in with her request to see Margaret Thatcher who she will ask to be Ronnie’s godmother.

  27. Kallie in Texas says:

    Trig looks more like Levi than Tripp! Wonder what Trap will look like!

    • Martha Unalaska Yard Sign says:

      OMG I can’t believe you just named kid #2 and it’s absolutely perfect! Maybe Trapp?

      • Wolf Pack says:

        My guess, is that we’ve got another one in the oven for a 2012 Sowah run. And that bun just happens to be the immaculate reincarnation of Ronnie Raygun. This ties in with her request to see Margaret Thatcher who she will ask to be Ronnie’s godmother.

  28. califpat says:

    exact

  29. califpat says:

    exact

  30. califpat says:

    BMA, I was thinking the exzct same thing!

  31. califpat says:

    BMA, I was thinking the exzct same thing!

  32. Cassie Jeep Pike Palin says:

    So, here’s my question:

    Why do Liberals get painted with the very brush that defines these Moral Conservatives?

    Sorry, but I am a died in the wool Liberal—maybe even a Social Democrat—and I have had one husband for all of my forty years of marriage and four adult children (now) who are educated, gainfully employed and not one of the three daughters ( nor one daughter-in-law) came home pregnant out of wedlock.

    Each of our children knows that nothing they can do or even think of doing is off limits for discussion. There have been no drugs, only minor drinking and loads of laughter and love…dirty Liberal that I am!

    The grandchildren are being raised in the same manor.

    We boast zero arrests, service to others, integrity in anything we do, political activism and service to the poor, yet we are the “bad guys”?

    I just don’t get it! And it’s too late for me to start over (not that I would do anything differently).

    • omomma says:

      Same story. Three children. I do have to credit an extraordinary level of luck though.

    • weaver57 says:

      Ditto! It is possible to raise thinking, concerned kids.

    • lilybart says:

      I would say that Chelsea Clinton is very mature and well-adjusted, never a scandal of any kind. And the Obama famliy is picture perfect as well. And the Bidens are a lovely family.

      Democratic family values seem just fine to me!

  33. Cassie Jeep Pike Palin says:

    So, here’s my question:

    Why do Liberals get painted with the very brush that defines these Moral Conservatives?

    Sorry, but I am a died in the wool Liberal—maybe even a Social Democrat—and I have had one husband for all of my forty years of marriage and four adult children (now) who are educated, gainfully employed and not one of the three daughters ( nor one daughter-in-law) came home pregnant out of wedlock.

    Each of our children knows that nothing they can do or even think of doing is off limits for discussion. There have been no drugs, only minor drinking and loads of laughter and love…dirty Liberal that I am!

    The grandchildren are being raised in the same manor.

    We boast zero arrests, service to others, integrity in anything we do, political activism and service to the poor, yet we are the “bad guys”?

    I just don’t get it! And it’s too late for me to start over (not that I would do anything differently).

    • omomma says:

      Same story. Three children. I do have to credit an extraordinary level of luck though.

    • weaver57 says:

      Ditto! It is possible to raise thinking, concerned kids.

  34. califpat says:

    Pups, do you think Sowah will try to compete Bristol’s wedding with Chelsea’s upcoming wedding? Nahhhhhhhhh! That would be like watching a Beverly Hillbilly wedding and an elegant princess’ wedding. The images are just contrastly too funny!!

  35. califpat says:

    Pups, do you think Sowah will try to compete Bristol’s wedding with Chelsea’s upcoming wedding? Nahhhhhhhhh! That would be like watching a Beverly Hillbilly wedding and an elegant princess’ wedding. The images are just contrastly too funny!!

  36. Palin has made up a new word. Re: Wonkette http://tinyurl.com/33zrbr9

    Word has it that she tweeted the message to “refudiate” the NAACP’s charge… then erased it.. in other words… she TWEELETED it!

    • seattlefan says:

      Tweeleted! (in Palin’s world that equals cyber-white-out) Lol! Kudos to you R’ipley on inventing that word.

    • seattlefan says:

      Also, too….did she repudiate “refudiate”?

  37. Palin has made up a new word. Re: Wonkette http://tinyurl.com/33zrbr9

    Word has it that she tweeted the message to “refudiate” the NAACP’s charge… then erased it.. in other words… she TWEELETED it!

    • seattlefan says:

      Tweeleted! (in Palin’s world that equals cyber-white-out) Lol! Kudos to you R’ipley on inventing that word.

    • seattlefan says:

      Also, too….did she repudiate “refudiate”?

  38. BMA says:

    Shotgun wedding, maybe? I wouldn’t be surprised if Miss Immaculate Conception was with child again. Regarding Tripp, I’ve never seen a baby look less like both parents than this child.

  39. BMA says:

    Shotgun wedding, maybe? I wouldn’t be surprised if Miss Immaculate Conception was with child again. Regarding Tripp, I’ve never seen a baby look less like both parents than this child.

  40. Lynnrockets says:

    Oh, what the heck. This story is just too good to only do one song, although this is the edited version.

    Please remember to click on the song link below to familiarize yourselves with the tune and to have more fun singing along with today’s topical song parody.

    Reunited song link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZOhm7qS-AI

    REUNITED

    (sung to the Peaches and Herb song “Reunited”)

    (Levi’s verse)
    Let’s pool our dough and buy a double-wide
    When I get home I’ll give you quite a ride
    I want you so bad cuz it makes Sarah so mad
    I realize I like you when you’re on your back, hey-hey

    (Bristol’s verse)
    I have my very own Plumber-Joe
    Let’s do it with Rush on the radio
    If I start to gush we can get help from the Dutch
    I know now that I love you though you don’t know much, hey-hey

    (Chorus)
    Reunited, right here on the hood
    Reunited, Levi’s sporting wood
    First Dude don’t like it and Sarah’s pitching a fit
    We’ll both be extradited cuz we’re reunited, hey-hey

    (Levi’s verse)
    I got so tired of my blow-up doll
    And all the fellas in the men’s room stall
    They said I’d go blind if I pulled on what was mine
    I did whatever I could just to earn a dime, hey-hey

    (Bristol’s verse)
    I took a beatin’ honey, every day
    Cuz that’s the Sarah Palin lovin’ way
    Her voice is a hiss, she has venomous kiss
    Her skin looks like old leather from some deep abyss, hey-hey

    (Chorus)
    Reunited, this time it’s for good
    Reunited, off to Hollywood
    We’re a perfect fit, but Sarah she don’t know it
    We hope she gets indicted, we would be excited, hey-hey

    (Levi and Bristol’s verse)
    Oh,
    Holy Mother, we’re so much in love
    And Sarah Palin blames the Lord above
    We are not gay and we are both white
    So we don’t understand why she says its not right, hey-hey

    (Chorus)
    Reunited, this time it’s for good
    Reunited, we’re misunderstood
    We’re a perfect fit, but Sarah she don’t know it
    The world is so excited cuz we’re reunited, hey-hey

    • nswfm says:

      Wow, the imagery of Rush in the background—I need to go buy a gallon of bleach!

      Good work on both songs, lynnrockets.

    • Wolf Pack says:

      I thought you were going to link to Muskrat Love. What were you thinking?

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wv-Yx-vZCGE

    • Whoever wrote that is gifted….truly..! Thank you..I read (sang!) it to my husband…what fun!….and I actually do believe in the power of love! I’m glad for them.

      • Martha Unalaska Yard Sign says:

        If you think that one was good (which it was!) then you ought to check out all of the others at Lynnrockets’ blog (I heart the Mudflats – there is a link on the sidebar). Lynnrockets single handedly did a lot of us in from laughter way back when she/he first showed up in the comments. I am flat amazed at the speed at which this poster can come up with the perfect parody of words to a tune!

  41. Lynnrockets says:

    Oh, what the heck. This story is just too good to only do one song, although this is the edited version.

    Please remember to click on the song link below to familiarize yourselves with the tune and to have more fun singing along with today’s topical song parody.

    Reunited song link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZOhm7qS-AI

    REUNITED

    (sung to the Peaches and Herb song “Reunited”)

    (Levi’s verse)
    Let’s pool our dough and buy a double-wide
    When I get home I’ll give you quite a ride
    I want you so bad cuz it makes Sarah so mad
    I realize I like you when you’re on your back, hey-hey

    (Bristol’s verse)
    I have my very own Plumber-Joe
    Let’s do it with Rush on the radio
    If I start to gush we can get help from the Dutch
    I know now that I love you though you don’t know much, hey-hey

    (Chorus)
    Reunited, right here on the hood
    Reunited, Levi’s sporting wood
    First Dude don’t like it and Sarah’s pitching a fit
    We’ll both be extradited cuz we’re reunited, hey-hey

    (Levi’s verse)
    I got so tired of my blow-up doll
    And all the fellas in the men’s room stall
    They said I’d go blind if I pulled on what was mine
    I did whatever I could just to earn a dime, hey-hey

    (Bristol’s verse)
    I took a beatin’ honey, every day
    Cuz that’s the Sarah Palin lovin’ way
    Her voice is a hiss, she has venomous kiss
    Her skin looks like old leather from some deep abyss, hey-hey

    (Chorus)
    Reunited, this time it’s for good
    Reunited, off to Hollywood
    We’re a perfect fit, but Sarah she don’t know it
    We hope she gets indicted, we would be excited, hey-hey

    (Levi and Bristol’s verse)
    Oh,
    Holy Mother, we’re so much in love
    And Sarah Palin blames the Lord above
    We are not gay and we are both white
    So we don’t understand why she says its not right, hey-hey

    (Chorus)
    Reunited, this time it’s for good
    Reunited, we’re misunderstood
    We’re a perfect fit, but Sarah she don’t know it
    The world is so excited cuz we’re reunited, hey-hey

    • nswfm says:

      Wow, the imagery of Rush in the background—I need to go buy a gallon of bleach!

      Good work on both songs, lynnrockets.

    • Wolf Pack says:

      I thought you were going to link to Muskrat Love. What were you thinking?

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wv-Yx-vZCGE

    • Whoever wrote that is gifted….truly..! Thank you..I read (sang!) it to my husband…what fun!….and I actually do believe in the power of love! I’m glad for them.

      • Martha Unalaska Yard Sign says:

        If you think that one was good (which it was!) then you ought to check out all of the others at Lynnrockets’ blog (I heart the Mudflats – there is a link on the sidebar). Lynnrockets single handedly did a lot of us in from laughter way back when she/he first showed up in the comments. I am flat amazed at the speed at which this poster can come up with the perfect parody of words to a tune!

  42. B in Co says:

    Wedding registry anyone?
    http://www.walmart.com/giftregistry/gr_detail.do?registry_id=80501960047

    This is way too much fun!

  43. B in Co says:

    Wedding registry anyone?
    http://www.walmart.com/giftregistry/gr_detail.do?registry_id=80501960047

    This is way too much fun!

  44. This stupid story was on my local news today. I will be writing to the station manager. I don’t need my local news station to brief me on this tabloid fodder. I could not care one iota less what Bristol Palin is doing. She’s not the one trying to ruin my country.

    • Here was my tweet on the twitter: Media covers Bristol/Levi ad nauseum. Media ignores PALIN GUILTY OF MAJOR ETHICS VIOLATION. WTF? #sarahpalinusa #media

      • mag the mick says:

        Yeah, R’ipley – I think it’s a stupid story too, and am a little disheartened to see all the speculation and commentary on it in this blog. Other than feeling sorry for both of them, I really don’t give a rap about their marriage, their reproductive status, etc. Whatever they’re up to, it won’t affect Palin’s political chances whatsoever. Meanwhile, Palin and her associates are trying their best to ruin our country. Let’s stop focusing so much on the gossip and get back to looking at what the Teabaggers are up to.

        • trisha08 says:

          The reason it’s relevant is because it shows that Palin is tying up loose ends before she announces her run for President. She is creating the perfect little family to secure the vote of the Religious Right and anti-choice crowd. She is also making sure that Levi never comes forth with the truth. Palin just took care of several problems at the same time.

          If Bristol is pregnant and if Palin brokered this deal…………it IS important to expose the fraud.

          I don’t feel sorry for them either. It’s obvious they are getting paid to pose for US Magazine, Palin probably bought them the condo, and they, I am sure, getting other “perks” for their cooperation. Besides, they made a choice make this a public story and take the money. Why would I feel sorry for them?

          Also, I smell a reality TV show coming.

  45. This stupid story was on my local news today. I will be writing to the station manager. I don’t need my local news station to brief me on this tabloid fodder. I could not care one iota less what Bristol Palin is doing. She’s not the one trying to ruin my country.

    • Here was my tweet on the twitter: Media covers Bristol/Levi ad nauseum. Media ignores PALIN GUILTY OF MAJOR ETHICS VIOLATION. WTF? #sarahpalinusa #media

      • mag the mick says:

        Yeah, R’ipley – I think it’s a stupid story too, and am a little disheartened to see all the speculation and commentary on it in this blog. Other than feeling sorry for both of them, I really don’t give a rap about their marriage, their reproductive status, etc. Whatever they’re up to, it won’t affect Palin’s political chances whatsoever. Meanwhile, Palin and her associates are trying their best to ruin our country. Let’s stop focusing so much on the gossip and get back to looking at what the Teabaggers are up to.

  46. Martha Unalaska Yard Sign says:

    I don’t believe for one moment that if Mini Me is pregnant, that it’s Levi’s. He’s just a sweet guy, who once again makes a great scapegoat. It is so unusual for me to even think about, much less care, about who is doing what to who behind closed doors. No matter who they are! But Bristol and Sarah – no way, no how is this legitimate and I find myself angry on behalf of the little guy (the one that’s fully his own human self).

    • Elizabeth says:

      I think Levi is a lot like Todd. How many of Sarah’s kids are also Todd’s?

    • BMA says:

      I agree with you 100%. (Tripp must look like the milkman because he certainly doesn’t look like Levi.) This new bun in the oven has a greater chance of being Voldermort’s than Levi’s. Something tells me that Levi just hit the jackpot. Sarah, of course, knew all about the engagement. I’m sure his bank account must have been sweetened to cover for yet another illegitimate child by lord knows who. Plus, this way Levi will keep his trap shut.

  47. Martha Unalaska Yard Sign says:

    I don’t believe for one moment that if Mini Me is pregnant, that it’s Levi’s. He’s just a sweet guy, who once again makes a great scapegoat. It is so unusual for me to even think about, much less care, about who is doing what to who behind closed doors. No matter who they are! But Bristol and Sarah – no way, no how is this legitimate and I find myself angry on behalf of the little guy (the one that’s fully his own human self).

    • Elizabeth says:

      I think Levi is a lot like Todd. How many of Sarah’s kids are also Todd’s?

    • BMA says:

      I agree with you 100%. (Tripp must look like the milkman because he certainly doesn’t look like Levi.) This new bun in the oven has a greater chance of being Voldermort’s than Levi’s. Something tells me that Levi just hit the jackpot. Sarah, of course, knew all about the engagement. I’m sure his bank account must have been sweetened to cover for yet another illegitimate child by lord knows who. Plus, this way Levi will keep his trap shut.

  48. AC says:

    From Levi’s perspective it’s easier to hop on the money train than to pay child support.

    Plus she’s preggers with someone else’s child, so there will likely be hush money coming from ‘Mama Garbage Bear’!

  49. AC says:

    From Levi’s perspective it’s easier to hop on the money train than to pay child support.

    Plus she’s preggers with someone else’s child, so there will likely be hush money coming from ‘Mama Garbage Bear’!

  50. farawayeyes says:

    The sad thing is that this could be perfectly real, the two might really love each other and wish to make a life together; or it could be an orchestrated scam from break-up to holy wedded bliss. The whole Palin ‘look at me’ thingy makes either version perfectly plausible. Has reality ever been so subjective?

    • Martha Unalaska Yard Sign says:

      Bristol would have to denounce her mother, and spend years in therapy, to even begin to know the meaning of love. Ain’t gonna happen!

    • omomma says:

      Wow. This is the best comment ever. Either version is perfectly plausible. Even if she’s pregnant.

  51. farawayeyes says:

    The sad thing is that this could be perfectly real, the two might really love each other and wish to make a life together; or it could be an orchestrated scam from break-up to holy wedded bliss. The whole Palin ‘look at me’ thingy makes either version perfectly plausible. Has reality ever been so subjective?

    • Martha Unalaska Yard Sign says:

      Bristol would have to denounce her mother, and spend years in therapy, to even begin to know the meaning of love. Ain’t gonna happen!

    • omomma says:

      Wow. This is the best comment ever. Either version is perfectly plausible. Even if she’s pregnant.

  52. Martha Unalaska Yard Sign says:

    I don’t believe a word of it – not a word from Bristol or Sarah’s lying mouths. Bristol is Sarah’s mini me, and there’s no way they really sprang this on Twit Mommy Dearest. Longevity? Nope. Integrity? Nope. Love? Bristol hasn’t practiced that any more than abstinence so if that is involved, it’s one sided to say the least.

    Now, I have to go wash my mouth out with soap because I have nothing nice to say about this mess. I feel sorry for the Johnston family. The only good to come out of this will be that Levi will eventually get a lot more visiting in with his son after they are divorced. And one tiny amount of chuckling on my part that Sarah has to actually try to be nice to the Johnston family just to keep them quiet!

  53. Martha Unalaska Yard Sign says:

    I don’t believe a word of it – not a word from Bristol or Sarah’s lying mouths. Bristol is Sarah’s mini me, and there’s no way they really sprang this on Twit Mommy Dearest. Longevity? Nope. Integrity? Nope. Love? Bristol hasn’t practiced that any more than abstinence so if that is involved, it’s one sided to say the least.

    Now, I have to go wash my mouth out with soap because I have nothing nice to say about this mess. I feel sorry for the Johnston family. The only good to come out of this will be that Levi will eventually get a lot more visiting in with his son after they are divorced. And one tiny amount of chuckling on my part that Sarah has to actually try to be nice to the Johnston family just to keep them quiet!

  54. BigPete says:

    Exclusive: Bristol definitely knocked up!

    http://alaskawtf.com/2010/07/14/bristol-palin-pregnant/

  55. BigPete says:

    Exclusive: Bristol definitely knocked up!

    http://alaskawtf.com/2010/07/14/bristol-palin-pregnant/

  56. London Bridges says:

    Maybe Bristol is only faking a pregnancy to cover up for Willow. The family that fakes together rakes (cash cows) together.

  57. London Bridges says:

    Maybe Bristol is only faking a pregnancy to cover up for Willow. The family that fakes together rakes (cash cows) together.

  58. Kallie in Texas says:

    What a bunch of degenerates!

  59. Kallie in Texas says:

    What a bunch of degenerates!

  60. Lynnrockets says:

    Just a little fun. Please remember to click on the song link below to familiarize yourselves with the tune and to have more fun singing along with today’s topical song parody.

    Love And Marriage song link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwoRMAC461A

    LEVI’S MARRIAGE

    (sung to the Frank Sinatra song “Love And Marriage”)

    Bristol’s marriage, Bristol’s marriage
    Bristol, Levi and the baby carriage
    Did she tell her mother
    Levi’s once again her lover

    Levi’s marriage, Levi’s marriage
    The two of them have a lot of baggage
    Both their heads are empty
    They only went to elementary

    Try, try, try to educate them
    Lost in confusion
    My, oh my, they are so very dumb
    That’s my conclusion

    Bristol’s marriage, Levi’s marriage
    Before they wed they’ll have a lot of shaggage
    Bristol and her mother
    Are all but done, there’s no more fun
    The two are done with one another

    (instrumental break)

    Why, why were they copulatin’?
    Was it collusion?
    Did they try to make Bristol a mom,
    Through sexy fusion?

    Bristol’s marriage, Levi’s marriage
    Before they wed they’ll have a lot of shaggage
    Bristol and her mother
    Are all but done, (are all but done)
    The two are done with one another

  61. Lynnrockets says:

    Just a little fun. Please remember to click on the song link below to familiarize yourselves with the tune and to have more fun singing along with today’s topical song parody.

    Love And Marriage song link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwoRMAC461A

    LEVI’S MARRIAGE

    (sung to the Frank Sinatra song “Love And Marriage”)

    Bristol’s marriage, Bristol’s marriage
    Bristol, Levi and the baby carriage
    Did she tell her mother
    Levi’s once again her lover

    Levi’s marriage, Levi’s marriage
    The two of them have a lot of baggage
    Both their heads are empty
    They only went to elementary

    Try, try, try to educate them
    Lost in confusion
    My, oh my, they are so very dumb
    That’s my conclusion

    Bristol’s marriage, Levi’s marriage
    Before they wed they’ll have a lot of shaggage
    Bristol and her mother
    Are all but done, there’s no more fun
    The two are done with one another

    (instrumental break)

    Why, why were they copulatin’?
    Was it collusion?
    Did they try to make Bristol a mom,
    Through sexy fusion?

    Bristol’s marriage, Levi’s marriage
    Before they wed they’ll have a lot of shaggage
    Bristol and her mother
    Are all but done, (are all but done)
    The two are done with one another

  62. Alaska Cruiser says:

    Re: DS55, “I will expect a new Trap, Trick or Treat around February of 2011, a preemie of course”
    The exact birthdate has already been picked out – February 6, 2011.

    • zyggy says:

      I picked Feb 1. =)

      • InJuneau says:

        I believe Feb. 6 is Raygun’s b-day, when it it surmised that Sowa will announce, at the RR library or some such place, her run for the WH in 2012.

        • leenie17 says:

          That would absolutely send SP over the edge…to lose the spotlight on her big announcement because of the birth of another Johnston kid. She’d insist that Bristol squeeze those legs together until after midnight.

  63. Alaska Cruiser says:

    Re: DS55, “I will expect a new Trap, Trick or Treat around February of 2011, a preemie of course”
    The exact birthdate has already been picked out – February 6, 2011.

    • zyggy says:

      I picked Feb 1. =)

      • InJuneau says:

        I believe Feb. 6 is Raygun’s b-day, when it it surmised that Sowa will announce, at the RR library or some such place, her run for the WH in 2012.

  64. Blue Idaho says:

    Hmmmmmmmmmmmm Sounds like a great Jerry Springer show. Is he still on the air?

  65. Blue Idaho says:

    Hmmmmmmmmmmmm Sounds like a great Jerry Springer show. Is he still on the air?

  66. Punkinbugg says:

    When is Sarah Palin going to realize that a quiet, tasteful press release to announce her daughter’s engagement would have been preferable (dare I say Presidential) to the “splash o’ trash” that we’ve witnessed today? And yes, she knew about it. She just “made that stuff up” for dramatic effect, and it worked! And she got PAID to do it.

    WOWWW CBS Evening News just ran the Bristol/Levi story and did NOT mention that this was supposedly done behind SP’s back. (Like every other “journalist” did today.) Sounds like they have done a little fact-checking! Bravo, CBS!

  67. Punkinbugg says:

    When is Sarah Palin going to realize that a quiet, tasteful press release to announce her daughter’s engagement would have been preferable (dare I say Presidential) to the “splash o’ trash” that we’ve witnessed today? And yes, she knew about it. She just “made that stuff up” for dramatic effect, and it worked! And she got PAID to do it.

    WOWWW CBS Evening News just ran the Bristol/Levi story and did NOT mention that this was supposedly done behind SP’s back. (Like every other “journalist” did today.) Sounds like they have done a little fact-checking! Bravo, CBS!

  68. Jane in NC says:

    You can’t make this stuff up?

    I beg to differ. All three have handlers, and agents, and lawyers. Tabloid interviewers ask leading questions, get sellable answers, publish provocative photo(shopped?) images. Money changes hands. The wealth spreads.

    People, we are all Us now.

  69. Jane in NC says:

    You can’t make this stuff up?

    I beg to differ. All three have handlers, and agents, and lawyers. Tabloid interviewers ask leading questions, get sellable answers, publish provocative photo(shopped?) images. Money changes hands. The wealth spreads.

    People, we are all Us now.

  70. Nebraska Native says:

    I totally believe Scarah knew about this and orchestrated it… that’s why the Levi apology 2 weeks ago. And I totally believe we will be celebrating the birth of an 8 # preemie in about 6-7 months. And I am just not sure who the happy father is, but then that’s just me. It’s terribly humid and hot here in the heartland and maybe my old brains are addled… These people make me sick.

  71. Nebraska Native says:

    I totally believe Scarah knew about this and orchestrated it… that’s why the Levi apology 2 weeks ago. And I totally believe we will be celebrating the birth of an 8 # preemie in about 6-7 months. And I am just not sure who the happy father is, but then that’s just me. It’s terribly humid and hot here in the heartland and maybe my old brains are addled… These people make me sick.

  72. Rationalist says:

    I agree with Honestyingov that there is no way Sarah didn’t know about this. It’s calculated to engender sympathy for Sarah, and to make Bristol appear more independent than she is.

    I will give her this – she keeps an amazingly tight rein on her family and Levi. The secrets they could tell and don’t. Bristol seems to have completed the body snatching process and become a pod, but can Sarah successfully keep Track, Willow and Piper silent forever?

    • nswfm says:

      Someone asked if this was all a diversionary tactic to hide something Willow might have done–wouldn’t put it past the puppeteers.

      • Elizabeth says:

        I think that Bristol is pregnant, probably not by Levi, and this is the diversionary tactic for that.

        • nswfm says:

          Who knows, maybe W:llow AND Br:stol are both pregnant. The middle sister followed the older one into that baking in gowns Harper’s Bizzzare photo shoot, so she’s getting quite the education.

          • bronislawa blumschaefter says:

            I prefer to leave Willow out of it. She’s an underaged kid from a messed up family, who didn’t bring any of this on herself. Bristol had a tough time, but she is an a legal adult who has continued to make shady, hypocritical choices and sell them to the media.

    • seattlefan says:

      I agree also. This whole thing feels so orchestrated, including the fact that she is conveniently out “Hiking the Alaskan Trail” to Sweettooth, or wherever she is hiding.

  73. Rationalist says:

    I agree with Honestyingov that there is no way Sarah didn’t know about this. It’s calculated to engender sympathy for Sarah, and to make Bristol appear more independent than she is.

    I will give her this – she keeps an amazingly tight rein on her family and Levi. The secrets they could tell and don’t. Bristol seems to have completed the body snatching process and become a pod, but can Sarah successfully keep Track, Willow and Piper silent forever?

    • nswfm says:

      Someone asked if this was all a diversionary tactic to hide something Willow might have done–wouldn’t put it past the puppeteers.

      • Elizabeth says:

        I think that Bristol is pregnant, probably not by Levi, and this is the diversionary tactic for that.

    • seattlefan says:

      I agree also. This whole thing feels so orchestrated, including the fact that she is conveniently out “Hiking the Alaskan Trail” to Sweettooth, or wherever she is hiding.

  74. Diane says:

    It is too bad palin did not take the time and energy that she is giving to the teabaggers and spend her time with her kids.
    I can’t imagine leaving an unwed teenage daughter the first year she is struggling to raise a child, for weeks and months at a time. Or a handicapped child. Or a teenager who has gotten in trouble with the law. Or a 9 year old.
    All to make money. It is not like she is the best and the brightest hope for our country.

    • ks sunflower says:

      Exactly. Sarah is not a good mother. No one has to look very hard to find evidence of that and yet her followers refuse to accept it. Says a lot about them as well.

  75. Diane says:

    It is too bad palin did not take the time and energy that she is giving to the teabaggers and spend her time with her kids.
    I can’t imagine leaving an unwed teenage daughter the first year she is struggling to raise a child, for weeks and months at a time. Or a handicapped child. Or a teenager who has gotten in trouble with the law. Or a 9 year old.
    All to make money. It is not like she is the best and the brightest hope for our country.

    • ks sunflower says:

      Exactly. Sarah is not a good mother. No one has to look very hard to find evidence of that and yet her followers refuse to accept it. Says a lot about them as well.

  76. Maria says:

    My take on this…

    Bristol admits to her mother that she is preggers again… and Ben is the father (but probably does not know this). Sarah grits her tooth veneers and comes up with the perfect solution. She advises Bristol to be nice to Ricky Hollywood. Levi falls for her charms again and once reeled in, Bristol breaks her ‘vow of abstinence’ with Levi (oops) and within a few weeks tearfully tells Levi that he has impregnated her yet again!

    Levi steps up to the plate, and is persuaded to admit to his ‘lies’ about Sarah and to deliver an ultimatum to Mercede, in exchange for restoration as a future son-in-law.

    So now the happy couple are expecting Slipp (or Skidd or whatever) and Sarah has tied up some loose ends… except for Mercede, of course.

    Thankfully, Mercede will NOT be intimidated by the Palins. She’s working on a new post about this issue for release tomorrow. Go Sadie!

    • ks sunflower says:

      Gryphen said that Sherry, his mother, wasn’t told about the engagement even though Levi supposedly showed up to have his mother cut his fair before the photo shoot for US magazine. If true, Levi has a lot of growing up to do. Babies raising babies. Sigh.

    • bubbles says:

      i really wish Mercede would not write anything at all about this. she and her mother are at risk here.
      for real. Mercede, in my opinion is too naive and too young to be involving herself in this nonsense.
      she needs to go to school. she needs to learn to write if she wants to be a writer. Mercede and Sherry need to keep quiet and tend to their own concerns. her brother has moved on and has shown nothing but disrespect to her and her mother. unless we who visit her blog are prepared to support her by clicking on that donate button every day then we need to understand that this young woman and her disabled mom have to live there,in Wasilla. now unless this is all bull and (i am a cynical New Yorker) Mercede and Sherry are playing us for idiots and are in fact part of the Wasilla distraction machine we need to encourage her to go on with her life and leave crazy alone.

  77. Maria says:

    My take on this…

    Bristol admits to her mother that she is preggers again… and Ben is the father (but probably does not know this). Sarah grits her tooth veneers and comes up with the perfect solution. She advises Bristol to be nice to Ricky Hollywood. Levi falls for her charms again and once reeled in, Bristol breaks her ‘vow of abstinence’ with Levi (oops) and within a few weeks tearfully tells Levi that he has impregnated her yet again!

    Levi steps up to the plate, and is persuaded to admit to his ‘lies’ about Sarah and to deliver an ultimatum to Mercede, in exchange for restoration as a future son-in-law.

    So now the happy couple are expecting Slipp (or Skidd or whatever) and Sarah has tied up some loose ends… except for Mercede, of course.

    Thankfully, Mercede will NOT be intimidated by the Palins. She’s working on a new post about this issue for release tomorrow. Go Sadie!

    • ks sunflower says:

      Gryphen said that Sherry, his mother, wasn’t told about the engagement even though Levi supposedly showed up to have his mother cut his fair before the photo shoot for US magazine. If true, Levi has a lot of growing up to do. Babies raising babies. Sigh.

    • bubbles says:

      i really wish Mercede would not write anything at all about this. she and her mother are at risk here.
      for real. Mercede, in my opinion is too naive and too young to be involving herself in this nonsense.
      she needs to go to school. she needs to learn to write if she wants to be a writer. Mercede and Sherry need to keep quiet and tend to their own concerns. her brother has moved on and has shown nothing but disrespect to her and her mother. unless we who visit her blog are prepared to support her by clicking on that donate button every day then we need to understand that this young woman and her disabled mom have to live there,in Wasilla. now unless this is all bull and (i am a cynical New Yorker) Mercede and Sherry are playing us for idiots and are in fact part of the Wasilla distraction machine we need to encourage her to go on with her life and leave crazy alone.

  78. ds55 says:

    Hooray! I think they should have been together all along. It’s the best thing for little Tripp to have both his folks under one roof, raising him together.

    Just a couple of things… I think Sarah knew about this already. I think Sarah will make a big fake display of forgiveness over it. And I think Bristol is pregnant. I will expect a new Trap, Trick or Treat around February of 2011, a preemie of course ::cough::cough::.

    • aussiegal77 says:

      Yeah Sarah doesn’t miss an opportunity to exploit her children. And I am 80% certain that this means Bristol is preggers again. Maybe they will name this one John or Jane – you know, to be exotic etc.

      • ks sunflower says:

        “Maybe they will name his one John or Jane – you know, to be exotic, etc.”

        Loved that! Still giggling. To those folks, normal would be exotic.

        Over at IM, Gryphen is suggesting the name “Trap.”

    • Kat says:

      Newest member – Troopp or Trooppina if it’s a girl.

  79. ds55 says:

    Hooray! I think they should have been together all along. It’s the best thing for little Tripp to have both his folks under one roof, raising him together.

    Just a couple of things… I think Sarah knew about this already. I think Sarah will make a big fake display of forgiveness over it. And I think Bristol is pregnant. I will expect a new Trap, Trick or Treat around February of 2011, a preemie of course ::cough::cough::.

    • aussiegal77 says:

      Yeah Sarah doesn’t miss an opportunity to exploit her children. And I am 80% certain that this means Bristol is preggers again. Maybe they will name this one John or Jane – you know, to be exotic etc.

      • ks sunflower says:

        “Maybe they will name his one John or Jane – you know, to be exotic, etc.”

        Loved that! Still giggling. To those folks, normal would be exotic.

        Over at IM, Gryphen is suggesting the name “Trap.”

  80. B in Co says:

    O.T. I just called my son’s high school to talk to his Assistant Principal, turns out he is now the Principal in Fairbanks, Alaska. I don’t know how many high schools you all have in Fairbanks but some school is very lucky ( and I am very sad!)

  81. B in Co says:

    O.T. I just called my son’s high school to talk to his Assistant Principal, turns out he is now the Principal in Fairbanks, Alaska. I don’t know how many high schools you all have in Fairbanks but some school is very lucky ( and I am very sad!)

  82. aussiegal77 says:

    There is a term of this: shot gun wedding.

    =D

    No, really, I wish them the best and I especially wish their young family can be away from the Palin compound and maybe they will have a half a chance to move on together. I hope Levi lifts the speaking ban with his family, that is just wrong.

    As for Palin – yeah, I am betting dollars to peanuts she did know about this. No-one pees in that compound without Sarah’s say so.

    Tune in next week for the next episode in The Days of Our Lies…..er…..Lives of Wasilla!

    • jojobo1 says:

      I just read Mercedes blog and Levi is so wrong to say and do what he did..You GF wife should not determine when and certainly not if they talk to their family.Seems Bristol is being real nasty.I hope for all their sakes Both Levi and Bristol grow up and stop with the threats. I am sure that family has had enough threats to last them a lifetime.When someone does not feel safe in their own hope or about their own property it is going way to far and Bristol and Levi should both put a stop to the harassment of his sister.Is this not a free country ?

  83. aussiegal77 says:

    There is a term of this: shot gun wedding.

    =D

    No, really, I wish them the best and I especially wish their young family can be away from the Palin compound and maybe they will have a half a chance to move on together. I hope Levi lifts the speaking ban with his family, that is just wrong.

    As for Palin – yeah, I am betting dollars to peanuts she did know about this. No-one pees in that compound without Sarah’s say so.

    Tune in next week for the next episode in The Days of Our Lies…..er…..Lives of Wasilla!

    • jojobo1 says:

      I just read Mercedes blog and Levi is so wrong to say and do what he did..You GF wife should not determine when and certainly not if they talk to their family.Seems Bristol is being real nasty.I hope for all their sakes Both Levi and Bristol grow up and stop with the threats. I am sure that family has had enough threats to last them a lifetime.When someone does not feel safe in their own hope or about their own property it is going way to far and Bristol and Levi should both put a stop to the harassment of his sister.Is this not a free country ?

  84. daisydem says:

    With this wonderful post, I log off and go to bed. Still in the UK now … Scotland. In Perthshire, Dunkeld. I am actually on the precipice of what was the Birnam Woods (from Shakespeare’s MacBeth). Hubby and I walked down the Birnam Path (immediately behind our hotel and found what they have deemed the last standing Birnam oak from Shakespeare’s time. It is huge. And further, and OT, Beatrix Potter lived, and wrote here and across the street is a park in her honor. We planned none of this … we ended up here as the closest accomodations we found for hubby and son to be able to attend two days of the Open (the British Open).

    • B in Co says:

      What a great trip!

    • bubbles says:

      wow!! enjoy every bit of your trip.

    • Irishgirl says:

      And I got a feckin’ infection and couldn’t meet you.. So sorry Daisydem…..I have had a rotten few weeks.

      I’m glad you are enjoying Europe.

      • bubbles says:

        hope you are feeling better Irish.

      • MonaLisa (inCT) says:

        I hope you’re feeling better, too! 🙁

      • jojobo1 says:

        Jees I know a (sort of know)PI who is over there with his sons and is really not enjoying his European trip.Only once did he have something good to say.I mentioned I had talked!!! with people that had gone over and they had good times.But than he is used to great service and in some cases he did not get it.Hotels Airports trains ect. He just got back and he just said thank God. LOL

        • benlomond2 says:

          Europe is great !! Going back in October!! but I guess that guy just has problems with all those foreigners who live there !!! heheheheh!!

          • jojobo1 says:

            Na I think it was the Matt’s they gave them to sleep on at an airport after not getting in on time,instead o a hotel room and squeezing three people into a very small area and he is not a small person,Not enough hot water. He liked the people fine it was the service he did not like.

    • TX Me says:

      My favorite village in that area is Pitlochry — if you can, make the trip. If you can make it all the way up to Aberdeen, there is so much in Aberdeenshire to see & do.

      I am so jealous! Did you know that the BO has options for children to get lessons during the Open? They have to be at least 3 yrs old (our daughter missed it by months before we moved). I can’t wait to move back & try again!

      Enjoy your time in Scotland, you lucky girl!

      • daisydem says:

        Thank you TX Me. I am enjoying it … only a little sight-seeing however, it has been a long trip and I was ready for down time. Hubby and son are off to the Open today, I am chilling at a wonderful hotel (just had some awesome curried carrot and parsnip soup) and we leave for home tomorrow. I love the River Tay and Dunkeld.

  85. daisydem says:

    With this wonderful post, I log off and go to bed. Still in the UK now … Scotland. In Perthshire, Dunkeld. I am actually on the precipice of what was the Birnam Woods (from Shakespeare’s MacBeth). Hubby and I walked down the Birnam Path (immediately behind our hotel and found what they have deemed the last standing Birnam oak from Shakespeare’s time. It is huge. And further, and OT, Beatrix Potter lived, and wrote here and across the street is a park in her honor. We planned none of this … we ended up here as the closest accomodations we found for hubby and son to be able to attend two days of the Open (the British Open).

    • B in Co says:

      What a great trip!

    • bubbles says:

      wow!! enjoy every bit of your trip.

    • Irishgirl says:

      And I got a feckin’ infection and couldn’t meet you.. So sorry Daisydem…..I have had a rotten few weeks.

      I’m glad you are enjoying Europe.

      • bubbles says:

        hope you are feeling better Irish.

      • MonaLisa (inCT) says:

        I hope you’re feeling better, too! 🙁

      • jojobo1 says:

        Jees I know a (sort of know)PI who is over there with his sons and is really not enjoying his European trip.Only once did he have something good to say.I mentioned I had talked!!! with people that had gone over and they had good times.But than he is used to great service and in some cases he did not get it.Hotels Airports trains ect. He just got back and he just said thank God. LOL

        • benlomond2 says:

          Europe is great !! Going back in October!! but I guess that guy just has problems with all those foreigners who live there !!! heheheheh!!

    • TX Me says:

      My favorite village in that area is Pitlochry — if you can, make the trip. If you can make it all the way up to Aberdeen, there is so much in Aberdeenshire to see & do.

      I am so jealous! Did you know that the BO has options for children to get lessons during the Open? They have to be at least 3 yrs old (our daughter missed it by months before we moved). I can’t wait to move back & try again!

      Enjoy your time in Scotland, you lucky girl!

  86. Enjay in E MT says:

    I wish them both lots of luck –
    (Especially with former half gov in the family)

  87. Enjay in E MT says:

    I wish them both lots of luck –
    (Especially with former half gov in the family)

  88. Mac says:

    I wish them all the best and am glad that super adorable Tripp will have both parents around. That said, my take is this:
    1. She’s pregnant.
    2. Sowa knew before it was published in US magazine.
    3. Sowa is happy to bring Levi into the fold prior to her bid for 2012.

  89. Mac says:

    I wish them all the best and am glad that super adorable Tripp will have both parents around. That said, my take is this:
    1. She’s pregnant.
    2. Sowa knew before it was published in US magazine.
    3. Sowa is happy to bring Levi into the fold prior to her bid for 2012.

  90. honestyinGov says:

    That line about Terror S’error not knowing is pure moose pucky.

    Does ANYONE think that the Us Weekly lawyers would negotiate a Photo-contract agreement with these 2 Teenagers….? NOT A CHANCE!! Bristles Lawyer Fleabag worked on the deal of course.

    And you think Fleabag would dare not tell Ca$H Cow Sarah what he was doing for them.
    That’s his gravy train money… of course he told her.

  91. honestyinGov says:

    That line about Terror S’error not knowing is pure moose pucky.

    Does ANYONE think that the Us Weekly lawyers would negotiate a Photo-contract agreement with these 2 Teenagers….? NOT A CHANCE!! Bristles Lawyer Fleabag worked on the deal of course.

    And you think Fleabag would dare not tell Ca$H Cow Sarah what he was doing for them.
    That’s his gravy train money… of course he told her.

  92. daisydem says:

    No one says it better. No wait .. no one .. no wait .. Thanks AKM.

  93. daisydem says:

    No one says it better. No wait .. no one .. no wait .. Thanks AKM.

  94. jimzmum says:

    I just don’t care anymore. I know that maybe this will be another chink in Mrs. Palin’s armor, but sheesh. I don’t watch soap operas for a reason.

    I am going to do a Scarlett and maybe think about that tomorrow.

  95. jimzmum says:

    I just don’t care anymore. I know that maybe this will be another chink in Mrs. Palin’s armor, but sheesh. I don’t watch soap operas for a reason.

    I am going to do a Scarlett and maybe think about that tomorrow.

  96. bubbles says:

    yes. they do. it is a shame what some mothers do. not only do they affect their own children but their intransigence can and does affect the future for themselves.
    when the old bags get old and ugly and nobody wants to be around them,that’s when they find out what ‘lonely’ truly means. no invites for Thanksgiving dinners. no invites for special occasions . no visits when they are ill. no phone calls just to say “hi mom. how you doing today?” “we love you mama.” or ” “hey mommy. we been missing you and want to see you. can you fly out to visit us?”
    can you tell i love my daughter and my SIL? i speak softly and carry my big stick.not to hurt but to nudge them in the direction i want them to go. i wish them well. i wish them joy and i wish them love.

  97. bubbles says:

    yes. they do. it is a shame what some mothers do. not only do they affect their own children but their intransigence can and does affect the future for themselves.
    when the old bags get old and ugly and nobody wants to be around them,that’s when they find out what ‘lonely’ truly means. no invites for Thanksgiving dinners. no invites for special occasions . no visits when they are ill. no phone calls just to say “hi mom. how you doing today?” “we love you mama.” or ” “hey mommy. we been missing you and want to see you. can you fly out to visit us?”
    can you tell i love my daughter and my SIL? i speak softly and carry my big stick.not to hurt but to nudge them in the direction i want them to go. i wish them well. i wish them joy and i wish them love.

  98. krbmjb05 says:

    Bristol…what’s the HURRY? You should take your time, make sure that rascal Levi “do as he say”! 6 weeks? Why not give it 6 months? Hmmmmm….HMMMMMM???

    • bronislawa blumschaefter says:

      OK, so if they get married in September, and she has a baby next March or so, is she going to stop pimping that abstinence crap, or will the religious right find some way to spin her experience as “the exception that proves the rule”?

  99. krbmjb05 says:

    Bristol…what’s the HURRY? You should take your time, make sure that rascal Levi “do as he say”! 6 weeks? Why not give it 6 months? Hmmmmm….HMMMMMM???

  100. Midnight Cajun says:

    Not buying a word of it. I think the whole thing was hatched by Sarah. No way the magazine set up the shoot without running it past Sarah, first. No way a daughter afraid of her mom pulls this kind of stunt without her mom’s approval. It’s all orchestrated drama.

    One really has to wonder if Levi wasn’t playing Sarah’s game all along. He has certainly helped to keep the Palins in the news, which is what Sarah wants more than anything. Plus he helped deepen the sympathy the Bots feel for their “poor” idol. Now we have the whole, Aw, ain’t it sweet, happily ever after ending, just in time to quiet the rumors about why Bristol is looking a bit heavy these days.

  101. Midnight Cajun says:

    Not buying a word of it. I think the whole thing was hatched by Sarah. No way the magazine set up the shoot without running it past Sarah, first. No way a daughter afraid of her mom pulls this kind of stunt without her mom’s approval. It’s all orchestrated drama.

    One really has to wonder if Levi wasn’t playing Sarah’s game all along. He has certainly helped to keep the Palins in the news, which is what Sarah wants more than anything. Plus he helped deepen the sympathy the Bots feel for their “poor” idol. Now we have the whole, Aw, ain’t it sweet, happily ever after ending, just in time to quiet the rumors about why Bristol is looking a bit heavy these days.

  102. merrycricket says:

    Scarah is having a really bad week. There is so much stuff going on to tick her off, I’m just waiting for her to lose it. Wonder how much more it will take to push her over the edge? Hope BOR has her back on the show to ask her about the incendiary billboard her tea bagger bed buddies paid for and how that isn’t devsive compared to the NAACP’s charge of racism. Then maybe the MSM could ask President Obama what her thinks about the tea baggers and Scarah’s angry missives so he can diss her again. That should just about do it.

  103. merrycricket says:

    Scarah is having a really bad week. There is so much stuff going on to tick her off, I’m just waiting for her to lose it. Wonder how much more it will take to push her over the edge? Hope BOR has her back on the show to ask her about the incendiary billboard her tea bagger bed buddies paid for and how that isn’t devsive compared to the NAACP’s charge of racism. Then maybe the MSM could ask President Obama what her thinks about the tea baggers and Scarah’s angry missives so he can diss her again. That should just about do it.

  104. B in Co says:

    Heard on CNN that Bristol wants Levi to wear camoflauge at the wedding. Don’t mean to be a snob but in what world is this appropriate? What are they going to do have a moose shoot between the vows and the first dance?
    I wonder which bump-it, leather jacket, black bra and 5 inch stilleto’s the Mother of the Bride will wear. Should be a real fashion extravaganza!

    • OMG says:

      Could it be camouflage to protect him from certain hunters?

    • Blue Idaho says:

      They just may be on ‘ My Big Fat Redneck Wedding’,

    • Sourdough Mullet says:

      Oh my God. I was going to start speculating (jokingly) about the details of this redneck wedding …er, I mean “joyous occasion”. I was envisioning the romantic wedding reception that would undoubtedly be held at the Mug-Shot Saloon, a procession of cars with loud mufflers parading through Wasilla, led by Levi and Bristol’s 4-wheeler, replete w/ shaving cream and tin cans, etc.
      But honestly, I wouldn’t have even come up w/ the camo idea in jest. Was this a SERIOUS statement by Bristol, or a joke?? I guess I could offer to loan Bristol the Duct Tape gown that I made for Anchorage’s Miners and Trappers Costume Ball years ago. I went as a “Miss Alaska” contestant from Wasilla. How ironic….

      • B in Co says:

        The camo must have been from one of the interviews Bristol gave. CNN reported it and said something about little Trip maybe wearing a camo vest too! Classy group these Palins.
        Wonder whose going to pay for the keg and beer pong table for the reception? Oh that’s right they aren’t even old enough to drink, unbelievable!

        • nswfm says:

          There goes the C4P Fantasy of having the Wasillabilly wedding on the White House lawn.

          On NPR today, Bob Mondello reviewed a bunch of family sagas out from Hollywood this summer. I guess the Palins didn’t want to be left out.

      • BS says:

        The reception will probably be held at the Mug Shot. They LOVE Sarah there. I can not believe the ridiculousness of this whole thing. Who the F cares? I am so sick of this Palin sh!t!

    • leu2500 says:

      One of the Hutaree members (militia in MI arrested on charges of sedition) wore camo to his wedding. So with the Palin’s AIP connections, seems like they’d be following a trend.

  105. B in Co says:

    Heard on CNN that Bristol wants Levi to wear camoflauge at the wedding. Don’t mean to be a snob but in what world is this appropriate? What are they going to do have a moose shoot between the vows and the first dance?
    I wonder which bump-it, leather jacket, black bra and 5 inch stilleto’s the Mother of the Bride will wear. Should be a real fashion extravaganza!

    • OMG says:

      Could it be camouflage to protect him from certain hunters?

    • Blue Idaho says:

      They just may be on ‘ My Big Fat Redneck Wedding’,

    • Sourdough Mullet says:

      Oh my God. I was going to start speculating (jokingly) about the details of this redneck wedding …er, I mean “joyous occasion”. I was envisioning the romantic wedding reception that would undoubtedly be held at the Mug-Shot Saloon, a procession of cars with loud mufflers parading through Wasilla, led by Levi and Bristol’s 4-wheeler, replete w/ shaving cream and tin cans, etc.
      But honestly, I wouldn’t have even come up w/ the camo idea in jest. Was this a SERIOUS statement by Bristol, or a joke?? I guess I could offer to loan Bristol the Duct Tape gown that I made for Anchorage’s Miners and Trappers Costume Ball years ago. I went as a “Miss Alaska” contestant from Wasilla. How ironic….

      • B in Co says:

        The camo must have been from one of the interviews Bristol gave. CNN reported it and said something about little Trip maybe wearing a camo vest too! Classy group these Palins.
        Wonder whose going to pay for the keg and beer pong table for the reception? Oh that’s right they aren’t even old enough to drink, unbelievable!

        • nswfm says:

          There goes the C4P Fantasy of having the Wasillabilly wedding on the White House lawn.

          On NPR today, Bob Mondello reviewed a bunch of family sagas out from Hollywood this summer. I guess the Palins didn’t want to be left out.

    • leu2500 says:

      One of the Hutaree members (militia in MI arrested on charges of sedition) wore camo to his wedding. So with the Palin’s AIP connections, seems like they’d be following a trend.

  106. TX Me says:

    Wonkette is unusually gentle with the lovers here. Perhaps the hilarity will come later:

    http://wonkette.com/416651/levi-and-bristol-announced-their-engagement-on-the-cover-of-us-magazine-obviously#more-416651

    • leenie17 says:

      My favorite comment:

      “Levi better watch out for any helicopters hovering above his head.”

  107. TX Me says:

    Wonkette is unusually gentle with the lovers here. Perhaps the hilarity will come later:

    http://wonkette.com/416651/levi-and-bristol-announced-their-engagement-on-the-cover-of-us-magazine-obviously#more-416651

    • leenie17 says:

      My favorite comment:

      “Levi better watch out for any helicopters hovering above his head.”

  108. avahome says:

    So Levi and Bristol did not even drop by and let Sherry know. Makes me wonder if Levi told his Dad.
    Bristol is gonna have to stand up to that Mama grizzley and let her know how the cow ate the cabbage.
    But I’ll just bet the money stream from Sarah has just dried up. Levi better be prepared to sign a pre-nup for sure.

    My mother did not like my husband. She made such a fuss at my wedding I left in tears and didn’t speak to her for 4 years. There’s a line mothers just do not cross but some gotta learn it the hard way.

    • Wolf Pack says:

      Sure right after she gets more money from Sarah’s various funds.

  109. avahome says:

    So Levi and Bristol did not even drop by and let Sherry know. Makes me wonder if Levi told his Dad.
    Bristol is gonna have to stand up to that Mama grizzley and let her know how the cow ate the cabbage.
    But I’ll just bet the money stream from Sarah has just dried up. Levi better be prepared to sign a pre-nup for sure.

    My mother did not like my husband. She made such a fuss at my wedding I left in tears and didn’t speak to her for 4 years. There’s a line mothers just do not cross but some gotta learn it the hard way.

    • Wolf Pack says:

      Sure right after she gets more money from Sarah’s various funds.

  110. jojobo1 says:

    I Have always wondered if the breakup wasn’t just another way to keep her name out there the palin name that is .The same goes for anything Levi did or did not do,it all kept Ms palin’s name out there and now this.I wish those two or should I say three because of the baby? all the best.Just remind both to watch their backs around Bristol’s mother.If Ms palin keep’s her nose out they just may have a good chance.

  111. jojobo1 says:

    I Have always wondered if the breakup wasn’t just another way to keep her name out there the palin name that is .The same goes for anything Levi did or did not do,it all kept Ms palin’s name out there and now this.I wish those two or should I say three because of the baby? all the best.Just remind both to watch their backs around Bristol’s mother.If Ms palin keep’s her nose out they just may have a good chance.

  112. TX Me says:

    Sometimes I have wondered if Bristol has some sort of passive-aggressive attitude toward her mother — it seems like she sets out to deliberately undermine her political aspirations.

    Not only does she make decisions that are contrary to SP’s b.s. line, and her own abstinence-only line, she also seems to be pulling a rogue/frankenstein thing of her own. McCain fostered the SP frankenstein monster, SP created the Bristol frankenstein monster.

    The statement by Bristol seems to be one that does not reflect well on SP, which would lead one to believe that this was really & truly done without SP’s approval. And did the response really fail to wish the couple much happiness? Wow.

    I would have to agree with those who are wondering if perhaps Bristol is pregnant again. And perhaps not even by Levi.

    Seems to me that the big money to be made by both Levi and Bristol is in a tell-all book. Maybe if they tick SP off beyond all possibility of forgiveness and redemption they can go ahead and write about Joan Crawford, I mean SP, and her wire hangers.

    • Lower48 says:

      Here’s another thought: Children learn what they live. And I’m quite sure that Bristol has had ample opportunity to observe momma “doing her thing” in public as well as in private. Oh, yeah – you betcha!

      Bristol knew once the announcement was made in the MSM that it couldn’t be taken back. Sowa would then have no choice. A public response would be expected almost immediately – and being such a family-values kinda gal, Sowa would be forced up against the proverbial wall into “accepting” their engagement… again.

    • Wolf Pack says:

      If you’re a liberal it doesn’t play well. But conservatives are authoritarians. They loved it even when Bush was dead wrong to stick to his position like a true father bully type. And of course Ronnie Raygun was wrong about most things but, acted like an as* so he was loved by conservatives.

    • bronislawa blumschaefter says:

      I think you’ve nailed it, TX Me. I would add that Bristol & Levi may be pushing the envelope, a bit at a time, in order to see how much $$ they can squeeze outta Mom by agreeing NOT to write a tell-all book. When that tap runs dry, they’ll start shopping the book(s), together or separately.

  113. TX Me says:

    Sometimes I have wondered if Bristol has some sort of passive-aggressive attitude toward her mother — it seems like she sets out to deliberately undermine her political aspirations.

    Not only does she make decisions that are contrary to SP’s b.s. line, and her own abstinence-only line, she also seems to be pulling a rogue/frankenstein thing of her own. McCain fostered the SP frankenstein monster, SP created the Bristol frankenstein monster.

    The statement by Bristol seems to be one that does not reflect well on SP, which would lead one to believe that this was really & truly done without SP’s approval. And did the response really fail to wish the couple much happiness? Wow.

    I would have to agree with those who are wondering if perhaps Bristol is pregnant again. And perhaps not even by Levi.

    Seems to me that the big money to be made by both Levi and Bristol is in a tell-all book. Maybe if they tick SP off beyond all possibility of forgiveness and redemption they can go ahead and write about Joan Crawford, I mean SP, and her wire hangers.

    • Lower48 says:

      Here’s another thought: Children learn what they live. And I’m quite sure that Bristol has had ample opportunity to observe momma “doing her thing” in public as well as in private. Oh, yeah – you betcha!

      Bristol knew once the announcement was made in the MSM that it couldn’t be taken back. Sowa would then have no choice. A public response would be expected almost immediately – and being such a family-values kinda gal, Sowa would be forced up against the proverbial wall into “accepting” their engagement… again.

    • Wolf Pack says:

      If you’re a liberal it doesn’t play well. But conservatives are authoritarians. They loved it even when Bush was dead wrong to stick to his position like a true father bully type. And of course Ronnie Raygun was wrong about most things but, acted like an as* so he was loved by conservatives.

  114. pinko says:

    It’s hard to imagine that Granny Grizzly didn’t engineer this whole thing – in order to shut Levi up. Oh, and to give Tripp’s forthcoming sibling legitimacy. 🙂

  115. pinko says:

    It’s hard to imagine that Granny Grizzly didn’t engineer this whole thing – in order to shut Levi up. Oh, and to give Tripp’s forthcoming sibling legitimacy. 🙂

  116. slipstream says:

    I just rushed outside and checked my mail . . . dang, my invitation hasn’t arrived yet!

  117. slipstream says:

    I just rushed outside and checked my mail . . . dang, my invitation hasn’t arrived yet!

  118. rondo says:

    Let’s see, didn’t I read somewhere that Sarah claimed one floor of that extra home she was building at the compound was an apartment for Bristol and Tripp, and that another was an apartment for Track and a third was her office?

    But then I read elsewhere that Bristol gets a condo in Anchorage, and has Track’s girlfirend as either a roommate or VERY frequent houseguest (hmmm. wanna bet where Track’s been spending a lot of time?) Funny, looks like her own kids don’t even want to be around Sarah all that much once they can make their own decisions. .

    And that statement of Todd’s? Did I notice some handwashing gestures along with that statement?

  119. rondo says:

    Let’s see, didn’t I read somewhere that Sarah claimed one floor of that extra home she was building at the compound was an apartment for Bristol and Tripp, and that another was an apartment for Track and a third was her office?

    But then I read elsewhere that Bristol gets a condo in Anchorage, and has Track’s girlfirend as either a roommate or VERY frequent houseguest (hmmm. wanna bet where Track’s been spending a lot of time?) Funny, looks like her own kids don’t even want to be around Sarah all that much once they can make their own decisions. .

    And that statement of Todd’s? Did I notice some handwashing gestures along with that statement?

  120. LibertyLover says:

    “…they will remain abstinent until the wedding night….”

    That ship has sailed.

    I’m wondering if the Queen Bee will remain obstinate.

  121. LibertyLover says:

    “…they will remain abstinent until the wedding night….”

    That ship has sailed.

    I’m wondering if the Queen Bee will remain obstinate.

  122. Lacy Lady says:

    Would you love to have a talk with Levi’s sister Mercede? I am sure she knows what we all would like to know.

  123. Lacy Lady says:

    Would you love to have a talk with Levi’s sister Mercede? I am sure she knows what we all would like to know.

  124. A Fan From Chicago says:

    I think they keep coming up with these stunts so Dunn and McGinniss can NEVER finish their books. By the time this is over you’re going to need a sherpa and a yak to lift them.

    • bubbles says:

      cripes!!! that’s funny.

    • silverball says:

      very, very funny….and maybe a small burro to carry them around….lol

    • Wolf Pack says:

      True and real ghost writers to write the end to this saga. It’s getting biblical.

    • Elizabeth says:

      Wonderful!!!! LOL

    • leenie17 says:

      You know they do publish encyclopedias in volumes. Might work in this situation too!

      • CorningNY says:

        “a sherpa and a yak to lift them”

        !! I really did laugh out loud….

        leenie17–yes, and they’ll have to come out with an update every year to include all the recent goings-on

    • Dagian says:

      So pre-order them now, before the price goes up!

  125. A Fan From Chicago says:

    I think they keep coming up with these stunts so Dunn and McGinniss can NEVER finish their books. By the time this is over you’re going to need a sherpa and a yak to lift them.

  126. Lower48 says:

    Betcha this marriage will last exactly 482 days —- the day after Election Day 2011. This is another joke / scam that was hatched by a GOP strategist. Just remember folks, leave her kids out of politics. Only Sarah is allowed to use her children as political tools.

    • Irishgirl says:

      I agree. I think Levi has been paid to take the heat from Bristol’s latest escapade. Can I just reiterate that I am so disappointed in the American MSM. It is not funny.

    • Carol J says:

      Sarah will parade them around as she did in 2008. Bristol and Levi will soon teach their young son to talk. Maybe they can teach Sarah how to properly pronounce the word “nuclear”. Sarah, Presidential-Want-to-Be, there is only one (1) U in nuclear.

  127. Lower48 says:

    Betcha this marriage will last exactly 482 days —- the day after Election Day 2011. This is another joke / scam that was hatched by a GOP strategist. Just remember folks, leave her kids out of politics. Only Sarah is allowed to use her children as political tools.

    • Irishgirl says:

      I agree. I think Levi has been paid to take the heat from Bristol’s latest escapade. Can I just reiterate that I am so disappointed in the American MSM. It is not funny.

    • Carol J says:

      Sarah will parade them around as she did in 2008. Bristol and Levi will soon teach their young son to talk. Maybe they can teach Sarah how to properly pronounce the word “nuclear”. Sarah, Presidential-Want-to-Be, there is only one (1) U in nuclear.

  128. tallimat says:

    My girls will state that I’m not the most humble mother in law around.
    I will load up a frozen moose turd into my wrist rocket sling shot and make numerous aim to by son in laws arse. In a heartbeat, given a reason, IT will happen.

    However I can honestly state my kids are not afraid to tell me anything.

    Why am I reminded of those who “parent by fear” with this story?

    Sad.

  129. tallimat says:

    My girls will state that I’m not the most humble mother in law around.
    I will load up a frozen moose turd into my wrist rocket sling shot and make numerous aim to by son in laws arse. In a heartbeat, given a reason, IT will happen.

    However I can honestly state my kids are not afraid to tell me anything.

    Why am I reminded of those who “parent by fear” with this story?

    Sad.

  130. Moon says:

    I wonder if the bride will be wearing an empire white wedding gown? The empire cut is good when the bride wishes to draw the attention away from her waist. Just saying…..

  131. Moon says:

    I wonder if the bride will be wearing an empire white wedding gown? The empire cut is good when the bride wishes to draw the attention away from her waist. Just saying…..

  132. Winski says:

    No one could ever make this up, regardless how great a fiction writer they are – no way..

    So is the ground spinning in Wasilla today?? I’ll bet our real journalist pal that’s the next door neighbor of the Swag-Hag (with the new fence, is getting an ear full today….tee…hee….

  133. Winski says:

    No one could ever make this up, regardless how great a fiction writer they are – no way..

    So is the ground spinning in Wasilla today?? I’ll bet our real journalist pal that’s the next door neighbor of the Swag-Hag (with the new fence, is getting an ear full today….tee…hee….

  134. A Fan From Chicago says:

    This whole crazy clan needs an intervention. I think Pastor Muthee unleashed the devil or the witches or whatever the hell he allegedly drove out in church. Admittedly, my familiarity with hillbillies is pretty slim but this group has to be contenders for The Hillbilly Hall of Fame. They have no class, no shame and no clue.

  135. A Fan From Chicago says:

    This whole crazy clan needs an intervention. I think Pastor Muthee unleashed the devil or the witches or whatever the hell he allegedly drove out in church. Admittedly, my familiarity with hillbillies is pretty slim but this group has to be contenders for The Hillbilly Hall of Fame. They have no class, no shame and no clue.

  136. Baker's Dozen says:

    An interesting look at this from both political sides for Sarah

    http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/The-Vote/2010/0714/Bristol-Palin-and-Levi-Johnston-reunite-What-it-means-for-Sarah-Palin

    Let’s hope this Mama Grizzly doesn’t eat her young! But that statement she put out certainly sounds like she’s sharpening the carving knife behind her back, doesn’t it!
    And the article sounds like Bristol’s afraid that that’s exactly what she would do.

    • Rene says:

      And then a “Tell All” book will be next! I think peace will come out of this…

      • BigPete says:

        How about a cable tv show- “Levi & Bristol plus 2”? Kate Gosselin is becoming rather tiresome!

    • johnny says:

      That was remarkable that Bristol used the words “intimidating” and “scary”, re her mother, deciding instead to let her mother know via an international magazine. Note she didn’t say that about her father. I wonder how Mrs. Palin found out.

      • Elizabeth says:

        I’m sorry, but I suspect Sarah knew all along. What I’m curious about is what she has on Levi to get him to go along. If Bristol is pregnant, as per the rumors, it isn’t likely to be his child. Ben, or whoever, wouldn’t look so good– yet another man. Sarah needs Levi to make a pregnancy look “no so bad”. My guess is Levi can no longer afford the child support and she has been threatening him with jail, but that is just a guess.

        • Tanaga12 says:

          I’m with you but I don’t think it’s Sarah that’s pulling the strings. I think the Palins are way out of their league. Ma Griz has more power than she can handle and she keeps f-in up. Someone(s) else is working to keep her momentum and decimation of influence going. When I viewed the O’Reilly tape I see an insolent little girl being scolded for not getting the lesson. Her weird smile and upward gaze when pressured are child-like and defensive. I have a friend (fellow grad student in Sociology) who assures me (when I freak out about the conservative bent of many incoming political women) that this is the natural course. These are controllable women. SP seems so that- the vacancy in her eyes. I’m struggling with it, but maybe a reason to support any female regardless for the long run. Anyway- I think these kids lost their mother to fame and fortune or “God’s plan” (whatever!) a while back. It is sad but Bristol and Levi may find common ground in dealing with this- who else could relate. But it’s the others that may suffer bigger impacts and present bigger challenges for the puppet masters going into 2012 or 16. So that’s my post-glass of wine conspiracy theory and the gilt-o-meter is on full tilt so back to school work. You guys (and SP updates) are my guilty pleasure!

          • mady says:

            “These kids lost their mother to fame and fortune or God’s plan (whatever) a while back, ” is the best summary I have read yet. Bristol and Levi sure haven’t had much parenting. It’s understandable that they want to be good parents.

    • aussiegal77 says:

      Maybe we can suggest a 2 state solution for the Palins and Palin-Johnstons?

      =D

  137. Baker's Dozen says:

    An interesting look at this from both political sides for Sarah

    http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/The-Vote/2010/0714/Bristol-Palin-and-Levi-Johnston-reunite-What-it-means-for-Sarah-Palin

    Let’s hope this Mama Grizzly doesn’t eat her young! But that statement she put out certainly sounds like she’s sharpening the carving knife behind her back, doesn’t it!
    And the article sounds like Bristol’s afraid that that’s exactly what she would do.

    • Rene says:

      And then a “Tell All” book will be next! I think peace will come out of this…

      • BigPete says:

        How about a cable tv show- “Levi & Bristol plus 2”? Kate Gosselin is becoming rather tiresome!

    • johnny says:

      That was remarkable that Bristol used the words “intimidating” and “scary”, re her mother, deciding instead to let her mother know via an international magazine. Note she didn’t say that about her father. I wonder how Mrs. Palin found out.

      • Elizabeth says:

        I’m sorry, but I suspect Sarah knew all along. What I’m curious about is what she has on Levi to get him to go along. If Bristol is pregnant, as per the rumors, it isn’t likely to be his child. Ben, or whoever, wouldn’t look so good– yet another man. Sarah needs Levi to make a pregnancy look “no so bad”. My guess is Levi can no longer afford the child support and she has been threatening him with jail, but that is just a guess.

        • Tanaga12 says:

          I’m with you but I don’t think it’s Sarah that’s pulling the strings. I think the Palins are way out of their league. Ma Griz has more power than she can handle and she keeps f-in up. Someone(s) else is working to keep her momentum and decimation of influence going. When I viewed the O’Reilly tape I see an insolent little girl being scolded for not getting the lesson. Her weird smile and upward gaze when pressured are child-like and defensive. I have a friend (fellow grad student in Sociology) who assures me (when I freak out about the conservative bent of many incoming political women) that this is the natural course. These are controllable women. SP seems so that- the vacancy in her eyes. I’m struggling with it, but maybe a reason to support any female regardless for the long run. Anyway- I think these kids lost their mother to fame and fortune or “God’s plan” (whatever!) a while back. It is sad but Bristol and Levi may find common ground in dealing with this- who else could relate. But it’s the others that may suffer bigger impacts and present bigger challenges for the puppet masters going into 2012 or 16. So that’s my post-glass of wine conspiracy theory and the gilt-o-meter is on full tilt so back to school work. You guys (and SP updates) are my guilty pleasure!

    • aussiegal77 says:

      Maybe we can suggest a 2 state solution for the Palins and Palin-Johnstons?

      =D

  138. BigPete says:

    It’s touching that Grandma is so delighted that the little boy will grow up having his father around.

  139. BigPete says:

    It’s touching that Grandma is so delighted that the little boy will grow up having his father around.

  140. Rene says:

    I wish them well. Mama Grizzly will be on the prowl or knows first via a text. Young love, I feel for them. Kids say the darndest things. Remember this is about politics and Palin 2012. I think she should run and remind the country that for 8 years the Republicans had the govt and what major wonderful things happened during those years? Now, they want to reduce it to a “Okey Dokey, Yep USA you’re Brokey” soundbite. Solutions people!!! I give the Repubs more credit than that.

    • kate says:

      We should all wish Bristol Palin and Levi Johnston well. To be sucked up into the whorl of Palin politics at 17 was very hard on Bristol. I imagine that Levi Johnston told the truth when he said that Bristol and Willow (and now Piper) did more than their share of babysitting and cooking for the family — Levi must have seemed a way out of the Palin household for Bristol. And maybe she needs his support in order to strike out on her own, away from the influence of her parents and all the hoopla. My wish for them is that the media will go away, and they can grow up and live out their lives away from the prying eyes and gossiping tongues.

      • vyccan says:

        I do wish them well. I have always felt that he cared about Bristol, based on the careful way he avoided saying anything mean about her, even when he was busy ‘dissing’ her mother. However, I question this – ‘My wish for them is that the media will go away, and they can grow up and live out their lives away from the prying eyes and gossiping tongues.’

        Can’t they say ‘no’ when the Media comes knocking? [Bristol’s mother does when it suits her purpose.] It seems to me that no one is forcing the young people to lay out their business to the world, yet they seem to do so readily enough. Frankly, they seem to enjoy the limelight.

        • barbara says:

          i have to agree with you. they could have eloped away from the prying eyes but they chose to announce on a nationwide magazine cover. obviously they know where their bread is buttered and aren’t interested in education or real work.

  141. Rene says:

    I wish them well. Mama Grizzly will be on the prowl or knows first via a text. Young love, I feel for them. Kids say the darndest things. Remember this is about politics and Palin 2012. I think she should run and remind the country that for 8 years the Republicans had the govt and what major wonderful things happened during those years? Now, they want to reduce it to a “Okey Dokey, Yep USA you’re Brokey” soundbite. Solutions people!!! I give the Repubs more credit than that.

    • kate says:

      We should all wish Bristol Palin and Levi Johnston well. To be sucked up into the whorl of Palin politics at 17 was very hard on Bristol. I imagine that Levi Johnston told the truth when he said that Bristol and Willow (and now Piper) did more than their share of babysitting and cooking for the family — Levi must have seemed a way out of the Palin household for Bristol. And maybe she needs his support in order to strike out on her own, away from the influence of her parents and all the hoopla. My wish for them is that the media will go away, and they can grow up and live out their lives away from the prying eyes and gossiping tongues.

      • vyccan says:

        I do wish them well. I have always felt that he cared about Bristol, based on the careful way he avoided saying anything mean about her, even when he was busy ‘dissing’ her mother. However, I question this – ‘My wish for them is that the media will go away, and they can grow up and live out their lives away from the prying eyes and gossiping tongues.’

        Can’t they say ‘no’ when the Media comes knocking? [Bristol’s mother does when it suits her purpose.] It seems to me that no one is forcing the young people to lay out their business to the world, yet they seem to do so readily enough. Frankly, they seem to enjoy the limelight.

  142. Wolf Pack says:

    Just when it seemed their 15 minutes of fame was ending, a whole new plot comes into play.

    • Tanaga12 says:

      And this to me really seems the point. Just when any of the Palins start to fade back into that ol’ Alayskin frontier some new twist is tossed out to the media like a chunk of moose back to a sled dog. I am cynical enough to think that there was never really a war between Ma Griz and the young Levi. All media is good media and this is just more of the same. But that would imply a level of cunning intelligence that is also hard to fathom. ??

  143. Wolf Pack says:

    Just when it seemed their 15 minutes of fame was ending, a whole new plot comes into play.

    • Tanaga12 says:

      And this to me really seems the point. Just when any of the Palins start to fade back into that ol’ Alayskin frontier some new twist is tossed out to the media like a chunk of moose back to a sled dog. I am cynical enough to think that there was never really a war between Ma Griz and the young Levi. All media is good media and this is just more of the same. But that would imply a level of cunning intelligence that is also hard to fathom. ??

  144. rebekkah says:

    Popcorn stocks are going to go through the roof!

    And, Prince William is marrying this summer. Also, Chelsea Clinton. It’s going to be a summer of love!

    • bronislawa blumschaefter says:

      Do you think it’s killing Sarah that Hilary Clinton’s daughter is having a beautiful wedding to a young man who is not yet the father of her child?

      BTW, I read the article in People mag that sez Levi is still “studying for his GED exam.” Dude is 20 years old – I didn’t take that long to study for two bar exams.

  145. rebekkah says:

    Popcorn stocks are going to go through the roof!

    And, Prince William is marrying this summer. Also, Chelsea Clinton. It’s going to be a summer of love!

  146. johnny says:

    “things that weren’t exactly true

    I just figured that was a little private joke meaning he didn’t tell it ALL

  147. johnny says:

    “things that weren’t exactly true

    I just figured that was a little private joke meaning he didn’t tell it ALL

  148. pvazwindy says:

    Is Levi the father of any of these kids? The palins breed like rabbits.

    • nswfm says:

      I was thinking of horned toads, not rabbits, but I just read something from a psycho “missionary” on another site, so I was disgusted before I came here.

      If there was a prepared statement on Today, this was all orchestrated by the PR people, pushing this F’ing fraud down our throats. Sorry to be such a cynic, but I’ve had MarComm, PR and Advertising reporting to me when I lived in NYC and lived and worked a few blocks from the CBS Early Show and the Today Show.

      • bubbles says:

        no need to be sorry. you are of course, absolutely correct. to refuse to be a fool is to be a cynic.

    • Bretta says:

      Two brown-eyed brown-haired people made a baby with bright blue eyes and blond hair?
      $$Palin must really think we are stoooopid.

      • Dagian says:

        No, that’s simple genetics. Brown is dominant over blonde (and a lot of brown-haired people started out as blondes as children. I did.), brown eyes are dominant and blue is recessive. If both Levi and Bristol are heterozygous for brown eyes, then there’s a 25% chance of having a blue-eyed child. Voila–a blue-eyed child.

  149. pvazwindy says:

    Is Levi the father of any of these kids? The palins breed like rabbits.

    • nswfm says:

      I was thinking of horned toads, not rabbits, but I just read something from a psycho “missionary” on another site, so I was disgusted before I came here.

      If there was a prepared statement on Today, this was all orchestrated by the PR people, pushing this F’ing fraud down our throats. Sorry to be such a cynic, but I’ve had MarComm, PR and Advertising reporting to me when I lived in NYC and lived and worked a few blocks from the CBS Early Show and the Today Show.

      • bubbles says:

        no need to be sorry. you are of course, absolutely correct. to refuse to be a fool is to be a cynic.

  150. Irishgirl says:

    Hehehehehe……AKM, I am trying to behave cos I am a mod. But this latest bit of news really takes the biscuit. 🙂

  151. Irishgirl says:

    Hehehehehe……AKM, I am trying to behave cos I am a mod. But this latest bit of news really takes the biscuit. 🙂

  152. kizzy says:

    “Bristol at 19 is now a young adult. We obviously want what’s best for our children. Bristol believes in redemption and forgiveness to a degree most of us struggle to put in practice in our daily lives.”

    Gee… that sounds like a thinly veiled insult.

    • johnny says:

      not so thinly veiled. I suppose she isn’t even mad at BOR anymore.

      • InOhio says:

        Need to keep up appearances… you know Bristol was told to get him back in the fold so they could have him properly gagged for the lead up to the 2012 run.

        The big question will be if any new babies are on the way 🙂

    • LibertyLover says:

      “…Bristol believes in redemption and forgiveness to a degree most of us struggle to put in practice in our daily lives….”

      What a VERY Telling Statement!!!!!

      • seattlefan says:

        I thought so too. I think she is the one who struggles with it the most. Projection?

        • southernyankee says:

          Yes, I thought she was projecting too. Gosh Levi you are walking into the pits of hell. Make sure you wear a condom. Although the picture kinda looks like she already is pregnant. Why getting married within 6 weeks. Hmmmm Just wondering Bristol.

          • CorningNY says:

            It’s gotta happen quick because that no-sex thingy isn’t working out too well for her and Levi. Once you’ve done it, it’s REEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAALLLLLYYY hard to stop…

    • Nan (aka roswellborn) says:

      Not that thin, really. It paints Saint Bristol in the drivers’ seat, and Levi in the doghouse, where he oh-so-obviously belongs (apparently).

    • overthemoon says:

      Well you know when Bristol was growin’ up, I taught her that when you have to throw someone under the bus because they just aren’t being a good part of our lives anymore you just have to keep on driving that bus down the road to where God wants you to go. And I told her DO NOT get all sentimental and thinking about anything and DO NOT stop that bus and go back and let that person who is not good for me, I mean us, I mean you, back on the bus. You just leave them there and they’ll find their own way home and you just keep drivin’. Toot Toot goes the bus.

  153. kizzy says:

    “Bristol at 19 is now a young adult. We obviously want what’s best for our children. Bristol believes in redemption and forgiveness to a degree most of us struggle to put in practice in our daily lives.”

    Gee… that sounds like a thinly veiled insult.

    • johnny says:

      not so thinly veiled. I suppose she isn’t even mad at BOR anymore.

    • LibertyLover says:

      “…Bristol believes in redemption and forgiveness to a degree most of us struggle to put in practice in our daily lives….”

      What a VERY Telling Statement!!!!!

      • seattlefan says:

        I thought so too. I think she is the one who struggles with it the most. Projection?

        • southernyankee says:

          Yes, I thought she was projecting too. Gosh Levi you are walking into the pits of hell. Make sure you wear a condom. Although the picture kinda looks like she already is pregnant. Why getting married within 6 weeks. Hmmmm Just wondering Bristol.

          • CorningNY says:

            It’s gotta happen quick because that no-sex thingy isn’t working out too well for her and Levi. Once you’ve done it, it’s REEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAALLLLLYYY hard to stop…

    • Nan (aka roswellborn) says:

      Not that thin, really. It paints Saint Bristol in the drivers’ seat, and Levi in the doghouse, where he oh-so-obviously belongs (apparently).

    • overthemoon says:

      Well you know when Bristol was growin’ up, I taught her that when you have to throw someone under the bus because they just aren’t being a good part of our lives anymore you just have to keep on driving that bus down the road to where God wants you to go. And I told her DO NOT get all sentimental and thinking about anything and DO NOT stop that bus and go back and let that person who is not good for me, I mean us, I mean you, back on the bus. You just leave them there and they’ll find their own way home and you just keep drivin’. Toot Toot goes the bus.

  154. johnny says:

    Translation: “@#%!”

    rotf

  155. johnny says:

    Translation: “@#%!”

    rotf

  156. chascates says:

    And since she took a purity pledge there’s NO WAY SHE’S PREGNANT!

  157. chascates says:

    And since she took a purity pledge there’s NO WAY SHE’S PREGNANT!

  158. califpat says:

    Wow! Just Wow!!

  159. califpat says:

    Wow! Just Wow!!