Hurricane Johnston Drenches Palinville

Levi Johnston appears to be well versed in handling the media and squeezing the most out of his fifteen minutes of fame. Just when I thought Levi had said all he planned to regarding Sarah Palin and her family, according to people.com Levi will dish more dirt in an upcoming issue of Vanity Fair.

I have conflicting views on this issue. On the one hand, I find it tacky and classless that Levi is rationing his gossip to the press in an effort to stay relevant. I also think it is wrong that Sarah Palin cannot have privacy in her own home without worrying that a disgruntled ex of one of her daughters will later report on some of her more private thoughts and behaviors.

That being said, we are talking about Sarah Palin–not Jane Doe. Palin came within a few million votes of being second in line to be the President of the United States. A substantial part of Sarah Palin’s platform revolved around family issues, such as being a “hockey mom,” and on social issues like abstinence. If Palin’s private actions were not reflective of her campaign preaching, that is relevant information.

In regard to Palin’s hockey mom status, Levi states, “”Even before she was nominated, there wasn’t much parenting in that house. Sarah doesn’t cook, Todd doesn’t cook – the kids would do it all themselves: cook, clean, do the laundry, and get ready for school. Most of the time Bristol would help her youngest sister with her homework, and I’d barbecue chicken or steak on the grill.” So much for Sarah Palin cooking moose burgers and moose chili! In the article, Levi also intimates that Palin did not know how to use a gun and even asked him for instructions.

On the family values front, Levi states that Sarah Palin expressed the desire to adopt Bristol and Levi’s baby to keep it a secret–because obviously out of wedlock sex is taboo among conservatives. “That way, she said, Bristol and I didn’t have to worry about anything,” wrote Johnston. “Sarah kept mentioning this plan. She was nagging – she wouldn’t give up. She would say, ‘So, are you gonna let me adopt him?’ I think Sarah wanted to make Bristol look good, and she didn’t want people to know that her 17-year-old daughter was going to have a kid.” According to Levi, Sarah and Todd also spoke regularly about divorcing: “There was a lot of talk of divorce in that house … times when Sarah and Todd would mention it and sound pretty serious,” Levi said.

Helping lend credibility to reports from the McCain campaign that Sarah Palin had “gone rogue,” Levi discusses Palin’s sense of self-importance, with statements  like, “I brought everything to the table” and “The majority of people were out there voting because of me!” Levi summarized, “She definitely thought she was running for president.”

I am sure more dirty details will surface once the entirety of this piece from Vanity Fair comes out in a few weeks. I do not enjoy taking part in a public family feud, but I feel it is important to try to understand who Sarah Palin is and where she comes from, especially if she is poising herself for a 2012 presidential run or any role on the national stage.

One cannot help but wonder, if even a fraction of what Levi says is true and Sarah Palin was faking a substantial part of her public persona, what kind of president would she have made? Obviously there are more important issues when talking about why Sarah Palin should not be president, but as long as she continues to describe herself as a hockey mom, “Jane six-pack,” and a gun-toting, family values conservative, we need to remain aware of and expose her deception and hypocrisy. It is likely not confined to those issues and is instead a reflection of her integrity.

2 Responses to “Hurricane Johnston Drenches Palinville”

1. Tom Degan says:

   September 3, 2009 at 5:24 am

   “The America that I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down Syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama’s “death panel” so his bureaucrats can decide, based on subjective judgment, of their “level of productivity in society”, whether they are worthy of health care. Such a system is downright evil.”

   Sarah Palin
   from her Fascism….I mean, “Facebook” page.

   It’s amazing. That an imbecile like this failed ex-governor can mention something as idiotic as “Death Panels” and in the next instance it is a serious part of the national dialogue. Why are the American people so susceptible to such blatant propaganda? I have a theory if you’re interested in hearing it:

   We’re idiots.

   I don’t know about you, but I’m loving the Sarah Palin/Levi Johnston saga/soap opera. And to think that only one year ago, the geniuses on the Republican National Committee deemed her to be the best choice to be “a seventy-two-year-old heartbeat away from the presidency”.

   Are you surprised that the “party of Lincoln” is imploding? You shouldn’t be. You really shouldn’t.

   http://www.tomdegan.blogspot.com

   Tom Degan, Goshen, NY
2. ChrisM says:

   September 3, 2009 at 11:30 am

   I actually disagreed with Cole slightly on this. I have no sympathy for Sarah Palin on her personal foibles being exposed. I hope eventually some scandal emerges that will be enough to drive her out of the nation’s consciousness permanently.