re: #516 Gus 802

Levi Johnston is in a category of his own. As much as I dislike Sarah Palin I have no interest in her personal life only to the point where she brings it up. The details that he presented are of no concern to me. He’s a dirt bag because he should at least have remained somewhat loyal to their privacy. It’s basically “kiss and tell” and I know the excuse is that he did it for the money.

My issue with Palin over this is that she was perfectly happy to let her daughter marry the douchebag— or pretend they were getting married — during the campaign.

Two choices here: either she was so disconnected from her kids’ lives and their friends she didn’t know he was a douchebag (and I don’t believe that. By all accounts Palin was and is extremely involved in her kids’ lives. Even the McCain staffers who hated her admited that in the VF piece; they had to make sure they scheduled lots of time for her to be with her family or she just couldn’t function.)
OR
She knew he was a douchebag, and either was perfectly happy to let her daughter marry him out of some bullshit idea about ‘family values’— or she knew they wouldn’t get married and cynically used that, and them, as a political prop to fool the rubes.

Pretty damned shitty.