From my prescient self, just a few weeks ago:
It’s also quite the mystery why [Bristol Palin] hasn’t married good old Levi yet. Her lack of enthusiasm for that eventuality pretty much oozes out of the screen, and the only time she ever brings him up is when the interviewer directly asks her about him.
And hot off the People magazine presses today:
Bristol Palin and her fiancé Levi Johnston have broken up, two sources tell PEOPLE.
The split happened “a few weeks ago,” according to a source close to the couple, but it’s unclear what precipitated it. “It was a mutual thing,” adds the source.
Bristol, the 18-year-old daughter of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, spoke with FOX News in February and told Greta Van Susteren that she and Levi – who are parents to 2-month-old son, Tripp – expected to get married after they completed high school.
“It kind of just happened,” says the source, referring to the split. “I thought they would stick it out. But I think they can work together to raise Tripp.”
“I’m not sure what caused [them to break up] – it’s common knowledge,” says another source who knows the family.
So let me get this entirely straight…Bristol Palin is choosing to be an unwed teen mother when she could have been a wed teen mother instead.
This does remind me of that small news item from last year:
Palin Slashed Funding for Teen Moms
ST. PAUL — Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, the Republican vice-presidential nominee who revealed Monday that her 17-year-old daughter is pregnant, earlier this year used her line-item veto to slash funding for a state program benefiting teen mothers in need of a place to live.
After the legislature passed a spending bill in April, Palin went through the measure reducing and eliminating funds for programs she opposed. Inking her initials on the legislation — “SP” — Palin reduced funding for Covenant House Alaska by more than 20 percent, cutting funds from $5 million to $3.9 million. Covenant House is a mix of programs and shelters for troubled youths, including Passage House, which is a transitional home for teenage mothers.
According to Passage House’s web site, its purpose is to provide “young mothers a place to live with their babies for up to eighteen months while they gain the necessary skills and resources to change their lives” and help teen moms “become productive, successful, independent adults who create and provide a stable environment for themselves and their families.”
I mean, why reward those little sluts for their out-of-wedlock shenanigans with da gubment cheeze? If they’d just marry the father, then they’d already have a place to live! …er, right, Bristol..? and Sarah..?
Of course, Bristol Palin doesn’t need the services of Passage House. She’s being supported by the woman who did her best to gut their funding–wonder how well that sits with her..? Then again, I didn’t get the impression from Bristol’s Faux News interview that she’s in possession of a stellar or incisive intellect, so perhaps such thoughts have not troubled her brain. Or perhaps she’s just keeping as silent as possible on the subject to stretch out her parents’ support of her unwed teen motherhood as long as humanly possible–God knows I would, in her position.
I try really hard not to believe people are evil just because they believe things that I find objectionable — like that birth control is wrong, or that everyone should be Christians, or that hunting wolves from helicopters is just dandy (okay, well, that last one…) — but Jesus. Sarah Palin is working my last nerve.
Schadenfreude! Love it.
No, this is great. The reactionaries are finding it harder and harder, in the age of instant information, to say “Do as I say, not as I do.” So they back off. Remember how much shit Alan Keyes got for applying the GOP line about homosexuality to Mary Cheney? And when was the last time, post-Palin, you heard the Republicans simper about women with “careers”?
Well, thank God she wasn’t forced into marriage then.
I’m so happy that she’s reclaiming her life a bit. Particularly after reading this a few months ago.
Hey, me too! What a coincidence. I am glad for her that she is managing to carve out her own path – it’s certainly lucky for Bristol that the Republicans didn’t win.