There are perfectly acceptable times to trash your ex. Case in point: every woman understood when Jen Aniston accused ex-husband Brad Pitt of lacking a sensitivity chip, after he dumped her for Angelina.
She was justified in letting the public know the depths of her disgust. We sympathized.
If Mary Louise Parker had called boyfriend of seven years, Billy Crudup, a cad when he ditched her for the younger Claire Danes, when she was seven months pregnant, no woman would have blamed her.
Every woman who has been through high school knows that trashing your ex to your friends is not only socially acceptable but part of the post-breakup recovery process, accompanied by a pint of Ben and Jerry's.
Nevertheless, the Palin women take public trashing to a whole new and totally uncool level.
Bristol Palin, 
18, and her baby daddy and former fiancé Levi Johnston, 19, have now publicly announced the end of their engagement and their split. Both have now released statements that the decision is mutual...blah blah blah!
However, the statement only came after Johnston's sister Mercede spilled to Star magazine what is probably the non-publicist approved truth of the situation.
Mercede says Bristol broke up with Levi and doesn't allow him to bring baby Tripp to his family's house because she doesn't want him around "white trash."
Could it be that Bristol is concerned with her baby associating with her paternal grandmother Sherry Johnston, who has been charged with possession and distribution of the drug OxyContin?
Mercede also charges that Levi tried to visit two month-old Tripp every single day, but "Bristol makes it nearly impossible."
Now, the reason I don't doubt Mercede's version of the story -- Bristol trashing her ex and his family -- is because of the very public trashing and more, that her mom has been tied to, which also involves an ex-in-law: Sarah's brother-in-law.
Palin's sister, Molly McCann, split from her state trooper husband, Mike Wooten, and what happened subsequently got heavy coverage during the presidential campaign last fall.
A special investigator, Stephen Branchflower, reported to the Alaska Legislative Council that he had found that Governor Palin had "wrongfully permitted [her husband] Todd Palin to use the governor's office...to continue to contact subordinate state employees in an effort to find some way to get Trooper Wooten fired."
Whew! Talk about an "ex hunt." That takes trashing to a whole new level.
You better not mess with those Palin women when romance goes awry. Slicing and dicing exes appears to be in the family genes.
And the fact that kids end up in the middle doesn't seem to be a concern. Poor little Tripp may never get to know his dad, and Sarah's sister Molly was so slammed by divorce Judge John Suddock that he warned her and her family to stop "disparaging" Wooten's reputation or risk losing custody of her kids.
It sure is ironic. When it was politically expedient, Sarah spruced up her daughter's 
"redneck" boyfriend, and dressed him out of her family's $150,000 wardrobe budget, so he would be presentable at the Republican National Convention. He even got the John McCain bear hug.
Back then, the couple vowed there would be wedding bells. Well, thank God, the McCain-Palin ticket didn't win the White House. No doubt, there WOULD have been a wedding for PR purposes, followed by a miserable marriage for the two teen parents.
Now the Johnston family may be furious about the Palin women diss, but they should take comfort in the fact that Bristol has also trashed her mom's policy of abstinence-only sex education.
Well, duh?
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Hmmmm, I have a son and duaghter, do I want my daughter to follow Palin's example or be taught effective sex education and safe sex when the time comes. And should my son follow McCain and Bush's examples of how to skirt by and screw up or should he look to someone like Obama who worked hard, served the public good, studied, and made it to the presidency. Hmmmmm.
What is this world coming to???
I wouldn't trust this guy from the moment I first heard about him, and his web post on himself. His unengaged, self-reflective look also is less than winning. But it could be worse, that a young father wouldn't want to see his son. Indeed it is worrisome that he doesn't have the smarts to know a two-month old baby has no business going somewhere without his mom. And when one thinks of Tripp's going to his father's and grandmother's house it would certainly be best when he is able to report back on what he's seen and heard there. Children need to know their fathers; AND I think Bristol did the right thing. I also think it is very heartening, given the parents she has, that she has become someone who can speak her own mind.
I'm a daily reader of Huff Post, so I know you can do better than this. I think this is scraping the bottom of the barrel. Leave the girl alone!http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bonnie-fuller/bristol-and-levi-break-up_b_174495.html#
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xaxw7sVfVg4
Obviously, she nor her mother were overly concerned with her being left alone, so why are you? You sound as though you're personally involved with the family. If so, you should be counseling Sarah about her parenting style.
She needs to understand that she is not blameless in Bristol's pregnancy. Abstinence only education might work for a child who is in close relationship with and strictly supervised by his or her parents. BUT when mom is busy running the state and the "child" is often left unsupervised -- probably taking on adult responsibilities with respect to the care of home and siblings -- that child/"surrogate parent" may tend to become self-reliant to a fault and start having a mind of his or her own and thinking that he or she is competent to make his or her own personal decisions.
He or she might even make "bad" decisions in subconscious protest about the absence of parental ATTENTION.
Sarah should forget about politics and focus more on her children. They only have one childhood. She should make a greater effort not to miss it or BLOW IT.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xaxw7sVfVg4
I think we should let the Palin family alone - they had their 15 minutes of fame. Let Sarah Palin go back to governing Alaska.
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Wrong. Sister Sarah wants to be President and has no interest in governing Alaska. She speaks for the "End of Days" crowd and Rush's ditto-heads.
Sarah Palin is a terrible governor. Criticism of her is very valid and not evidence of jealousy.
I really wish you would come to Juneau and see her governing style in action, or I should say, inaction. She's not interested in Alaska policy, she's interested in promoting her own national ambitions, taking out her enemies and trashing many people who have helped her in the past.
She is not a serious governor. She is not a serious person. She is a celebrity. And therein lies the problem -- her adoring Lower 48 fans love her image, which is all contrived.
I wish you and others like you would become a little more informed, and a little more respectful of the job of being governor of Alaska. Take a peek at www.andrewhalcro.com.
I am sorry that Trig won't grow up with his daddy. I hope the two parents really do graduate from high school. I don't think Sarah Palin would make a good Vice President and certainly not a President. But I don't think that anybody should wish bad things on these kids. Especially not based on an article in the Star.
'Mercede also charges that Levi tried to visit two month-old Tripp every single day, but "Bristol makes it nearly impossible."'
Let's (you and the writer) not exaggerate. It says that Levi 'tried to visit two month-old Tripp every single day.' That is not a bad dad. But such visits do not have to be allowed and might only disrupt the mother. The baby is too young, anyway. Surely he could be around the baby for 2-3 hours 2-3 times a week and that would be good enough for him (he needs to get on with his studies and free his mind for his own development) and for the baby. Babies and children need to know their fathers, but not every day when they don't live with the baby and his mother -- it's too disruptive to the whole family. (And the baby is too young to be taken away from his mom.)
Second, Levi's sister says, 'and Bristol makes that nearly impossible'. Does she make visits 'every day' impossible? So...that's fine. Does she make 'visits' nearly impossible? What is nearly? Obviously she is not refusing his visits totally. So why does the author, and you, given the facts written here, assume that Tripp 'will never get to know his daddy'?
Wow. Good enough for him and the baby? Might disrupt the mother?
Listen, I'm the mom of two young ones, and barring abuse, children have a right to see more than six or seven hours of dad a week. Unless the baby is breastfed exclusively, there is not a shred of scientific data to support that the baby is too young to be 'taken away' from his mom--especially when he would be in the care of the dad.