Is anyone surprised that Bristol Palin and Levi Johnson broke up? I was shocked they stayed together for this long after the election. They probably thought it was heroic to keep up their sham engagement until after their son was born. So one day, they can tell Tripp that mommy and daddy really gave it a shot. Though surely Google will be around in the future (because Google is slowly taking over the world) and when Tripp is big enough to use search engines, he will eventually Google himself just like the rest of us do (sometimes more than once a day).
Tripp's pudgy little fingers (face it, he's going to be fat, most kids in America are) will type "Tripp Palin" into the search window and a plethora of news stories and sarcastic blog postings will pop up. He'll learn that Mommy's pregnancy was revealed four days after Grammy Sarah announced her run for Vice Presidency. He'll also note that Grammy's hair has always looked like a Dairy Queen cone with bangs. Upon further research, Tripp will discover that Grammy threatened to hunt Daddy down and make a rug out of him unless he married Mommy. And he'll see pictures like this one:
Then poor Tripp will learn that less than three months after he was born, Mommy and Daddy split up. He'll contemplate if his parents were ever really in love or if Grammy's meddling forced their union. He'll ponder if he was a blessing or a result of two horny teens whose parents didn't believe in teaching safe sex. And perhaps above all, he'll marvel in amazement that Grandpa Todd still has that douchy goatee.
This country should do more to support young mothers who do decide carry their pregnancies to term, and less to shame them.
What are we saying about ourselves that we would laugh at someone learning in life about the ridiculous affair that went on around his birth? Yes, it was related to Sarah Palin's belief's, but now more than ever I see that child as a political pawn.
Heaven bless him.
I have a child who was unplanned, but definitely not a mistake, a lucky surprise, in fact, but we were adults and married and our child was not a poster boy for anyone or anything.
More interesting than a relationship that never actually existed is that TeamSarah founders are dissing their Sarah:
Statement of Team Sarah Co-Founders Marjorie Dannenfelser and Jane Abraham:
“Like many pro-life Americans across the country, we were disappointed to learn that Alaska Governor Sarah Palin chose a former Planned Parenthood board member to serve on the Alaska State Supreme Court. We understand Alaska’s unique selection process limited her choices, and that in this case, she was limited to two bad choices.
We know that Governor Palin is pro-life. In addition to her personal pro-life witness, she counts pro-life suffragette Susan B. Anthony among her heroes. That said, we assume this was a very difficult decision for her, but we wish she would have made a different one.
This choice of Morgan Christen to serve on Alaska’s Supreme Court may very well create a tough situation for Palin down the road. The long-term difficulty that she may be faced with is a Supreme Court decision that undercuts her own support for Alaska’s parental notice measure. That result would be a very disappointing outcome for Alaska parents.”