Alaska Gov. Palin's daughter's, boyfriend break up

Source: AP wire via The Huffington Post

WASILLA, Alaska — Levi Johnston and Bristol Palin, the teenage daughter of Gov. Sarah Palin, have broken off their engagement, he said Wednesday, about 2 1/2 months after the couple had a baby.

Johnston, 19, told The Associated Press that he and 18-year-old Bristol Palin mutually decided "a while ago" to end their relationship. He declined to elaborate as he stood outside his family's home in Wasilla, about 40 miles north of Anchorage.

He also said some details of the breakup, rumors of which had been swirling on the Internet, were inaccurate.

Bristol Palin said in a statement issued through a spokeswoman for her mother's political action committee that she was "devastated."

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20090311/brist... /

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I don't think anyone could have anticipated this.


I know this will probably go to GD, but I thought, what the hell.

This disfunctional situation should be avoided at all cost.

Abstinence from the Palin family is the only solution.

So Solly

n/t.

Badda-boom.

Dam, she said he is white trash. Levi can now give the dirt on Palin family, since Bristol kicked him to the curb. I'm sure his sister got some money for this story. I see this is getting very in-te-resting! Let me get my from row seat to "The Wasilla Hillbilly"

And she probably made Levi field dress a moose to prove hisself.

i mean, they were a loving couple and sarah's symbol of all that's...well, all that's something in the world...

jebus, who could have EVER seen this coming?

musta been the bright lights and the big cities...

damn, i can hardly believe this...

In the last year she got pregnant while in high school, had her personal life scrutinized by the national media, seen her mother become a laughing stock, had a baby, and now she's broken up with her baby's father. It's a lot for anyone to go through, especially at her age.

Now maybe we can expect Sarah Palin's next publicity stunt: aerial hunting and field dressing of Levi Johnston.

off limits.

poor little bastard

Dam!

A good Christian couple NOT marrying! What on earth will Sarah's witch hunting minister think? Scandalous I tell ya!

I guess it doesn't matter, he and sarah are still weirdo's.

It's not a big deal, and I don't really give a shit about either of them, but the way you have it now, it's saying that Bristol is "devastated" about the breakup, which is not what the article said. She was devastated about the Star report by Levi's sister saying Bristol was basically a bitch who wasn't letting Levi see his son.

on their front page... http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/03/11/us/AP-Bristo...

It's still not clear, then, exactly what she was "devastated" about, but the confusion's obviously not the OP's fault.

Thanks for cluing me in there.

Levi is a major piece of work.

<snip>

According to Mercedes, Bristol Palin has almost completely cut Levi Johnston out of her life - and that of their two-month-old son, Tripp.

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Levi tries to visit Tripp every single day, but Bristol makes it nearly impossible," his sister allegedly said. "She tells him he can't take the baby to our house because she doesn't want him around 'white trash'! She treats him so badly!"

<more> (sickeningly more)


http://www.celebist.com/2009/03/report-bristol-palin-du...

Sad but true.

My guess is that it was Bristol--she doesn't see the point of making a bad situation worse.


rocktivity

to be the child of the Republican's vice-presidential candidate? The 2008 campaign ended four months ago. This girl ended up in the middle of everything simply because her mother is a demented wacko. Can't we just wish her well and let her go her way?

What I do see is people pointing out that these fundies can't even make their own children do what they tell us we should make ours do.

introduced us to America's favorite bobbly-headed Alaska secessionist, Hunts-Wolves-From-Planes

If we're going to keep noticing Bristol, maybe we could at least push a birth control, prenatal, and early childhood care act through congress in her name

Totally true and right to the point

Part of Palin's entire platform (as well as that of the GOP as a whole) is the whole "family values" BS. I know not only what's best for my children, I know what's best for your children, and no amount of evidence from teachers, doctors, psychologists, sociologists, etc. is going to tell me otherwise on any issue. It's murder to abort a fetus, but isn't it so wonderful that my daughter Bristol chose to keep her baby? And that I chose to keep a Down baby?

Pointing out problems in Bristol's life is not a matter of reveling in this girl's pain, but merely highlighting the all-around incompetence and hypocrisy of her mother and her mother's beliefs. And since Palin still makes sure to pop up in the news every now and then (though she's been lying low recently, probably to let Jindal take the mantle of "GOP village idiot") and will surely be a candidate in 2012, her failures and hypocrisies here are still relevant.

Now, I don't think it's right to laugh at someone because his/her son was arrested on drugs charges, for example, even if the person is a political opponent, but if that person had just been telling me I was a bad parent for letting my son or daughter smoke pot, I wouldn't hesitate to hold up his crack-addicted son as proof of his lack of credibility on the matter (to put it nicely).

Junior, why not?

If you want to see "thread after thread trashing Al Gore, Jr." (aka the winner of the 2000 election) go to Freeperville.

Second of all, is Al Gore a crazy anti-drug crusader? Sure, he's not pro-legalization AFAIK, but I don't see him going around telling people they're horrible for smoking pot (and he himself admitted smoking it, too). If Al Gore III bought a Hummer and went around clubbing baby seals, then maybe you'd have a point.

"Why not?"

I already told you! Bristol Palin is the result of Sarah Palin's parenting and her beliefs which she wants to inflict upon the rest of America. Her situation is relevant to Palin's (and her supporters') credibility on her own platform. Again, she's anti-choice--but lauds her daughter for "choosing" to keep the baby; she's pro-abstinence-only sex ed... yet her oldest daughter is an unwed teenage mother (you're insane if you don't think that's relevant).

What's truly bullshit is that you think that parents shouldn't be held accountable for how their teenage children act or that their children's actions shouldn't reflect on the parent, especially when those parents want to legislate their supposed "family values."


Now, there is one extraneous reason Bristol Palin specifically receives scorn: she's getting what her mom's political establishment gives to all other white AND non-white unwed teenage mothers in this country. Were she not their then-VP Candidate's daughter she'd just be another teenage whore who couldn't keep her legs together and who won't be marrying the baby daddy (who's probably some ne'r-do-well gangsta anyway; you know how "they" are) and if her name were, say, "Maria Lopez," the radio shows that Sarah Palin frequents would be pointing at this girl and saying "see, this will be the downfall of America!"

But, no, she's Bristol Palin, so instead she's a sweet, intelligent girl who just made a bad decision. But she *chose* to keep the baby and the father will still be included in the child's life, so we should all be happy for her and applaud her maturity in this difficult time! Awwww.

is disgusting and only gives her power. Don't be stupid.

...then their families will be off limits, too. That's the whole god-damned point. They exist to destroy families--whether because one or both parents are here illegally, or gay, or unmarried, or underage, or if the person doesn't even want to be a parent and has an abortion, etc., they never shy away from condemning those people as "what's wrong with America." But when it's one of their own, they put them on the stage at their national convention and give them a fucking standing ovation.

put's their families on the "national stage". Get real.

Wha like none of you were thinking it

No really.

Then why did she get porked by him in the first place? Some people's logic escapes me.

mother.

Statistically, the "abstinence only" kids are less likely to use condoms than those kids who have been given proper, realistic sex education. So, maybe she wouldn't have gotten pregnant to begin with.
Poor girl. I wonder what her life will be like now. College will be difficult. Moving out of her parents' house almost impossible. Yuck.

a reality show. Go for it, before people lose interest entirely. (Oh, and BTW, that ticking sound you hear is your 15 minutes running out, so speed is advisable.) Love and kisses, Head of the Entertaintment Division of the Fox Network

going on in the repuglican party.

Shocked.

Source: CBS

The rumormill continues to churn around the Palin family in Wasilla, Alaska. Star Magazine is reporting Bristol Palin, daughter of former Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin, has broken off her engagement to her baby's father, Levi Johnston.

Citing quotes from Johnston's sister, Mercede, the Star's Web site reports the 18-year-old Bristol is estranged from the 19-year-old father of the couple's two-month-old son, Tripp.

"Levi tries to visit Tripp every single day, but Bristol makes it nearly impossible," the Star quotes Mercede as saying.

When news of the pregnancy arose on the campaign trail last year, Gov. Sarah Palin dismissed the issue as a case of "life happens" and urged the media to leave the matter as a family issue. However, Levi Johnston did appear at several campaign rallies during the run up to the November election.

Read more: http://cbs4denver.com/entertainment/bristol.palin.birth...

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Here's the original report from Star Magazine:

http://www.starmagazine.com/bristol_palin_levi_split/ne...

fatherhood?

I have no doubt that most of the folks in that family can be tricked into deciding something while making them think it's their own idea. But I seriously doubt anyone else in that family is clever enough to pull such a thing off!

McCain's camp made him remove it.....that boy had no intention of marrying into that family.

to Caribu Barbie's brother-in-law, can you blame him?

How would you like to have that hag as your mother in law?

Doesn't sound like 'the marrying type' to me ...

......that the wedding would never happen. I'll chalk it up to Levi Johnston's own "stimulus package"!!

Because if it was, you have a long time to wait until it pays off.

I'm not sure yet, but that's why there are spin doctors.

This is really getting to be funny. I wonder how much Levi will get for his first interview? And his tell-all about the campaign and the Palin family? Or will someone pay a pretty penny to keep what Levi did in Las Palins in Las Palins?

marriage doesn't work out.
Trust me, the fundies admire the shit out of it.

From her photo ops speeches and try to put Bristol as a single mom role model even though she is not a typical single mom. I think we all noticed how SP repeatedly said how 5 generations were raising the kid and just threw Levi's name in as an afterthought....now we see why. It had not yet surfaced that they had split. Guess this is the reason he was not invited along for the interview.

They would have gotten married immediately before anyone ever heard Palin's name outside Alaska.

him..he lost it "while hunting" and told her NOT to get him another one because "he would just LOSE IT AGAIN". Hence the "Bristol" tattoo on his finger. This was mentioned back pre-election after someone did a closeup pic of his ring finger and inquired about it.

...let it alone, y'all.

...this is all that some people have got.

This is tame compared to some of the hate filled posts about these kids earlier this year.

is the way that the MSM enabled the GOP in making any topic the reality of this happy couple may have illuminated off-limits. namely, the stunning failure of everything social policy the GOP advocated & funded while in power.

i hope bristol & levi find happiness.

Mike Hunt, and see if he knows...

This is the name adolescents like to put on a sign-in sheet, so when you call the roll...

http://www.aikencountysheriff.org

Message from Sheriff Michael Hunt

The Aiken County Sheriff's Office is in the people-serving business. As a law enforcement professional, I pledge to serve all the citizens and visitors of Aiken County.

And when did he start calling himself "Michael"?

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Family values is what you stand for; abstinence not birth control is your creed for teenagers.

We are not in any way bashing Bristol. In fact, we are embracing the young lady and only wish her success, happiness and a modicum of normalcy.

However, her life is in direct contravention to her mother's political ideology...which progressives have pointed out, ad nauseum, are unrealistic and overreaching for any political party.

In other words, you and your ilk tend to be the nastiest sort of hypocrites.

... considering her party and followers want to stick their noses in our bedrooms, force us to all be Christians, and are supposed to be more moral than us, and aren't...

Imagine how FoxNews would deal with the issue if the governor was a member of the Democratic Party.

Enjoy your hypocrisy while you can, bub.

Deleted while typing my answer. Quick move, mods.

They hounded a princess to her death, they'll hound anyone who ever tries to accomplish anything to the grave. And beyond. Sick fuckers. Sick planet. Let the kid be, she's got enough to deal with on her own without being this week's soap opera.

Sorry, this one's a bit personal for me.

Where is the news here, that two teens aren't able to sustain a relationship? That a teen pregnancy and birth is stressful to both parents? That Palin's daughter makes life decisions on her own now?

Sheesh.

... a person with no qualifications who seeks to present herself as the heir apparent of the Republican throne based upon the solidity of her good old fashioned family values evidently has not been able to foster even within her own family the warm, fuzzy, Father Knows Best, conservative, Christian paradise she aspires to impose upon the country. No one cares about the daughter, whatshersname, but by making family values a pillar in her public life, Sarah Palin has made her family life a public matter, as it speaks to the credibility of her policy proposals. If she would care to withdraw her goal of restoring the good old days of feudalism, then her private life (and her family's) could remain private. Until then, the success of the model of family values she would have the country emulate in its policies is newsworthy.

It would also be somewhat relevant if she were running for some national office now, but she isn't and obsessing over her teen daughter at this point is just like watching a reality TV show -- it's done for entertainment.

Sarah Failin and her ilk lost a battle, but they have by no means conceded the war. She and her party are still doing everything in their power to undermine the success of a Democratic administration and advance their failed policies and she personally is still maneuvering to be the Republican presidential candidate in an electoral race I expect her to announce before so much as six months have elapsed in the current administration's term. So what's really changed?

Why should Republicans be allowed to prescribe what is best for all of us and then not follow it themselves and not be called on it? It is Republicans who insist that all families must consist of a straight married couple who goes to church, etc., and the obvious fact that it does not insure offspring turn out to follow the rules they were taught does much to undermine Republican claims about what works in society.

she supported her mother by being up there on the platform and in the lime light, got free clothes, free trip, free food etc...she's fair game!

So she's a single mother, supported by the taxpayers of Alaska. Is that correct? Oh, boy.

ALL GET FREE clothes, etc.

The child needs his father in his life. Levi needs some assistance, or this family will steamroller him.

We are only getting one view of the story here. It might have more to do with Levi's Mom being involved with drugs. I hope for all those involved, the situation becomes balanced and sane.

Sarah was selfish to force these two young people into the spotlight. This was going to be difficult enough without a media feeding frenzy.. They all need assistance.

I think Bristol was smart enough to realize that she needed to run far away from this family. I mean really, would you want you baby to be in the care of someone who sold drugs? Now that the campaign is over, she can make some rational decisions about this relationship and say the sex was fun but now it's over and she needs to get on with her life and try to raise her child the best that she can, with or without a father.

That said, I think there are ways they can work together toward the same goals.

that is the reason she doesn't want Levi to take the baby over to his house. I do agree that I would have the same reaction to a drug dealing Grandmother. I think it would likely change if Levi had his own place and they agree to what kind of exposure the baby has to Grandma (no solo visits, Levi must be there, no dealers, dealing or using while visiting the baby,) or no visitation at all because grand parenting is privilege not a right. It's a privilege one earns by character and behavior).

I think they can figure out what's best for the baby and align both their desires to keep him safe. This is something they both need to be on the same page about. The more people who are looking out for the little guy the better.

what an 18 year old back woods girl is doing.

RRRRRRUUUUUUUUNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN!!!

While Bristol does show uncharacteristically un-Palin flashes of intelligence (realizes abstinence-only education doesn't work, dumping your sorry ass), and you are a troglodyte with nothing going for you from the neck up, the further you're away from it all, the better your life will be, and if you stay in Alaska, I can guarantee that your former future mother-in-law can and will make your life hard.

So get out of the state. Get a job dealing blackjack in Vegas or something. You may never realize your dreams (whatever they may have been), but you can at least avoid one big nightmare.

TlalocW

If he wants to stay be involved with his son, I say he's doing the right thing. He and Bristol may hate each others' guts by now, for all I know, but if he wants to see his son regularly, then he's doing one thing right.

Run, Levi, Run...Git while the gittin's good. Republicon's will understand your wide-stance Family Values perfectly, just as they will understand Bristol's. The Hypocrisy and Pharisee genes dwell in every Homelander.

So, run, run, run, run away...ay ay ayyyy.

count on that

I hope both parents are involved with him, but both grannies stay well away. Especially the Palin one!

I wish the baby all the best of luck for his future.

... oh wait, no, they were horny bored teenagers. Why can't they just own up to that??? She finally said something sensible about abstinence. Spin this Palin....

Is there someone somewhere who didn't see this coming the moment they first heard about Bristol's romp with this dumb kid? Come on.

They outlasted my expectations.

What's the difference between her being around white trash (her boyfriend) and the baby being around white trash? Why was it okay for her and not the baby?

Personally, I think Bristol and her family are all white trash.

whole concept of marriage.

Levi is probably secretly happy to not be engaged anymore.

Marriages under these circumstances rarely work.

the difficulties with a teenage spouse. This was not a relationship made in heaven and this is preferable to getting married now only to divorce in a few years. It will be better for all in the long run, IMO.

Aw, and they were such a happily engaged couple! (At least for the election season...)

ROFLMAO! Given the last family feud in the Palin clan, how long before Levi starts getting strange police stops, loses his job...

It was damage control - nothing else.

But don't worry - when Caribou Barbie runs for prez in 2012, all the "family values" voters will love her

I'm so glad that MSM sources are taking their stories from gossip rags

http://www.radaronline.com/exclusives/2009/03/bristol-p...

picture of Bristol, of course its hard to look bad at her age.

from the bridal registry at the Dollar Store?

as the mothers baby??????