Republican family values– you betcha!
Last week, Sarah Baracuda Palin’s sponsor Grampy McCain throttled back his once enthusiastic support for her 2012 presidential candidacy. This week she was disinvited from being the keynote speaker at the Senate-House dinner this spring, replaced by another disgraced Rethug, Neutron Bomb Gingrich. She also announced this week that Democratic Senator March Begich resign so that she can appoint his defeated opponent former Senator Ted Stevens, whose bribery case is being tossed on a technicality. (Prosecutorial misconduct by the Bush Administration’s Justice Department– whooda thunk?)
And that’s just her political karma. She also had to fork over thousands of dollars for taking illegal tax write-offs for herself and her family, charged to the Alaskan taxpayers.
As for her family karma, where to begin? There was the little issue of her unwed, teenage daughter, Bristol, getting pregnant by her now estranged beau, Levi Johnston. Recall how they were used as photogenic props by the McCain-Palin campaign on more than one occasion. In a brave interview with CNN , Bristol proclaimed that the abstinence family values meme pushed by conservatives was “not realistic.”
Then there was the arrest of Levi’s mother, Sarah Johnston, on six felony drug charges, her formal indictment held until well after the election.
And now we learn of the arrest this week of Todd Palin’s half-sister, Diana Palin, for burglary, who hit the same house twice in the same week.
During the three years I lived in Alaska (mid ’90s), there was a popular T-shirt that referred to the state’s disproportionate male/female population. Sarah and her relations have expanded its application:
Alaska. Where the odds are good but the goods are odd!
and now there’s levi flappin’ his gums on tyra banks’s show. he and bristol were sharing a room in princess sarah’s house, and he’s pretty sure that she knew they were doing the nasty. in addition, he and his family were under a gag order during the campaign. they were not to answer any questions. all questions were to be directed to the capt. underpants campaign.
as for todd’s sister, she brought her 4-year-old daughter to her robberies. awww, it must have been take-your-daughter-to-work day. hey, they really are all about family values!