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Father of Bristol Palin's child to attend GOP convention Palin's boyfriend, Levi Johnston, has left Alaska and is bound for St. Paul.
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  • A note to all by Anne Kilkenny

    http://www.andrys.com/palin-kilkenny.html

  • From the Washington Independent

    http://www.washingtonindependent.com/3671/the-reform-candidate

  • Just what they need at the RNC

    Another "f - - -in' redneck".

  • I'm Sure

    the grand 'ol party has allowed army recruiters to be on site -- they should want to make it convenient for their members to support their CIC and CIC wanna be. The soon to be daddy can enlist and he'll then have a job to be able to support his offspring. The army probably will take child rapists - they have had to tweak their rules so the can meet there recruitment goals under Bush.

  • Yeeeeehaaaa

    Jethro's cuzin Levi's comin' to town to make good!

  • Another f***n' redneck

    With a fun fiery & brimstone old testament name.

  • thanks, gop

    So, basically, the GOP intend to glorify teen pregnancy, so that if Jamie Lynn Spears didn't convince enough lonely, teen girls that pregnancy is a great way to get attention (even fame!!!), these kids will. Great. TY, party of Family Values.

  • I hope he's bringing a supply of Teenage Depends

    He's a small-town hockey puck who's yet to meet the Big Time, might get a little..excited.

  • Bristol's probably gonna have her kid home schooled

    So daddy Levi can teach the kid how to hunt and play hockey.

  • Pure Gold

    While I feel sorry for these two political pawns, er, I mean, poor teenagers, I can't help thanking John McCain for the pure entertainment he is providing.

  • I wondering if Levi's brothers are named

    Hezichaia and Mordachai? One can only wonder.

  • Levi's brothers are named Diesel, Lucky 7 and...Members Only

    The latter they've nicknamed "Moe".

  • The issues

    Please focus on the issues, not personalities.

  • It's the distraction, stupid

    As awful as the Palin choice is from a governing perspective, it remains to be seen what it's merits are from a purely political perspective.

    Ask yourself how George Bush was elected twice. His team knew how to play the media and make the elections about little things revolving around personalities and how we like/don't like the candidates rather than about the issues or either candidate's ability to govern. Al Gore's sighs anyone? Kerry windsurfing?

    SO bear that in mind as the Palinalia continues to dribble out bit by bit. Dragging this kid to the convention in an intentional attempt to continue to distract and keep the story on nothing for as long as possible. Let's not respond to every little drip or drop as if the future of the Republic rests on it.

    It only does if we take our eye off the ball.

    No how. No way. No McCain.

  • Well, it is the GOP convention...

    ...so we can be sure shotguns will be allowed.

    BTW, if Bristol was already going to get married, why didn't they mention she had a fiancee right off? Seems that would have lightened things for the GOP considerably.

    Oh right--they just got the idea Saturday. Around when they realized they could send Levi to jail if he didn't go along.

  • This election is about issues, not personalities

    Please focus on the issues, if you know what these are, not on personalities.

  • @Xlp Thlplylp

    The personalities became the issues once the McCain-Palin camp started using them as political props.

    If the McCain-Palin camp is going to sing the praises of Bristol for "choosing to keep her baby" then it's only fair to respond to it.

    If you can't stand the heat...

  • Levi Johnston

    Proud f***in' redneck, and dumbshit daddy to a new generation of degenerate Alaskan white trash.

  • Good thing Palin's a lifelong Member of the NRA...

    There will be plenty of shotguns available for the wedding.

  • The RNC Convention Has Become a Freak Show

    In other news, a second VP debate has been added...to be moderated by Jerry Springer.

  • Denouement

    Now if some dedicated young liberal woman were to seduce Mr. Redneck Hockey Puck during his visit to the big city, that would pretty much be the end of the Palins' executive aspirations.

    Just sayin . . .

  • Redneck wedding....

    C'mon boy, you gonna marry that girl and make her honest, or I'll fill you with buckshot...

  • Self-control

    It is a sad spectacle, and perhaps the worst VP choice in history from an actualy quality standpoint. But "poor white trash" jokes and the like are not going to help anything. This is the kind of stuff that drives some voters away from the Democratic party. We need every vote. How about keeping that in mind?

  • Levi's words to live by:

    "Born on a mountain, raised in a cave, truckin' and fuckin' are all I crave."

  • Redneck Soap Opera Episode 2

    Yeeeeee-hawwww!

    And from what we know of him from his webpage, he certainly seems like the sort of proper gentleman who was already planning a quiet life together with sweet Bristol when this pregnancy came as a complete surprise.

    God, I would love to know how much these kids know about contraception. I already know how they feel about abstinence.

  • Oh Please

    McCain made sure personality and her "private" life, and decisions therein, were the main reason to vote for her. This was a sop to the religious right.

    But every detail of the narrative has gone Bizarro at the slightest bit of scrutiny.

    They based this on lies, and this is what happens to liars. And if the GOP were on the other end of this, they'd have hammered the Palins till their brains exploded.

    So no pathetic, hypocritical, prissy pleas for consideration. This is the political world now. The only way to turn it back into something else is to play dirty till the ones who made it this way, the GOP, are gone. Not to be nice. Tell me what the GOP ever did that deserved "nice" treatment now!

  • PS

    I was born and raised in the south(my family goes back to 1800 there) and half my family is "redneck". I can make as many snarky remarks about the piggy-skinned folk as I like.

  • The Dixie Chicks have a clever tune entitled "White Trash Wedding"

    And, yes, it is as just as funny and as appropriate as you might imagine.

  • I have never seen more hilarity generated by a vacuous VP choice in my life.

    Is this shit for REAL?

  • So Bristol

    When are you and that Levi boy gonna jump the broom?

  • I'm imagining that the poor li'l redneck's balls are now the size of English peas

    and are retracted about up to his Adam's apple.

    Really, I'm serious. He may want to fuck people up when they mess with them, but this little goober is going to be paraded around every tv network and cable outlet in America for the next few days.

  • I imagine Bristol and Levi already have seven-figure offers...

    Offers to tell their stories and appear on strange TV shows, and tour kooky little churches, and such.

  • Speaking of low information people

    Around when they realized they could send Levi to jail if he didn't go along.

    Exactly how could they send him to jail?

    Of which fact are you ignorant, that the age of consent in Alaska is 16, or that the number 17 is greater than 16?

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