Will McCain’s next Hail Mary pass be “Here Comes the Bride”?
The not-always-reliable UK Sunday Times has a bit of too-good-to-check gossip from Washington, D.C. correspondent Sarah Baxter:
In an election campaign notable for its surprises, Sarah Palin, the Republican vice- presidential candidate, may be about to spring a new one — the wedding of her pregnant teenage daughter to her ice-hockey-playing fiancé before the November 4 election.
Inside John McCain’s campaign the expectation is growing that there will be a popularity boosting pre-election wedding in Alaska between Bristol Palin, 17, and Levi Johnston, 18, her schoolmate and father of her baby. “It would be fantastic,” said a McCain insider. “You would have every TV camera there. The entire country would be watching. It would shut down the race for a week.”
There is already some urgency to the wedding as Bristol, who is six months pregnant, may not want to walk down the aisle too close to her date of delivery. She turns 18 on October 18 . . .
. . . McCain is expected to have a front-row seat at Bristol’s wedding and to benefit from the outpouring of goodwill that it could bring. “What’s the downside?” a source inside the McCain campaign said. “It would be wonderful. I don’t know that there has ever been a pre-election wedding before.”
In the past couple of months alone, the McCain camp has done their best to insert their candidate in the middle of a war between Russia and Georgia, planned relief efforts in the wake of a potentially disastrous hurricane in Louisiana, and a major Wall Street financial crisis.
If they’re willing to game these serious events (and their respective human victims) for selfish political gain, I guess it’s no surprise that they’d manipulate the lives of a couple of teenagers for the same purpose.
Tags: Bristol Palin, McCain, palin, WH 2008
September 28th, 2008 at 7:58 am
[...] I heard a rumor early this morning that the McCain Campaign plans to “shut down the race for a week” by [...]
September 28th, 2008 at 10:04 am
You quote: “It would be fantastic,” said a McCain insider. “You would have every TV camera there. The entire country would be watching. It would shut down the race for a week.”
It truly would be fantastic. Just think: A chance for the United States of America to celebrate unwed teenage pregnancy and old-fashioned shotgun weddings. Traditional family values, Republican (meaning American) style. And it would take our minds off of Iraq, Afghanistan, debt, bailouts, energy, and health care. We worry too much about that sort of stuff, anyway. And don’t forget, John McCain was a POW.
Hey, speaking of shutting down the race, wonder if they will invite Barack and Michelle? That would put him in a difficult position, wouldn’t it? He could keep campaigning and look like a snob, or go and waste valuable time. Of course, he could regain some momentum by portraying his trip to Alaska as giving him foreign policy experience — he will be close to Russia, after all. Considering his dilemma from all sides, I think he will probably go.
CMcC
September 28th, 2008 at 10:27 pm
Has this boy been charged with statutory rape? If not, why not?
September 29th, 2008 at 8:17 am
[...] Needlenose: In an election campaign notable for its surprises, Sarah Palin, the Republican vice- presidential candidate, may be about to spring a new one — the wedding of her pregnant teenage daughter to her ice-hockey-playing fiancé before the November 4 election. [...]