The response to Bristol bonker Levi Johnston is absolutely surreal!

Help! I cannot get my mind around this. Here is an 18-year-old ne'er-do-well who knocked up the governor's 16-year-old daughter by having sex with her with no protection. And here is presidential candidate John McCain buddying up to this dope as if he had discovered a cure for cancer or started a home for handicapped children. (There is another photo of McCain hugging the little punk, but I couldn't find a copy quickly.)

They invited the guy who committed this sin to their convention!

What gives? I would have thought this would be seen as a horrible infraction of the "abstinence only" rules Barbie wants to impose on everyone else's family. It is simply not a Good Thing, at 18, to make a 16-year-old girl pregnant, and not just any 16-year-old girl, no, this was the frackin' governor's frackin' daughter!

But no. Instead of being criticized or punished, this lout is given the full Red Carpet Treatment, including a chat with McCain, a known womanizer himself, and the two of them are praised to the skies. Their bastard child is a "blessed gift from God". She made a "courageous choice" by deciding not to abort the child and be dispatched straightaway to Hell.

Holy Hannah. This is just too psychotic for me. Is it really happening?

that would be statutory rape according to Alaska law.

16 is the age of consent and it isn't statutory rape unless the age difference is three years.

Hence a 15 year old making it with an 18 year old would be statutory rape, but the minor has to be under 16.

Edit Link: http://www.aardvarc.org/rape/states/akrp.shtml

Check out: Sec. 11.41.438. Sexual abuse of a minor in the third degree.

Minor is 16 and adult is 18 or older AND is at least three years older than minor.

A bit hard to read, it seems to be saying two things at once.

"being 18 years of age or older, the offender engages in sexual contact with a person who is 16 or 17 years of age and at least three years younger than the offender, and the offender occupies a position of authority in relation to the victim."

How can someone be 18, have sex with a 16 or 17 year old, and then also be three years older than the minor at the same time?

Here's a link I found.

http://blog.laborlawtalk.com/2006/11/07/alaska-age-of-consent-laws

(a) An offender commits the crime of sexual abuse of a minor in the third degree if ... (2) being 18 years of age or older, the offender engages in sexual penetration with a person who is 16 or 17 years of age and at least three years younger than the offender, and the offender occupies a position of authority in relation to the victim ...

(a) An offender commits the crime of sexual abuse of a minor in the fourth degree if ... (2) being 18 years of age or older, the offender engages in sexual contact with a person who is 16 or 17 years of age and at least three years younger than the offender, and the offender occupies a position of authority in relation to the victim."*

Glad you're not my lawyer.


*All emphases added.

was probably presented to him as an alternative to jail & a public life-long sex-offender status.

I doubt Levi had a choice in the marriage part. I'd be scared if were him.

I doubt Levi had a choice in the marriage part. I'd be scared if were him.

Can you imagine having to deal with that mother-in-law?

The moral is: USE CONDOMS!!

They can not only save your life, they can save your sanity.

It's a comment on an article on the Huffington Post.

Caption: "Don't worry, sonny, you can dump her in a few years when you meet a gal with REAL monney!"

geeeesh..

This is the first I've ever heard this. Link?

this has to be causing a great amount of pain for the fundies (something I certainly would encourage). This is everything they think is wrong and sinful and yet they are being asked, forced actually to accept it wholly without question. As hard as it is for us to wrap our minds around that think what it must be doing to them. Add to that the fact that women are not supposed to be in charge of anything and you got yourself a real mind clusterfuck.

Encourage them to think about this, ask them how this works. Before long we just may see those heads exploding. They are either against the "sin" or they are for the "sin". They can't have it both ways and maintain any kind of superior moral stance. That could just break their strangle hold on this country.

I doubt that dismissing some of their own 'rules' is hard for them to do at all. They don't require logic... just cues / instruction from their leaders.

I was hungry and you did not feed me, I was thirsty and you gave me no drink, I was naked and you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison you did not visit me, and the hypocrit when Lord did we not do these things, Jesus when you did this to the least of my people you did this unto me. Jesus was a liberal

It's part of the psychosis of what they believe (I know--I have extended family who are fundies). They can screw around, get knocked up or get abortions, be addicted to drugs--none of that matters. They only pounce on outsiders who do this.

It's not doing anything to them, and they have no problem accepting it. That's part of what makes the fundies so fucked up.

Plain and simple. Somebody posted a great response to this issue the other day on DU. Talking about how when a poor inter city minority teenager your are looked at differently for getting pregnant than if you are a middle or upper class white female. It is hypocrisy.

Pontificate much? Neither of these two are running for any office so why the smack down?

Palin's support for both "abstinence only" and non-abstainer Levi. McCain making a point of validating Levi by chatting with him as if he had accomplished something other than screwing a young girl and knocking her up.

In other settings what the kids have done is denounced, not praised, by supporters of these same two people, both of whom are running for office, by the way.

It's the hypocrisy.

I seen none on the kids part.

Sure, take it easy on the mom until she's 18, but there is absolutely zero reason not to tear into Levi.

and nod and in a few years he'll get a quiet divorce and an even quieter large check.

The sad thing is, they forgot to tell him to at least ACT like the loves Bristol. Poor Bristol and poor baby.

I once thought "Barack Obama" was an odd name.

But, it has made it easier to deal with a family who named their kids Yodel, Tripod, Wrench, Turd and Slingshot.

Didn't know they had a Bonker, but it seems a new one is peeking out from under the sofa about every 20 minutes.

Someone needs to make a "What's your Palin Family Name" generator, which tells you your name and who your parents might be.

After all, to have the brainwashed repub rabble fall in line, they have to see their Leerless Feeder accept the punk. If McCain embraces him, and Palin's family trots him around like the ideal future son-in-law, then everything's all right. Right?

Do as you're told...accept...believe...

John McCain is in no way, shape, or form "leerless" :rofl:

He does seem to be a feeder, though.. of total B.S.

He's very...leerful!
:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

that blossomed while he was married to the woman who waited for him during his POW years.

He kept groping his arm, over and over. Too weird.

They have been treated like the heroic exemplary teen couple of the year. They are our new youths mentors setting an example of justification of teenage unprotected sex. They are not to be pity for their indiscretion, but congratulated. What are your kids to think when the daughter of the potential Vice President of the United States and her teen lover are glorified on nation television. Wouldn't you have thought that Sarah Palin would have declined to protect his child from being pushed into the national spotlight? These people seem to know no shame.

I said, "him" instead of "her" but when I think about it she appears to wear the pants in the family. She comes on like a tough talking hussy while he holds the baby like some kind of prop in a sitcome.