Should Sarah Palin Forgive Levi Johnston?

In the wake of rumors of a reconciliation between Levi Johnston and Bristol Palin, Johnston is making a public and, ahem, heartfelt apology to the Palin family, particularly Sarah. Whether this public self-flagellation will mean anything to the Palins remains to be seen, but it’s big of him to make the effort. I guess. Or maybe just the politically savvy thing to do, all things considered.

From People:

“Last year, after Bristol and I broke up, I was unhappy and a little angry. Unfortunately, against my better judgment, I publicly said things about the Palins that were not completely true,” he tells PEOPLE exclusively. “I have already privately apologized to Todd and Sarah. Since my statements were public, I owe it to the Palins to publicly apologize.”

Johnston and his sister Mercede appeared on CBS’ Early Show in 2009 to fight claims that their family is “white trash” and other alleged Palin lies.

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photo of teenaged lovers bristol palin, who is daughter of former vice president nominee sarah palin, and levi johnston, who posed naked for playboy magazine

Word on the street from CNN to CBS is that Bristol Palin and Levi Johnston are reuniting for the purpose of “co-parenting their child.”

From Us Magazine:

Although Bristol Palin and Levi Johnston broke off their engagement in March 2009, an insider tells UsMagazine.com that relations have thawed considerably between the young parents to son Tripp, nearly 18 months.

“Bristol and Levi are still very close,” a source close to Bristol, 19, tells Us. The eldest daughter to former Alaskan Gov. Sarah Palin claimed in the June issue of Harper’s Bazaar that ex Johnston, 20, was “a stranger to me.”

But the source reveals, “Now that Mama Palin is out of the picture and Bristol is on her own in Anchorage, they spend more time together than most people think.”

Adds the source: “Levi even stays overnight. I even think they are back together.”

[Bristol] Palin told RadarOnline.com, “Levi and me are co-parents of Tripp and we are actively working on being good parents together.”

Added Johnston, “Nothing is more important to me or Bristol than our son Tripp. We are taking active steps to work cooperatively in raising him, and in sharing the joys — and challenges — of parenthood.”

Now, there are a couple of ways of approaching this very interesting development.  Some are attributing this as a snub directed at Mama Bear Palin.  I, however, have a different theory.  Maybe it’s even a conspiracy theory.

Okay, Sarah Palin is vehemently against comprehensive sex education in lieu of an abstinence-based curriculum.  Fine.  Great.  Then her daughter gets pregnant at seventeen, pretty much disproving her point.  As John McCain’s running mate, Palin made sure to publicly include Johnston in anything that would show her support of family values.  Bristol and Levi break up, Levi talks to the media (and you know a lot of it has got to be true … I mean, between pillow talk and just spending time with the family, Levi Johnston probably knows more about the Palin family dynamic—and Sarah Palin herself—than most), and Sarah Palin looks like an idiot yet again
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Wanna See Levi’s Johns(t)on?

APTOPIX Republican ConventionI don’t. 

In fact, I couldn’t be less interested in seeing something that was stuck in something that ultimately emerged from Sarah Palin’s vagina. 

Two female-oriented magazines, Playgirl (which I thought to be now-defunct) and Unzipped Media have both offered slots (bad pun, I know) to insert (there I go again) Levi’s johnson into their centerfolds. 

A spokesperson for Levi, who was identified as his bodyguard, stated that it wouldn’t be ruled out, especially if it would get Levi “out there.”  Levi’s words. 

There are, obviously, more ways than exposing your penis to the free world to put yourself “out there” and expect respectable notoriety thereafter.  For example, being an upstanding father.  Or rising above the Sarah Palin stigma and becoming more than just another fixed part of a rumored dysfunctional family. 

I see another Jon Gosselin emerging from the shadows and to be quite frank, it frightens me.  Why some individuals would sacrifice everything by doing practically nothing to shine for fourteen and a half minutes of fame is beyond my meager comprehension. 

Maybe I’m old-fashioned; maybe I’m a “prude” as some would say, but on the whole, realistically speaking, what is this really supposed to accomplish for Levi Johnston aside from flexing his moneymaker and being a subject to a more-than-likely undereducated audience who could really give a crap’s hat less what the boy has to offer beside a bulging package?

To be quite frank: I’m pretty disgusted.  Not because an individual is willing to pose nude for a widely-circulated publication, but because they’re doing it for fame and fame only.  They’re doing it to rise above the Exxon-Valdez colored ashes and to supersede the shadow of the imploded career of a disgraced Republican politician. 

To Levi, a man-child that I at one point had respect for and who has illicitly disappointed me with his famewhore-mongering – bad news, dude.  Bad, bad news.  Using your tool as a marketing tool is never the way to go in order to gain a respectable understanding by the general populace.



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