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Posted by Dan Savage on Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 6:47 PM

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When's the wedding?

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1
right after they figure out trig's daycare.
Posted by cay on December 5, 2008 at 6:59 PM
2
Maybe they're saving it for 2012?
Posted by Ariel on December 5, 2008 at 7:06 PM
3
What? You're holding your breath?
Posted by Calpete on December 5, 2008 at 7:11 PM
4
Republicans are like an unhealed scab to Democrats...who are like children constantly playing with it....though they are childed, it will go away soon, they cannot control themselves.
Posted by Hurt Me A Little, So I Don't Hurt Myself A Lot on December 5, 2008 at 7:13 PM
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Who are these people? They're not celebrities! Why should we care?
Posted by NapoleonXIV on December 5, 2008 at 7:14 PM
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The guy should go to jail for knocking up and ruining such a hot piece of young ass. Her big ol titays will be sagging down to her belly by the time she's 25. I'd like to see more pics of her kickballs though.
Posted by Lesbian Teacher on December 5, 2008 at 7:20 PM
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Who photoshopped the shotgun out?
Posted by Mr. Poe on December 5, 2008 at 7:38 PM
8
Their first wedding is next year. Their second is in 2012.
Posted by PedestrianMe on December 5, 2008 at 7:47 PM
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@8, that's a sadly likely scenario, based on the stats. oh well.
Posted by ellarosa on December 5, 2008 at 7:56 PM
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Are you jealous because your gay, immoral ass can't do the same?
Posted by prop 8 on December 5, 2008 at 7:59 PM
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@10 HaHa Ha, good one ho-phobie! Your so Smarft! ass wipe

@6 titties like that sag by the age of 22 anyways, most of my friends with DD were pointing to the ground by the age of 18 even. And kickballs? ewww

I second #8, that strategy would have the most play. You know how the "base" always needs to be "energized".

Now I'm going to energize my base
Posted by cici on December 5, 2008 at 8:19 PM
12
I heard they were still holding out for a Rose Garden ceremony...
Posted by COMTE on December 5, 2008 at 8:31 PM
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My bet is Levi will sign up to fight in Afghanistan. The Taliban, evil as they are, are straight forward and possibly survivable. His future Mother in Law...
Posted by Zander on December 5, 2008 at 9:00 PM
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Sluts and shitheads. Generation after generation.

The story of the Palins. The story of America.
Posted by Sluts on December 5, 2008 at 9:02 PM
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anyone going to step forward with a comment like this?

"They're humans. Real human beings! Think about that as you cut them to shreds with your mean and cunty comments..."
Posted by justaskin' on December 5, 2008 at 10:17 PM
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Yup, more proof of the inherent hatred and vitriol among liberals.

Conservatives have enough class to leave a poltician's family out of aim of any mud. Not so you libs. You'll take down anyone in pursuit of the hateful and destructive ideology that is liberalism.

Bristol Palin is to be admired for keeping her child rather than having it ground up in an abortion mill.
Posted by Lord Basil on December 5, 2008 at 11:06 PM
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Aren't the liberals supposed to support an idea like marriage in all respects? What makes you assume that their marriage will fail? Is it smug, conclusory, pride or something else? Grow up, Savage.
Posted by thestranger=lies on December 5, 2008 at 11:09 PM
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Isn't she supposedly due by now??
Posted by apres_moi on December 5, 2008 at 11:16 PM
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Soooo, does she even look pregnant? Or is Trig really hers?
Posted by idaho on December 5, 2008 at 11:19 PM
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Yeah, her mom ain't getting anywhere in politics. Bristol in 2028!
Posted by idaho on December 5, 2008 at 11:22 PM
21
There is no happy ending here. Why not let it be a private not-so-happy, ongoing tragedy?

These two teenagers are victims, not the enemy, Dan.
Posted by maybe true love will conquer, eh? on December 5, 2008 at 11:31 PM
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gay buttfucking buttsexxx
Posted by gay buttfucking buttsexxx on December 6, 2008 at 12:12 AM
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See, liberals will say mean things about people whose choices they may not agree wtih...and then let them do it anyway. Get married, don't get married--it's still their choice.

Conservatives on the other hand, don't want to let people do things they don't agree with--such as gay marriage.

Here endeth the lesson.
Posted by Tiktok on December 6, 2008 at 12:22 AM
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Levi's probably a stupid asshole, but he sure is pretty.
Posted by Ed on December 6, 2008 at 2:00 AM
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Conservatives have enough class to leave a poltician's family out of aim of any mud. Not so you libs. You'll take down anyone in pursuit of the hateful and destructive ideology that is liberalism.


(chortle!)

That's awesome, dude.

Normally, we wouldn't care about who knocked up whom, but why is it that "family values" candidates are exempt from any consideration of how effective those values are?

Seriously, think about it: A prominent abstinence (Pam Stenzel) advocate proudly proclaims among her peers that it doesn't matter whether their program actually works. An entire political movement is built up to persecute homosexuals. "Family values" is the repeated appeal for these and other half-wit ideas. And then, facing questions about the nature of her own pregnancy, a Republican party celebrity pushes her pregnant, teenage daughter into the spotlight in lieu of any better response, and, what, nobody's supposed to say anything?

And when did conservatives develop this class, anyway? Given how much we heard about the Clintons' family issues through the '90s, and even during the recent presidential cycle, it's not exactly easy to take such statements at face value.

If families aren't a political issue, conservatives need to stop making them an issue.
Posted by bd on December 6, 2008 at 2:52 AM
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all the DD experts here are full of shit - even the women

from experience, all is well for many years past 25

he is a stud - his underwear sold for charity would bring big time money - heads up Dan - my nose is twitching like crazy

I like these kids, they are universal - and all this catty crap is fucking shit is such drivel about they are victims - sounds like old maids from 1886 chatting about the horny young couple upstairs

Ma and Pa Palin got him a good job in the oil industry - all is well - according to plan

And Mr Young Stud gets all the nookie he wants, I doubt he is complaining at all

And they drink like fish in Alaska and smoke weed for breakfast ..... so what IS to complain ... and the State of Alaska has no major budget problems ....

Posted by B L M on December 6, 2008 at 5:22 AM
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Yeah, pick on her mom all you want, I'll even help you wipe the lipstick offa that pig. But leave the kids alone, she's not their fault. When your kid gets to be a teen, I'm sure you'd hope they had a little privacy, despite their famous, controversial dad(s). :)
Posted by Eva Hopkins on December 6, 2008 at 5:50 AM
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Republicans and their right wingnut friends insist other people's children be kept ignorant on birth and disease control. They also insist they are morally superior to everyone else because they believe a lot of nonsense. But reveal the true nature of what that ignorance and self righteousness results in and it's "leave OUR children alone". Fools.
Posted by Vince on December 6, 2008 at 6:39 AM
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@ Eva Hopkins & Others,

Liberals & Democrats did not put "the kids" (legally they're adults now) in the media spot light. Mummie & The Republicans did. Remember, the couple is supposed to bring in the "Pro-Life" vote. The Republicans all through the campaign pushed the "Moral Young Couple Does Right Thing; Knocked-Up Teenager & Boyfriend Keep Baby/Get Married". Democrats & Liberals are merely pointing out the hypocrisy of Republicans publicly lauding White unmarried teen parents, when previously demonizing non-White unmarried teen parents as "welfare whores".

p.s. The wedding will be on the 12th of Never, BTW. It was only a publicity stunt for the campaign. When 2012 roles around the Republicans will probably claim all the news coverage by the librul-biased left-wing media (which they invited by parading the couple around the RNC & waving them in front of every camera available) drove the couple apart.
Posted by Y.F. on December 6, 2008 at 6:39 AM
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@29: right on.

@21:

"These two teenagers are victims"

No, they're not. Their parents, supposedly good, god-fearing people who "brought their kids up right and with good moral values," are massive FAILs because the kids, rather than being "victims" of anything, gave in to what they supposedly should have known better than to do.
Posted by You're kidding, right? on December 6, 2008 at 8:07 AM
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"Conservatives have enough class to leave a poltician's family out of aim of any mud. Not so you libs. "

Oh Jesus. Are the conservatives going to try to rebrand themselves as noble victims? Granted, the conservative mindset has always been about being a victim, but at least they were never deluded enough to portray themselves as noble.

May I remind the noble conservative of the nasty treatment the Clintons - including the pre-teen Chelsea - received at your "noble" hands?

Stupid asswipes. Conservatives have held the species back for the last four thousand years. You think we'd evolve beyond them.
Posted by Whiny Conservative Victims on December 6, 2008 at 8:19 AM
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In todays NYT, Bill Ayers has an op-ed piece in which he explains that he was "unwillingly thrust upon the stage and asked to play a role in a profoundly dishonest drama." He goes on to say that "the character invented to serve this drama wasn't (him), not even close."

Can't the same be said for these two? The right casted them as the positive example, while Ayers was given the part of the negative character. The responsibility for such a casting lines with the Mary Matalin's of the world, not with these two young adults whose only "sin" was that they apparently enjoy "SECKS!"

Let 'em be. The election is, thankfully, over.
Posted by justsayin' on December 6, 2008 at 8:26 AM
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@32:

No, hypocrisy is the issue here. They were willingly "thrust" by her mother, who espoused abstinence. Can you not see the irony?

Ayers didn't come from a family that massively pushed for abstinence and values and then end up with a pregnant at 17 daughter. It's really pretty simple.

If I've read the press right, he should be convicted of statutory. Why is he not?
Posted by Sara's Moose Freinds on December 6, 2008 at 9:22 AM
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There's no denial and projection like republican denial and projection.
Posted by Nude Gingrich on December 6, 2008 at 9:41 AM
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#33

Irony??? God where do you live - what mommie has much to say about their kids fucking???

Christ, you are very sick.

Morality play from the left, how sickening. Maybe brand the baby so the whole world knows its Granny taught abstinence?

How fucking silly is the concept that one persons flaws accrue to their kids.

Only in the very controlling white middle class is this even possible. Then, mommie and daddy chart their kids entire lives and control with false love and money.

How about you being responsible for your screw ball parents baggage??

Get a clue. Iron my ass. Oh, iron my asshole. Oh irony my ass.

There.
Posted by Art in Spokane on December 6, 2008 at 9:45 AM
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the reason there are no police involved in the kids romance stuff is they are smarter than you.

Are you part of a New Age Puritan cult?
Posted by Eric on December 6, 2008 at 9:47 AM
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Just out of curiosity was there a point to that post? You know, other than you just being a jackass?
Posted by DW on December 6, 2008 at 10:04 AM
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"Conservatives have enough class to leave a poltician's family out of aim of any mud."

Hmm, South Carolina, 2000, BushCo destroyed McCain's candidacy with rumors about an illegitimate colored baby.
Posted by Rank Stranger on December 6, 2008 at 10:31 AM
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The mother is a whack job, not the kids. I think Levi figured out that he's not gettin' any more BJs from the betrothed young Ms. Palin... but give them some space to create whatever relationship (taxpayer supported or not) works for them!!
Posted by jackseattle on December 6, 2008 at 10:38 AM
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@37: thanks.

@35:

"Irony??? God where do you live - what mommie has much to say about their kids fucking???"

If you're going to preach morality and abstinence, don't trot out your unmarried teenage daughter as a shining example of your leadership.

And, personally, don't be an ass, you're surely not that blind.
Posted by Sara's Moose Friends on December 6, 2008 at 10:55 AM
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@38 who said anything about it being illegitimate? :p
Posted by Chris on December 6, 2008 at 10:55 AM
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#7 No shotgun needed. Grandma is hovering over them in a helicopter with a deer rifle.

#15 I don't think they read The Slog.

#16 True the conservatives had nothing but nice things to say about Michelle Obama.

#21 The two of them are racists. You might be able to find archives of their MySpace pages, that were taken down shortly after Palin was named running mate, but not before it was reported in the press.

Posted by elswinger on December 6, 2008 at 11:09 AM
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I really expect to hear about the "miscarriage" any day now. Since she actually delivered last spring.
Posted by Greg on December 6, 2008 at 11:28 AM
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You people are so, like, square. Sarah Palin is so, like, October 2008.
Posted by Cookie W. Monster on December 6, 2008 at 12:34 PM
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#40
You post something which is totally off base and expect praise?

Need to rethink your whole off base and rather stupid therory of the nice girl and her nice guy fucking as would be expected, getting pregnant, as would be expected ..... and all the rest. Are you trying for political revenge on the kids?

Your re write of life doesn't work. Thread bare poppy cock politics as well.

Actually - your posts are very up tight, counter to life as lived for eons of human existence, and too too Puritan as well .....

The kids will be prime, good genes and very pretty parents.

Granny Palin will parade them at every chance..... as do all Grannys.....oh, horror.
Posted by Art in Spokane on December 6, 2008 at 1:24 PM
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#39 - No, Levi is getting blow jobs and rim jobs. And she is getting her pussy eaten during gestation.

The guy knows his appeal and she will do not better. Ma nature is in control here folks. Hormones raging, good sex, lots of it, and I think a lot of you are freaked cause it ain't you.
Posted by Frankly Folks on December 6, 2008 at 1:30 PM
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@45,

If you don't see the hypocrisy in what Sara preaches to the rest of us and what she supports for her own family, there's no need to continue. We might as well agree to disagree and stop wasting bandwidth.
Posted by Sara's Moose Friends on December 6, 2008 at 1:53 PM
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#47

YOU need to reset - your theory is just not true.

Sarah, mommie, granny, whoever you view her as - HAS NOTHING TO DO with the very grown daughter's sex life - and certainly NOTHING to do with stud.

Nothing. Sorry to tell you something so obvious to the world.

Your political revenge pushed to her kids who are functioning adults is simply off the wall. It might make for knee jerk agreement in some circles, but, it is just illusion.

I can't see your point because it doesn't exist.

You are even off base in your Palin portryal - as a mom Palin is SUPPORTING her daughter in all the ways possible... so it seems by all accounts.

You are blinded. Unexpected babies crop up in ALL families, what happens nest is an important marker - Palin sems to be coping and supporting.

ALL to her credit, hard as that might be to admit.
Posted by Art in Spokane on December 6, 2008 at 2:48 PM
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I don't mind a good mother supporting her daughter. We have neither here.

But a good mother supporting her daughter WHO SHOULD NEVER BEEN IN THIS PLACE IN TH FIRST PLACE ON NATIONAL TV?

Hypocrite.

You really DON'T get, it, do you? I'm done. Monkeys don't reason.
Posted by By-Bye,Ignoramus on December 6, 2008 at 3:38 PM
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We're going to stop wasting bandwidth now. At least I am.

Posted by Sara's Moose Friends on December 6, 2008 at 3:50 PM
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#49

how quaint, in the modern USA world, you blame her mom for her getting pregnant? kids are having tons of sex at 14 and 15, millions of them, and they don't ask permission of any adults

just where do you live? Reason, your mind is locked into a curious place, detached from any facts or reason.

you are fixated by Palin, living thru her in some curious way ... but ... I am am a monkey now ... it is kinda charming, would prefer gremlin
Posted by Art the Gremlin on December 6, 2008 at 4:04 PM
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Nice, 51, since I'm a gay male.

You seem very quaint, too.

She preaches against teen sex and birth control, and then proudly shows off her pregnant unmarreid kid.

What of that screams "I'M NOT A HYPOCRITE" to you?

Unless you're funnin'. Palin's beehive is the last place I'd be checking for smarts.We're just sick of hypocrites, that's all.

Good night good subject and good day.

I just have to assume you're laughing too.
Posted by Sara'sBigUnfortunateHair on December 6, 2008 at 5:21 PM
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Art @51 et al: I agree with you that there's very little adults can do to stop their teenage offspring from having sex, short of locking them up. To me it follows that if we wish to discourage unwanted pregnancies we should ensure that kids receive accurate sex education with an emphasis on birth control methods and disease prevention, accompanied by easy access to said birth control methods.

This runs directly counter to Palin and other conservatives' stated preference for abstinence-only education, which proceeds from the premise that providing information about safe sex options and access to birth control will cause teens to have sex when they otherwise would not. Since you seem to disagree with this basic premise (that kids won't have sex if we don't tell them about how it works), would you agree that cases like Bristol's and the countless other unpublicized incidents of unplanned pregnancies among the very young are a strong argument against this approach? Which approach do you favor?

And lastly, do you see how someone like Dan, whose own family has rather pointedly been made a political issue, might be extra-sensitive to the very same political figures that wish to deny him the right to have the family he currently has insisting that their own families are "off limits," particularly after posing with those same "off limits" children under the bright lights of the convention hall? I'm not asking if you agree with Mr. Savage, I'm asking if you understand why he feels so strongly about this?
Posted by flamingbanjo on December 6, 2008 at 6:52 PM
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Wow! That's a lot of comments for four words and a photo! lol
Posted by kristinbell on December 6, 2008 at 11:36 PM
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#48

YOU need to reset - your theory is just not true.

Sarah, mommie, granny, whoever you view her as - HAS EVERYTHING DO with the very grown daughter's sex life - and certainly EVERYTHING to do with stud.

Nothing. Sorry to tell you something so obvious to the world.

Your political doublespeak pushed to her kids who are not functioning adults is simply off the wall. It might make for knee jerk agreement in some circles, but, it is just illusion.

I can't see your point because it doesn't exist.

You are even off base in your Palin portryal - as a mom Palin FAILED her daughter in all the ways possible... so it seems by all accounts.

You are blinded. Unexpected babies crop up in ALL families, especially when the parents don't teach their kids anything about sexuality except "don't do it".

NOTHING to her credit, hard as that might be to admit.
Posted by Fart in Spokane on December 7, 2008 at 11:33 AM
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Traditional values = woman uneducated, pregnant, tied to hearth and home. Go Palin 2012.
Posted by And it's a summer wedding on December 7, 2008 at 11:37 AM
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#55

sure sure - you mommie is directing your sex life

sure sure
Posted by Art on December 7, 2008 at 8:34 PM
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@57: Your mom is directing my sex life, Artie.
Posted by Art's Uncle on December 7, 2008 at 9:14 PM
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@33 I think some statutory statutes take the age-range of the people involved into consideration, so an 18 year old won't get dinked for doing his 16 year old girlfriend, but her 30-year old manager at the local soda shop will for doing her in the walk-in. Or at least they ought to.

Are there soda shops anymore?
Posted by idaho on December 8, 2008 at 9:17 AM

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