Tuesday, September 02, 2008

Appalachia, the Ozarks, and evidently Alaska

Levi Johnston's mom, commenting on the marriage plans of the children, said that they had planned to get married all along and that the pregnancy was a "bonus."

There are certain attitudes towards life that we have come to identify, fairly or unfairly, with hillbillies. Mrs. Johnston shows that they are alive and well in Alaska. Levi, a fine strapping youth, is not evidently attending high school. His mother says she doesn't know whether he graduated. We deduce that he's not planning on college. Apart from hockey, there's no evidence of an ability to support a wife. Yet he will be trotted out in St. Paul at the convention for everyone to cheer.

The Republicans must be just busting their buttons with pride.

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