Grifter wedding goes wrong
by digby
The next time you see John McCain or any other Republican talking about “judgment” and responsibility, think about this:
The eleventh hour cancellation of Bristol Palin’s Memorial Day Weekend wedding left mom Sarah with little alternative but to go ahead with the already planned reception – although significantly her daughter chose not to attend.
The bizarre set of circumstances mean’t that while the former vice presidential candidate hung out with her daughter’s ex-fiance and ex-Marine [and medal of honor recipient] Dakota Meyer and his family in Kentucky, Bristol made a very public showing of her non-attendance by posting a series of photos of her enjoying a ‘weekend getaway’ back in Alaska with her best friend who is an exotic model.
Sarah Palin had taken to Facebook last Monday to reveal that her 24-year-old daughter would not be marrying Meyer as previously planned just days after accusations emerged that the 26-year-old Marine had covered up a ‘secret wife’ he had married at 19 and then legally divorced.
Despite the cancellation, the former vice presidential candidate confirmed a celebration would still be held on May 23 and both families would be gathering for a barbecue at Meyer’s Kentucky farm.
‘This Kentucky farm is a beautiful setting for our friends and families to gather in celebration of life itself this Memorial Day weekend,’ wrote Palin.
‘Nothing is more precious to us than family, faith and America’s freedom.’
But the ‘celebration of life’ appears to have quite heated at one point as this photograph showing Sarah Palin raising her finger in what appears to be a heated exchange with the man who was supposed to have become her son-in-law.
Days earlier Meyer had put out his own statement on Facebook page around the same time as the elder Palin and bearing striking similarities to her message, suggesting a concerted public relations offensive.
But if both sides were supposed to be maintaining a united front someone forgot to tell Bristol
She was absent from the ‘celebration of life’ in Kentucky and instead spent the weekend posting photos of her enjoying a ‘getaway weekend’ back home in Atlanta.
Sarah Palin makes a big issue of her family’s supposed belief in traditional Christian family values, but after the embarassment of a cancelled wedding Bristol’s choice of friend for her trip – ‘exotic model and video vixen’ Marina Lupas – was the last thing the family’s tarnished image needed.
Lupas aggressively markets herself as an ‘exotic model’ on the internet, and her public photos leave little doubt about what she means. She and Bristol are long time friends and they spent the weekend enjoying the outdoors and driving an RV.
Photos from the family barbecue in Kentucky suggest Bristol didn’t miss much with only about 100 people showing up.
Although in attendance was Fox News correspondent Rick Leventhal who tweeted photos of himself with both Palin and Meyer.
She would have been one heart attack away from running the world.