...namely, that she's a phony.
I frankly can't wait to read more in Levi Johnston's tell-all interview in the most recent issue of Vanity Fair, but in the meantime, the AP article excerpts are enough to fill me in on what, honestly, we really already know.
More at the jump.
For starters, she wanted to protect the sparkly-clean Palin name by hiding her grandson's being born to her unmarried teenaged daughter via adoption (from the AP link above; bolding is mine):
Levi Johnston, the father of Sarah Palin's grandchild, said the former Republican vice presidential candidate wanted to adopt his child so that people wouldn't know her 17-year-old daughter was pregnant. In an interview with Vanity Fair, Johnston said Palin had a plan to deal with Bristol's pregnancy.
"Sarah kept mentioning this plan. She was nagging — she wouldn't give it up. She would say, 'So, are you gonna let me adopt him?' We both kept telling her we were definitely not going to let her adopt the baby. I think Sarah wanted to make Bristol look good, and she didn't want people to know that her 17-year-old daughter was going to have a kid,"...
Or rather, Sarah wanted to make Sarah look good is more like it, methinks.
And the bit I bolded below made me laugh somewhat. I guess being a complete star****er runs in the by-wedlock family:
Johnston, 19, lived in the house for two months awaiting the birth of the baby, Tripp, who was born in December. The couple called off the wedding shortly after their son's birth.
Since then, Johnston has complained in national interviews that the Palins limited his access to the boy. He's also said he's pursuing a career as an actor or model.
But wait, there's more re: the seemingly-idyllic Palin household and governorship. According to Levi, I guess Sarah wasn't so thrilled about serving her great state of Alaska:
When Palin returned to Alaska following McCain's unsuccessful run for president, she was different, Johnston said.
"Sarah was sad for a while. She walked around the house pouting. I had assumed she was going to go back to her job as governor, but a week or two after she got back she started talking about how nice it would be to quit and write a book or do a show and make 'triple the money.'
"She would blatantly say, "I want to just take this money and quit being governor," Johnston said.
You mean this staunch Republican was just in it for the MONEY???!!! You don't say!!! Tell me it isn't so, Bozo!
And I guess the Moose Killa from Wasilla bit was just a put-on as well, according to the master hunter's would-have-been son-in-law:
He also claims Palin is not the hockey mom or outdoorswoman she claims to be. He said she rarely attended her oldest son's hockey games, and asked Levi how to shoot a gun.
"She says she goes hunting and lives off animal meat — I've never seen it," Johnston said.
What more can I say, except--hey, Sarah!