Sarah Palin Will Have The Whole Family There Tomorrow

I actually think this is a pretty smart move:

ST. PAUL -- Levi Johnston, the boyfriend of the pregnant 17-year-old Bristol Palin, plans to join the family at the Republican Party's nomination here of mom and Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin for vice president.

The 18-year-old father-, husband- and celebrity-to-be left Alaska this morning to join the Palin family at the convention, according to his mother. Gov. Palin's speech is scheduled for Wednesday night.

The young parents-to-be haven't faced any pressure to wed, says the boy's mother, Sherry Johnston, reporting that the two teens planned to marry before it was known she was pregnant.

"This is just a bonus," Johnston said.

So much for family privacy: Imagine the attention this couple will confront in the media-filled Excel Energy Center arena where the hurricane-truncated convention is playing out.

The Palin family already has captured the attention of this hall, after Sarah Palin and husband Todd announced Monday that their daughter plans to have the baby and wed the father. They also asked the media to respect the young couple's privacy.

Good luck with that this week, as the small town hockey player makes his national TV debut.

Sarah Palin plans to address the convention Wednesday night, and it's traditional for the running mate's family to join the candidate on stage at the close of their acceptance speech.

Sherry Johnston allows some concern about all the attention her son will face. It's difficult enough for teenagers to cope with pregnancy, she says, without an entire nation watching. The Wasilla high school hockey team is not accustomed to some 19,000 spectators.

Now that the cat is out of the bag, and the media is even digging into this kid's MySpace page, you might as well bring him to St. Paul and show the whole family to the world. By doing this the Palen's are basically doing an "in your face" to the media and the Dems and are not backing down.

The don't call her "Sarah Barracuda" for nothing.

I also expect her to mention her coming grandchild in the speech and I bet the whole place explodes.

And just in case you were afraid the Dems hadn't stopped low enough yet, RedState reports this:

The Politico has received an opposition research file from the Alaska Democrats. You can read it in PDF here.

In the file, the Democrats have released Sarah Palin’s social security number minus the last four digits. Also tied to the information are her various home addresses.

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It is atrocious that the Democrats would not only seek out Sarah Palin’s social security number, but release it in opposition research to the press.

We need to know who did this. We also need to know what happened. We also need to know if it was used to bolster the Democrats’ opposition research.

Can you imagine the howls of outrage that would be heard from both the media and the Democrats if the GOP ever tried anything like this?