'So Are You Gonna Let Me Adopt Him?'

Not that we need a fuller picture of Sarah Palin -- and acknowledging the the source is a not-to-be son-in-law who was used, abused and discarded after the Alaska governor's run for the roses with John McCain crashed and burned -- but Levi Johnson's revelations in a forthcoming Vanity Fair article further reveal Palin to be a deeply screwed up woman.

After the 2008 election:

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." It was, to her, "not as hard." She would blatantly say, "I want to just take this money and quit being governor." She started to say it frequently, but she didn't know how to do it. When she came home from work, it seemed like she was more and more stressed out.

She was not exactly the super mom that she has portrayed herself as:

The Palin house was much different from what many people expect of a normal family, even before she was nominated for vice president. There wasn't much parenting in that house. Sarah doesn't cook, Todd doesn't cook -- the kids would do it all themselves: cook, clean, do the laundry, and get ready for school. Most of the time Bristol would help her youngest sister with her homework, and I'd barbecue chicken or steak on the grill.

And tried to hide Bristol's pregnancy after Levi knocked her up:

Sarah told me she had a great idea: we would keep it a secret -- nobody would know that Bristol was pregnant. She told me that once Bristol had the baby she and Todd would adopt him. That way, she said, Bristol and I didn't have to worry about anything. Sarah kept mentioning this plan. She was nagging -- she wouldn't give 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.

The adoption shtick has a somewhat familiar ring because of persistent rumors during and after the campaign that Baby T was not the issue of Mother S. And is it any wonder that Bristol became pregnant with a control-freak mother who measured her every breath?

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