Alaska Governor Sarah Palin hasn’t yet said anything publicly about her four-day-old grandson, Tripp Johnston, but she does want people to know that Tripp’s parents – Palin’s daughter Bristol and her fiancé Levi Johnston – are hard at work.
“You need to know that both Levi and Bristol are working their butts off to parent and going to school and working at the same time,” Palin told People in a phone message Wednesday. “They are certainly not high school dropouts.”
The former GOP V.P. candidate said she wanted to be clear about their continuing work toward high school degrees because suggesting otherwise “harms Bristol’s reputation and Levi’s reputation and their chances for good work opportunities.”
Sarah and Todd Palin became proud grandparents when their oldest daughter Bristol Palin gave birth to her first child, Tripp, with Levi Johnston.
Bristol Palin, 18, who gave birth Saturday, is intending to finish her high school degree through correspondence courses. Levi, also 18, has said that he left high school to enroll in an apprenticeship program training him as an electrician.
Sarah Palin said at the time that she hoped Levi would eventually earn his GED, adding that “I respect that Levi is out there working hard.”
We recommend that Levi follow the same career path as his mother, Sherry Johnston. Prescription drug dealing is a pretty recession-proof field.