Johnston speaks on Bristol Palin, baby and Otter Hockey team

Plagiarized by Richard Cranium Field and Stream

Levi Johnston, who's having a baby with Gov. Sarah Palin's daughter, can't believe all the things he's hearing.

No, he wasn't held against his will on the campaign trail. No, he's not being forced into a shotgun wedding with 17-year-old Bristol Palin. Yes, he did want to play on the IOHA’s Otter hockey team

"None of that's true," Johnston, 18, said in a rare interview with Field and Stream. "We both love each other. We both want to marry each other. And that's what we are going to do. Unfortunately, I can’t play with the Otters. My hockey career is now ruined.”

Standing in the driveway of his family home in this small Alaska town wearing an cheap replica Otter jersey, Johnston spoke about the rumors swirling around him.

The soft-spoken teenager discussed his relationship with Palin and how life has changed with fatherhood fast approaching and a hockey career down the tubes. He agreed to talk despite the presidential campaign's advice in the days following Gov. Sarah Palin's nomination to avoid the media.

"They're not telling me anything right now," Johnston said as he checked his Blackberry. "It's pretty chill. Besides, the McCain-Palin campaign is over. McCain is older than Grandpa Munster and Mrs. Palin is dumber than a fencepost.”

Not surprisingly, Johnston was a little shocked when he learned about Bristol's pregnancy, because he thought there was only one immaculate conception every 2500 years. The baby is due Dec. 18. and they are hoping to delay it until Dec. 25. Johnston has dropped out of high school to take a job on the North Slope oil fields as an apprentice electrician and implied it is not out of the question that he might join Tommy Muthig’s construction team in the near future.

Johnston hinted he's expecting a boy, but he declined to discuss baby names except to say Jesus is in the running.

"I'm looking forward to having him," he said. "I'm going to take him hunting and fishing. He'll be everywhere with me. I plan on duct taping him to my side.”

Johnston, a Wasilla heartthrob, said he wanted to set the record straight.
For starters, he said his much-maligned MySpace page was a joke — the one that claimed he said: "I'm a ... redneck," and "I don't want kids." Johnston said his friends created the page a few years ago and he had nothing to do with it, although he found it to be real funny, just like the Otter blog.

Johnston said he has dated Palin since his freshman year in high school and had great “fun” every weekend.

"We were planning on getting married a long time ago with or without the kid," he said. "That was the plan from the start. We would talk about it while we smoked, drank and killed animals.”

While Johnston provided few details about next summer's wedding, the planning has started: cousin It will likely be his best man, and he has asked two hockey buddies, Alan Nolet and Marty Heim, to be groomsmen.

Nolet doesn't think anyone pressured Johnston into marriage.

"If he thought it wasn't the right thing to do he probably wouldn't do it," he said. “We are hunting buddies so I would know. I also commend him for going after a younger girl.”

Johnston is an avid hunter. He's dark haired, tall and muscular, sports a bit of stubble and drives a red Chevy Silverado truck. He'd be the perfect cover for Field & Stream.

He's bagged bears, sheep, elk, and caribou. (editor’s note..probably at Safeway meat counter). Some of the antlers are scattered about his yard. Last July on a caribou hunt he lost a "promise" ring that Palin had given him. He said he decided to tattoo her name on the finger and not bother with more rings because he'd just lose them anyway. He also said he wanted to get the NRA logo tattooed on his ass.

Johnston said he wasn't forced to campaign with Palin's mother, the dimwitted governor. Bristol Palin invited him and Johnston jumped at the chance. It was a whirlwind experience for Johnston, who was seated with the Palins at the Republican National Convention.

"At first, I was nervous," he said. "Then I was like, 'Whatever.' These people put their pants on one leg at a time and load their guns one shell at a time.”

While Nolet said his friend is a celebrity now, Johnston said it hasn't changed him.
"I'm still the same old boy," said Johnston. "I'm just a workin' man and a high school dropout.”

And now he's also about to become a family man living in a trailer park.

"We're up for it. I'm excited to have my first kid. I think we want six total so I can have my own team. It's going to be a lot of hard work but we can handle it."

Otter GM Aden Nolet, who was invited to the wedding, said he was sorry to hear Johnston wasn't going to play for the Otters. But he said he believes Johnston, a talented hockey player, will find his way.

"He's a tough kid," Nolet said. "He's taking everything in stride but he should have kept it in his pants.”

What about Johnston's politics?

The young man said he wasn't an expert on politics by any stretch. Asked about Barack Obama, he replied: "I don't know anything about him. I don’t read the papers and haven’t picked up a book for ten years. He seems like a good guy. I like him but I’d rather see Scott Gomez win the Cup with the Rangers this year."

Johnston is still rooting for John McCain and Sarah Palin.

"I just hope she wins," he said. "She's my future mother-in-law and she will be a real bitch if she loses."