Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi Rumored to be interested in Bristol Palin

Full disclosure: I am the originator of the aforementioned rumor. But really, is the idea of Silvio Berlusconi and Bristol Palin as a couple really so far fetched? If you think about it, the pairing actually makes a lot of sense. Surely by now you’ve heard that Berlusconi’s wife is divorcing him because she believes he’s been having an affair with an 18-year-old lingerie model, Noemi Letizia from Naples? (His version is that he attended her 18th birthday party and gave her an expensive necklace simply because he happened to be in Naples, and knew her father) No Italian news story- not earthquakes, volcanoes, Italy’s seemingly semi-annual elections, or even the installation of a new pontiff at the Vatican receives as much news coverage as Berlusconi’s alleged affair. And rightfully so- Silvio’s affair with the buxom teenager is a very, very important event. O.K. so maybe its not so important, but it is a great story, isn’t it? Why the hell doesn’t anything this interesting happen in the U.S.? Oh yeah, Lewinsky. Still, Hillary didn’t leave Bill though, so that story is still way behind this one.

According to the Italian newspaper La Republica, Berlusconi first met Letizia at a New Years Eve bash Berlusconi hosted last year. Supposedly Silvio saw her photo in a magazine, found her telephone number and dialed her directly to invite her to the party. Super Silvio supposedly invited 30 other young, attractive single women to this party as well. Good old Silvio. So what about Silvio and Bristol? Bristol is on the cover of this week People magazine wearing her graduation cap and gown and posing with her 5 month old baby, Tripp. (Tripp’s aunts and uncles names are Trigg, Track, Willow and Pipper for those of you scoring along at home) Most of the pronouncements she makes in the interview are only slightly less inane than the kinds of crap Berlusconi comes up with, so they would probably be intellectually compatible. We know Silvio likes 18 year olds. We also know that Silvio is now single, and so is Bristol. (her former fiancé Levi and her split up, in case you don’t follow such things as closely as I do) Berlusconi has a media empire. Bristol likes to pose for photo shoots and give interviews. Then of course there are the right wing political ties. Don’t tell me that they couldn’t form some kind of right wing axis of weasles.