Going Rogue

The Palin chronicles

From the moment Sarah Palin was airlifted out of the Alaska hinterlands by John McCain and plopped onto the national stage, she's been telling anyone who will listen how poorly she's been treated by the media, the Democrats, the blogosphere, etc. After she did her part in scuttling McCain's already foundering campaign, she added to her list of personal persecutors the same McCain staffers who made her a household name in the first place. The conservative media have cheered on her personal pity party every step of the way, adamantly refusing to acknowledge that Sarah Palin -- perfect Sarah Palin, conservatism's hockey-mom messiah -- has done anything wrong.

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How do you think Alaskans feel, we were left for a book tour. Shannyn does the best job describing the Palin/Alaskan experience.

http://shannynmoore.wordpress.com/2009/11/17/letter-from-the-other-alaska/

The new book, Game Change, characterizes Sarah Palin, not just as an idiot who believed Saddam Hussein was behind 9/11, but also as possibly unstable.

The book claims that the stress of jumping onto the national stage caused Palin to have wild mood swings.

"One minute, Palin would be her perky self; the next she would fall into a strange blue funk,"

The morning of the famous CBS interview with Katie Couric, Palin - "her eyes glassy and dead" - was unresponsive to attempts to prep her as she was being made up.

"As they were about to set off to meet Couric, Palin announced 'I hate this makeup' - smearing it off her face, messing up her hair, complaining she looked fat"

Palin went on to give answers to Couric that were so incoherent the interview permanently damaged her.

Palin went into a tailspin. She stopped eating or sleeping, and drank only a half a can of diet soda a day, recounts the book written by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin.

"When her aides tried to quiz her she would routinely shut down - chin on her chest, arms folded, eyes cast to the floor, speechless and motionless, lost in what those around her described as a kind of catatonic stupor"

"If I had known everything I know now, I would not have done this," the book quotes Palin as saying.

When the campaign took her to Arizona to prep for the veep debate, McCain's staff made sure a doctor friend was on hand "to observe her," Heilemann and Halperin claim.

Heilemann told Anderson Cooper on “60 Minutes” that McCain Campaign manager Steve Schmidt claimed, “She knew nothing.” She had to be taken through World War I, World War II, the Cold War, and Palin was not aware there was a difference between North and South Korea.

Palin continued to insist that Iraq was behind 9/11, and when her son was being sent off to Iraq, she couldn’t describe who we were fighting.

"Andrew, I watch you at these debates with no notes, no papers, and yet when asked questions, you spout off facts, figures, and policies, and I'm amazed. But then I look out into the audience and I ask myself, 'Does any of this really matter?' " Palin said.

This was said during her campaign for governor of Alaska and she was talking to her competition Andrew Halcro (R). When you don't rely on truth and facts what are you relying on?

"When you don't rely on truth and facts what are you relying on?"

Ummm....TRR?

Just like her newspaper preference: Palin says her "favorite" founder is "all of them" before eventually citing Washington.