The latest dish on Palin
C'mon, you know you want to hear it.
About her being clueless enough to believe that Africa was a country and not a continent?
About how she threw temper tantrums...and showed up wearing only a towel for a campaign meeting?
About how Wasilla's first family of grifters struck the lower-forty-eights finest fashion stores?
Gee, all the votes weren't even counted before all the pent up resentment and rage from McCain staffers toward Sarah Palin started to explode.
For starters, here is John McCain's private opinion of Palin, as reported by the Guardian:
"An exasperated McCain has been telling friends in recent weeks that Palin is even more trouble than a pitbull. In one joke doing the rounds, the Republican presidential candidate has been asking friends: what is the difference between Sarah Palin and a pitbull? The friendly canine eventually lets go, is the McCain punchline."
Then Newsweek reports the McCain campaign's take on Palin's clothing extravaganza:
"Newsweek has also learned that Palin's shopping spree at high-end department stores was more extensive than previously reported. While publicly supporting Palin, McCain's top advisers privately fumed at what they regarded as her outrageous profligacy.....An angry aide characterized the shopping spree as "Wasilla hillbillies looting Neiman Marcus from coast to coast," and said the truth will eventually come out when the Republican Party audits its books."
Here is a video of Fox's Carl Cameron telling Shep Smith how "McCain staffers" complained that Palin is not just a moron, but a bad-tempered moron:
"There was great concern in the McCain campaign that Sarah Palin lacked the degree of knowledgeability necessary to be a running mate, a vice president, and a heartbeat away from the presidency.
We're told by folks that she didn't know what countries were in NAFTA, the North American Free Trade Agreement, that being Canada, the US, and Mexico.
We're told that she didn't understand that Africa was a continent rather than a country just in itself. A whole host of questions that caused serious problems about her knowledgeability.
She got very angry at staff, thought that she was mishandled, was particularly angry about the way the Katie Couric interview went. She didn't accept preparation for that interview when the aides say that that was part of the problem. And that there were times where she was hard to control emotionally. There's talk of temper tantrums at bad news clippings."
Shep Smith asked: "How could they end up with a running mate who doesn't know that Africa is a continent?" Cameron explains that the vetting process "was truncated."
Just think -- this GOP comedy act got nearly half the votes. How is that possible?
It says way more about the ruthlessness of McCain and his campaign advisors than it says about Palin. She will descend back into obscurity, to become a trivia question -- What politician claimed she had foreign policy expertise because she could see Russia from her house?
Lest we forget -- the chief cheerleaders urging McCain to pick Palin were neo-con columnist William Kristol and gasbag talk show host Rush Limbaugh, the GOP’s more radical wingnuts...who have the attitude that GOP moderates (the few that remain), can go hang.
Well, guess who's now twisting slowly, slowly in the wind ...
