5 posts tagged “sarah palin”
A CNN story reports that Sarah Palin is now "going rogue" -- pretty much trying to run her own campaign. One McCain campaign staff member said "she appears to be looking out for herself more than the McCain campaign."
"'She is a diva. She takes no advice from anyone,' said this McCain adviser. 'She does not have any relationships of trust with any of us, her family or anyone else.
'Also, she is playing for her own future and sees herself as the next leader of the party. Remember: Divas trust only unto themselves, as they see themselves as the beginning and end of all wisdom.'"
Remember when Palin was talking in her debate against Biden about how she and McCain were "a team of mavericks"? This is it.
Funny, but the singing moose and trout are a little disturbing:
Slate has now diagrammed some of Sarah Palin's oh-so-quotable sentences. Are they tortured, labyrinthine and completely nonsensical? You betcha!
I know I'm not the only person reading this stuff.
A NY Times article published Saturday has this to say about Sarah Palin's record as mayor and governor:
Throughout her political career, she has pursued vendettas, fired officials who crossed her and sometimes blurred the line between government and personal grievance, according to a review of public records and interviews with 60 Republican and Democratic legislators and local officials.
and
[W]hen there was a vacancy at the top of the State Division of Agriculture, she appointed a high school classmate, Franci Havemeister, to the $95,000-a-year directorship. A former real estate agent, Ms. Havemeister cited her childhood love of cows as a qualification for running the roughly $2 million agency. (emphasis added)
Ms. Havemeister was one of at least five schoolmates Ms. Palin hired, often at salaries far exceeding their private sector wages.
and
The Wasilla High School yearbook archive now doubles as a veritable directory of state government. Ms. Palin appointed Mr. Bitney, her former junior high school band-mate, as her legislative director and chose another classmate, Joe Austerman, to manage the economic development office for $82,908 a year. Mr. Austerman had established an Alaska franchise for Mailboxes Etc.
and
Interviews show that Ms. Palin runs an administration that puts a premium on loyalty and secrecy. The governor and her top officials sometimes use personal e-mail accounts for state business; dozens of e-mail messages obtained by The New York Times show that her staff members studied whether that could allow them to circumvent subpoenas seeking public records.
There's much more in the article, but you get the idea.
So let's break this down: we have a tremendous amount of secrecy, a willingness to hire cronies into top positions with little or no experience (remember the top guy at FEMA who prior to that worked as an Arabian horse show organizer?), and an ability to paper over her own failings with manufactured folksy charm.
Yes, Redzilla said it, and it's true: Sarah Palin is George Bush in a dress. Just what this country needs, right?
This is a pretty good roundup of information, separated into reported facts and some disputed points.
All I can say is, this is the weirdest election season I have ever witnessed...
