Vanity Fair: IT CAME FROM WASILLA (McCain Staffers Trash Palin)

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McCain Staffers Trash Palin

A blockbuster Vanity Fair piece by Todd Purdum quotes many senior members of John McCain's presidential campaign team trashing Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R).

"They can't quite believe that for two frantic months last fall, caught in a Bermuda Triangle of a campaign, they worked their tails off to try to elect as vice president of the United States someone who, by mid-October, they believed for certain was nowhere near ready for the job, and might never be."

Said one aide: "I think, as I've evaluated it, I think some of my worst fears... the after-election events have confirmed that her more negative aspects my have been there... I saw her as a raw talent. Raw, but a talent. I hoped she could become better."

It's today's must read article.
http://politicalwire.com/archives/2009/06/30/mccain_staffers_trash_palin.html

It Came from Wasilla

"Alaska's lipstick-wearing pit-bull is a "Little Shop of Horrors.""



Despite her disastrous performance in the 2008 election, Sarah Palin is still the sexiest brand in Republican politics, with a lucrative book contract for her story. But what Alaska’s charismatic governor wants the public to know about herself doesn’t always jibe with reality. As John McCain’s top campaign officials talk more candidly than ever before about the meltdown of his vice-presidential pick, the author tracks the signs—political and personal—that Palin was big trouble, and checks the forecast for her future.

read the rest:
http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2009/08/sarah-palin200908?printable=true¤tPage=all