Sarah Palin revealed as even dumber, more diva-like -- Chris Matthews comments

Now that the 2008 election is over, reporters are spilling all the juciest, and previously off the record, gossip from the campaign trail. Much of it is about the infighting between Palin and McCain's staff, as Newsweek's treasure trove of post-election gossip reveals.

However, perhaps one of the most astounding and previously unknown tidbits about Sarah Palin has to do with her already dubious grasp of geography. According to Fox News Chief Political Correspondent Carl Cameron, there was great concern within the McCain campaign that Palin lacked "a degree of knowledgeability necessary to be a running mate, a vice president, a heartbeat away from the presidency," in part because she didn't know which countries were in NAFTA, and she "didn't understand that Africa was a continent, rather than a series, a country just in itself."

Palin was apparently a nightmare for her campaign staff to deal with. She refused preparation help for her interview with Katie Couric and then blamed her staff, specifically Nicole Wallace, when the interview was panned as a disaster. After the Couric interview, Fox News reported, Palin turned nasty with her staff and began to accuse them of mishandling her. Palin would view press clippings of herself in the morning and throw "tantrums" over the negative coverage. There were times when she would be so nasty and angry that her staff was reduced to tears.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/05/palin-didnt-know-africa-i_n_141653.html
An anonymous McCain staffer described her to Politico as "wacko" and a "diva." When Politico reported on Oct. 21 that Palin had spent $150,000 for clothes for herself and her family, the governor had been all wounded innocence. At a campaign stop in Tampa, she said, "These clothes—they're not my property, just like the lighting and the staging and everything else that the RNC purchased. I am not taking them with me. I am back to wearing clothes from my favorite consignment shop in Anchorage, Alaska." Publicly, McCain aides backed up Palin, saying that a third of the clothes had been returned immediately, before they were worn in public, and that the rest would be donated to charity. Privately, however, McCain's top advisers fumed at what they regarded as Palin's outrageous profligacy. One senior aide said that Nicolle Wallace had told Palin to buy three suits for the convention and hire a stylist, but thereafter Palin had "gone rogue," as the media buzz put it. She began buying for herself and her family—clothes and accessories from top stores like Saks Fifth Avenue and Neiman Marcus. A week after she announced that she was going back to her consignment shop she was still having tailored clothes delivered. According to two knowledgeable sources, a vast majority of the clothes were bought by a wealthy donor, who was shocked when he got the bill. Palin also used low-level staffers to buy some of the clothes on their credit cards; the McCain campaign found out last week when the aides sought reimbursement. One aide estimated that she spent "tens of thousands" more than the reported $150,000, and that $20,000 to $40,000 went to buy clothes for her husband. Some articles of clothing have apparently been lost. 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.
http://www.newsweek.com/id/168017/page/5
McCain himself rarely spoke to Palin during the campaign and aides kept him in the dark about the details of her spending on clothes because they were sure he would be offended. Palin asked to speak along with McCain at his Arizona concession speech but campaign strategist Steve Schmidt vetoed the request.
Palin launched her attack on Obama's association with William Ayers, the former Weather Underground bomber, before the campaign had finalized a plan to raise the issue. McCain's advisers were working on a strategy that they hoped to unveil the following week, but McCain had not signed off on it, and top adviser Mark Salter was resisting.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/05/obama-we-cant-solve-globa_n_141358.html

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[VVGrules]

Sarah Palin is insane. She's against abortion for any reason. She doesn't believe that woman are smart enough to make their own decisions or even have the RIGHT to choose. She would take the right to choose away from a young girl who was raped by a criminally insane exconvict...Yes, that is correct. I can't stand Sarah Palin...she is a phoney and against Freedom.

[straydog02]

Sarah Palin isn't even as intelligent as a 1st grader.

If she becomes the next president, America will be the laughing stock of the entire world.

[Allanlegacy43]

@talleve2 Ron Paul!

[schlummieleinchen]

Easy guidelines for Palinites, Tea Party supporters and all who want to keep the "right kind" of people in power:

1) use comments to demonstrate your own ignorance, unfamiliarity with empirical data, ability to repeat discredited memes and lack of respect for scientific knowledge.

2) create straw men and argue against things neither said nor even implied by others. Any irrelevancies you can mention will be appreciated.

3) forgo all civility in your discourse, You are, after all, anonymous.

[laceydays1]

@sdcazares1980  that's an insult to the three stooges!

[laceydays1]

@talleve2 i'd say the repukelicans are the ones obsessed with 'mindless crap'...her name is sarah palin.



[moviesenthil]

@laceydays1 - dogshit is good manure.

[talleve2]

yeah all these harvard and yale educated presidents putting us so far in debt. we need a simplistic average american as president. not another con man, who peopagandas mines that he can solve our problems with speeches. palin atleast stands for a few things. but the hate crowd is obsessed with mindless crap.

[bklynAtrain]

She is soooooooo dumb!!

[icut1]

wut cuntree is north ameriiccaa in?Duh.

[MegaLamka]

Palin is one sexy ass GOP muppet