Palin: Erratic behavior and a pattern of lying...

[HipChick]

Vanity Fair article eviscerates Palin..

Palin lashed out at the slightest provocation, sometimes screaming at staff members and throwing objects. Witnessing such behavior, one aide asked Todd Palin if it was typical of his wife. He answered, “You just got to let her go through it… Half the stuff that comes out of her mouth she doesn’t even mean.” When a campaign aide gingerly asked Todd whether Sarah should consider taking psychiatric medication to control her moods, Todd responded that she “just needed to run and work out more.” Her anger kept boiling over, however, and eventually the fits of rage came every day. Then, just as suddenly, her temper would be gone. Palin would apologize and promise to be nicer. Within hours, she would be screaming again. At the end of one long day, when Palin was mid-tirade, a campaign aide remembers thinking, “You were an angel all night. Now you’re a devil. Where did this come from

One friend of the Palins’ remembers an argument between Sarah and Todd: “They took all the canned goods out of the pantry, then proceeded to throw them at each other. By the time they got done, the stainless-steel fridge looked like it had got shot up with a shotgun. Todd said, ‘I don’t know why I even waste my time trying to get nice things for you if you’re just going to ruin them.’ ” This friend adds, “As soon as she enters her property and the door closes, even the insects in that house cringe. She has a horrible temper, but she has gotten away with it because she is a pretty woman.” (The friend elaborated on this last point: “Once, while Sarah was preparing for a city-council meeting, she said, ‘I’m gonna put on one of my push-up bras so I can get what I want tonight.’ That’s how she rolls.”)

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PAL-PAC seems to have been created for a single purpose: to pay Sarah Palin to give a speech. PAL-PAC announced the Palin event at the same time that it announced its own formation. After the Palin event was over, most of the information on PAL-PAC’s Web site disappeared. In effect, PAL-PAC was a disposable entertainment company, set up to put on a one-day show that collected the contact information of thousands of people who came to see Palin in the flesh, and to give her their money. The organization has not been mentioned again anywhere online or in local newspapers. The group’s financial statements are curious

This whole hunter thing, for Sarah? That is the biggest fallacy,” says one longtime friend of the family. “That woman has never hunted. The picture of her with the caribou she says she shot? She got out of the R.V. to pose for a picture. She never helps with the fishing either. It’s all a joke.” The friend goes on to recall that when Greta Van Susteren came to the house to interview Palin “ cooked moose chili and whatnot. Todd was calling everyone he knew the day before—‘Do you got any moose?’ Desperate.”

http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2010/10/sarah-palin-201010

[mike r]

1. History will remember McCain for unleashing this trash

[EFerrari]

2. So, Armageddon Spice is a PNAC babe:

"The small inner circle that shapes Palin’s voice day to day includes lobbyist Randy Scheunemann, a director of the neoconservative think tank Project for the New American Century, who advises Palin on foreign affairs, and Kim Daniels, a lawyer with the Thomas More Law Center, which has been called “the Christian answer to the A.C.L.U.,” who advises her on domestic issues."

[Brother Buzz]

3. Bill 'Mr PNAC' Kristol essentially brokered the deal -

Bill Kristol flew up to Alaska and meet with Palin in 2007. He later urged McCain to pick Palin arguing that her presence on the ticket would provide a boost in enthusiasm among the Religious Right wing of the Republican party, while her status as an unknown on the national scene would also be a positive factor.

Lieberman became odd man out, but still got to drive the bus. Woo Hoo!

[EFerrari]

5. I remember the Kristol thing now.

Didn't realize that she'd become a mascot. Fascinating in a creepy way.

[Marr]

4. "She had no idea who Margaret Thatcher was".

I knew the woman was an authentic moron, but things like this still amaze me.

[davepc]

6. My wife used to have really bad mood swings when she was on birth control

When she went off it they disappeared.

I'm not talking being grumpy or edgy, but full on violent tantrums that involved throwing things and screaming.

The doctor assumed the pill was messing with her hormone levels to a degree that lent itself to the mood swings.

[Confusious]

7. I doubt she's on birth control

My pop psych degree tells me Narcasist. It fits.