Thursday, July 9, 2009
Nanook of the North, AKA, Sarah Palin, just keeps topping herself.
According to Jay Newton-Small, who interviewed soon-to-be-ex Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin for this week’s Time magazine, the Palin camp vehemently blames Barack Obama for her ethics troubles.
From Time:
For Palin, however, these aren’t isolated incidents. She believes they grow from the same root, which is too big and too formidable to ignore. “A lot of this comes from Washington, D.C. The trail is pretty direct and pretty obvious to us,” says Meg Stapleton, a close Palin adviser in Alaska. Awaiting a flight back to Anchorage from distant Dillingham, Stapleton adds that the anti-Palin offensive seems lifted straight from The Thumpin’, which describes the political strategies of Rahm Emanuel, who is now the White House chief of staff. “It’s the Sarah Palin playbook. It’s how they operate,” Stapleton says.
Palin and her Alaska circle find evidence for their suspicions about the White House in the person of Pete Rouse, who lived in Juneau for a time before he became chief of staff to a young U.S. Senator named Barack Obama. Rouse, they note, is a friend of former Alaska state senator Kim Elton, who pushed the first ethics investigation of Palin, examining her controversial firing of the state’s public-safety commissioner. Both Rouse and Elton have joined the Obama Administration. White House press secretary Robert Gibbs scoffed at the theory. “The charge is ridiculous,” he said. “Obviously there is no effort … From my vantage point, a lot of the criticism she is getting from others seems to be generated from self-inflicted wounds.
Palin is a sociopath: she blames everyone else for her mistakes, she knows it all, and she’s never wrong. Palin is entitled; she wants what she wants, and somebody else gets to pay for it, but if you get in her way, she will chase you down until she has you in her headlights and then, she will run over you.
From the Left 
It’s difficult to say who is the craziest: Sarah Palin or the people who work for her.
At the end of the day, the voters of Alaska had to see something in this ninny who they thought could do the work of the citizens and who reflected their values and priorities.
Lucky for them, she’s about to resign (will they throw her a big parade too?) and they have a chance to stop being the laughing stock of the world.
Chris, Perfect psychological characterization of Sarah Palin. She’s a certifiable sociopath. Just like George Bush, Dick Cheney, John Ensign, Mark Sanford, Newt Gingrich and Sally Kern. They’re incapable of self-reflection and they blame everything and everyone for their woes. I wonder what percentage of politicians are diagnosed sociopaths? I bet it’s more than 50%.
Self-reflection is a sign of maturity. Palin may be 40 or 45 but she’s hardly a mature adult. She has the emotional fabric of an adolescent.
Only 19% of Americans say they would vote for the Caribou Barbie for president in 2012.
I guess this is President Obama’s fault, too?
In any event, the sooner this pathetic kook departs from the national stage and the media stops covering her every move, the happier I will be.
the ugliness on the inside of Palin is pathetic
those poor kids – having this complete asshole as a mother means they have little chance of any sort of normal thought process.
the media will never stop covering her – she is too good for ratings
I think McCandy is mentally ill. Anyone who thinks God will lead them to the White House other than to take pictures and buy a t-shirt is suffering from serious delusions of grandeur. Her supporters are just as nutty.
I don’t suppose any of you bothered to listen to Hillary Clinton during the primaries when she too accused Obama of being a liar, a fraud and a thug:
http://allanerickson.wordpress.com/2009/03/06/hrc-calls-bho-a-liar-and-a-fraud-one-year-ago/