It's a shame the late historian Theodore H. White is no longer with us because he could write a dandy
The Making of a (Vice) President chapter on Sarah Palin. This is a woman so vain she cannot see her own limitations if they hit her on the head. This is a woman who speaks of domestic economic issues and foreign policy with equal eloquence; much like a teenage beauty contestant mindlessly tells a judge she aspires to be a neurosurgeon or a model one day when she grows up. Oh but if we could only see the inner turmoil of her campaign staff in these final days.
Thus far more than one source has proclaimed that she has gone
diva. My favorite episode was when she stepped down the stairs of her JetBlue ERJ-190 aircraft and made a hard right turn to talk to reporters on her own. Aboard the plane her staff were going nuts-
"AAHH...Help! The candidate is speaking to the media extemporaneously and unscripted!"
What's then strange is that she and hubbie Todd gave People magazine an interview where they are so stiff and on-message they acted as if the warm and fluffy (largely female) rag was Hardball with Chris Matthews. During the interview they're talking about salmon fishing, preparing salmon and cooking salmon; apparently salmon loom large in the Alaskan life of the Palins. But they are so comically guarded in their responses it's almost as if they are suspecting the People reporter is attempting to set them up. It's as if Todd Palin is thinking:
"Shit, I know they're using the salmon question to catch Sarah off-guard in order to ask the really tough international politics questions." That's right Todd and here's one about Bosnia-Herzegovina that Sarah Palin hasn't memorized an answer to!