Sarah Palin: Going Rogue

From Booklist: "No good deed goes unpunished. Just ask Steve Schmidt, John McCain’s campaign manager and the guy who pushed Sarah Palin as McCain’s running mate. Now, in Palin’s much-hyped book, he’s just a fat, smoking bullet-head who told her to “stick to the script.” The feeling running through Going Rogue is that Palin has been bursting to take a whack at those she believes didn’t do right by her during the campaign. (Katie Couric, we’re looking at you!) Before readers get to that, however, there’s personal biography. We’re introduced to Sarah the reader—loved to read—the basketball player, hunter, wife, mother. Then lots and lots of Alaska politics, which will probably be a little hard even for people from Alaska to plow through. (Scores are settled here, too.) Once Palin gets into the 2008 campaign, the tone is folksy, but the knives are out. Much has been made of her criticisms of Schmidt and another McCain staffer, Nicolle Wallace. But less has been said about Palin’s comments about Barack Obama. For instance, she notes that when she and husband Todd first heard Obama speak, they saw the wow factor but worried that his “smooth” talk would hide his radical ideas. She also implies that Obama wanted to shield only his own children from the press, though, in fact, in September 2008, he told CNN that Palin’s children must be off limits as well. Ronald Reagan’s name is mentioned by page 3 and invoked regularly throughout. There’s no doubt Palin sees herself as heir to his legacy. But many readers will see the Sarah Palin revealed in these pages as much closer to George Bush, someone you’d like to have a beer with. Or perhaps dinner: “I always remind people from outside our state that there’s plenty of room for all Alaska’s animals—right next to the mashed potatoes.” --Ilene Cooper

I read this because she's just one of those figures that I needed to read her own words to figure out if she's just misunderstood or really just nuts. Turns out she's simply delusional. Here's the short version for my reasoning: to "go rogue" one must be fighting against "the man", but this book is filled with "here's how 'the man' wanted to hold me down and see how I let him do that, but I'm a-gonna 'go rogue' now by tellin' ya'll that when I was letting the man hold me down, I was totally thinking "when I'm vice president, I'll show you who's boss". She gives example after example after example of how she kept getting walked all over in politics while she apparently was thinking how moronic these guys all were. Like I'm going to vote for someone who is man-handled into clothes she didn't want to wear because internally she's thinking that it's stupid and not her fault.

The other reason big why I don't like Sarah Palin? Because if a vegan came to her house she'd hand them half a head of iceberg and call that dinner while her family eats moose stew. I'll let you insert all the negative names I'm mentally calling her. I don't care if she thinks being vegan or vegetarian is stupid, there are a half dozen equally easy ways to not be rude to a dinner guest.

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