In E-Mails, A Glimpse From Inside Palin’s Rise

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Source: The New York Times

JUNEAU, Alaska — Few could have been more surprised than Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska when Senator John McCain picked her as his running mate in 2008.

“Can you believe it!” she wrote in response to a staff member’s “Wow governor” message that Friday in late August when the choice was announced. “He told me yesterday — it moved fast! Pray! I love you.”

Not two days earlier, Ms. Palin had been dealing with the sometimes mundane matters of one of the nation’s least populous states: a ballot initiative on mining, thorny personnel issues involving her ex-brother-in-law, and her personal request for “Alaska pins and governor pencils (or pens) to drop off at gladys wood elem school today after my afl cio speech.”

A scan of Ms. Palin’s e-mails in the weeks just before and after she was chosen as Mr. McCain’s running mate on the Republican ticket — among some 24,000 pages of them released by the State of Alaska on Friday — show in minute detail how she went overnight from being a small-state governor who was midway through her first term to a dominant figure in Republican politics.

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/11/us/politics/11palin.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&pagewanted=all

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Former Palin aide Frank Bailey also has a new book out, Blind Allegiance to Sarah Palin: A Memoir of Our Tumultuous Years. And expect more of these stories to roll out through the summer as Palin gets the WikiLeaks treatment and ultimately will not be on the 2012 ticket.

[jdadd]

1. AFL CIO Speech?

I wonder how that went over?

[madokie]

2. Link a turd in a punch bowl I'm sure. n/t

[tanyev]

3. Just finished reading Frank Bailey's book.

It was very interesting. I thought it would be tough to read, in the same way that I find it difficult to watch or hear anything Sarah says, but it wasn't. Good read from a former true believer who now sees clearly.

[No Elephants]

4. I don't know when Bailey first claims to have seen the light. However, in general, I find

aiders and abettors first start seeing clearly when they smell a buck to be made, like Bush's press secretary who faithfully stonewalled the media until Dummya fired him. Then, he saw the light--just in time for a book deal. And, miracle of miracle, his clarity was retroactive.


If I am interested in their stories, I'll borrow their books from my public library. That way, they don't get a cent from my interest.