The Arizona Republic Reads The Sarah Palin Blog

Take a look at the two previous posts on this blog and then read this Opinion piece in the Arizona Republic entitled "McCain needs to defend Palin."

Did no one on the McCain campaign read the party champion's biography? Or were the chapters on the importance of honor skipped?

Former John McCain staffers are dishing on Sarah Palin in a clear and shameless attempt to cast blame for their own failure onto someone else's shoulders. The former Republican presidential candidate needs to cut loose with a broadside from his world-famous battery of temper cannons against these despicable gossipmongers.



Palin rang up Republican National Committee accounts for clothing at Neiman Marcus, anonymous staffers are telling Newsweek and others. She was a petulant diva who demanded TV time for her own concession speech. And, playing up the "trashy bimbo" angle, they nattered on about Palin greeting staffers at her hotel-room door swathed in nothing but a towel.

Oh . . . and did we tell you about how she thought Africa was a country?

McCain needs to set this tawdry record straight, starting with the obvious fact that he picked Palin, not the other way around.

It wouldn't hurt to note, too, that his campaign chose to sit on the Alaskan governor for nearly a month before rolling her out into the arms of Charlie Gibson and Katie Couric. In short, throwing her to the wolves.

Nice work, staff.

Exit polling indicates that of voters who considered Palin a factor in their presidential decision, a healthy majority considered her an attribute, not a drag.

Some of these nattering nabobs may be looking for a GOP presidential candidate to throw in with in 2012. They had better hope that candidate isn't a certain Alaskan governor.

Thanks for reading AR. Glad I could help.