Palin sailed into the room wearing nothing but a towel, with another on her wet hair.

[Genevieve]

At the GOP convention in St. Paul, Palin was completely unfazed by the boys' club fraternity she had just joined. One night, Steve Schmidt and Mark Salter went to her hotel room to brief her. After a minute, Palin sailed into the room wearing nothing but a towel, with another on her wet hair. She told them to chat with her laconic husband, Todd. "I'll be just a minute," she said.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/167581/page/2

[ShortnFiery]

1. Oh, that's so damn tacky. Todd would screen all her calls if he were "Second Dude."

:scared: :puke:

[Genevieve]

4. She 's pure class!!!

:sarcasm: :puke:

[ingac70]

2. Trashy. n/t

[Mike Daniels]

40. I'd put more blame on Todd in this case.

It sounds like the others arrived while she was in the bathroom/shower.

Even if at some point Palin was aware that they were there before leaving the bathroom you'd think Todd would have handed off some clothing to her so she could change in the bathroom.

Then again, maybe she was fully aware that they were on their way up and decided to put on a show.

Hard to tell the circumstance from the little blurb in the OP.

[Roy]

44. Wouldn't briefing day and time been scheduled in advance?

I doubt they just showed up unannounced.

She knew what she was doing, or her upbringing taught her it was no big deal.

[Roy]

45. Dupe

[MadinMo]

46. You would think he would have objected at least.

MrMadinMo would have burst an artery if I pranced around that way in front of ANYONE.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

3. Is this a new scene in Nailin' Palin?

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[Genevieve]

6. Lol! nt

[Kahuna]

12. Good one. Great call!

:applause:

[ColbertWatcher]

15. LOL! That's what I was expecting! n/t

[bullwinkle428]

31. "Why, Mistuh Putin...I didn't expect you to...come in!"

:rofl:

[dynasaw]

5. Fundamentally a whore

[EFerrari]

32. Yes. She treats herself as a commodity. Exactly. n/t

[JI7]

7. she thought this whole thing was like a beauty pageant

[Dammit Ann]

8. .

"I often find myself trapped by the questions and thinking to myself, 'You know, this is a stupid question, but let me … answer it.' So when Brian Williams is asking me about what's a personal thing that you've done , and I say, you know, 'Well, I planted a bunch of trees.' And he says, 'I'm talking about personal.' What I'm thinking in my head is, 'Well, the truth is, Brian, we can't solve global warming because I f---ing changed light bulbs in my house. It's because of something collective"

President Obama.

[arcadian]

35. Did she say that?

we dodged a bullet.

[Ian David]

9. Is this a scene from Nailin' Palin? n/t

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

11. GMTA!!!! See my post above! Beat you!!!

:rofl:

[Cass]

10. What the heck is wrong with these people?

How unprofessional and tacky can you get?

[shellgame26]

13. straight up slut

[Blue For You]

14. How fitting, as last night she had to throw in the towel(s).

:)

[chat_noir]

16. This gem needs to preserved in a DU Research topic: Palin 2012

[JohnnyLib2]

17. I'll buck the trend---

kinda like the image. :evilgrin:

[smb]

34. Yes, But...

...I'd rather visualize a scantily-clad woman who isn't batshit crazy. :7

[Lerkfish]

18. this thread is nothing without pictures

LOL! my first chance to say that.

[fasttense]

19. Wow, Palin was much worse than we feared.

What an egotistical, ignorant woman.

But I must say, I'm surprised that Senator McCain decided not to use some of the nastier stuff against President (Elect) Obama. McCain had more ethics than I gave him credit for. But still, considering that President (Elect) Obama didn't use most of the nasty stuff against Senator McCain, the nastier stuff might have backfired on McCain.

[Kind of Blue]

20. God, she's a skeeze. Good, juicy reading overall though. Thanx!

[SheWhoMustBeObeyed]

21. She is the Tonya Harding of politics

and her skeezy First Dud is her proven Jeff Gillooly, willing and able to harass anyone who stands in the way of his lil sweetcheeks.

[lonestarnot]

23. Nails it!

[ColbertWatcher]

25. Hey, come on, lay off Tonya.

She was is an accomplished athlete.

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonya_Harding#Skating_career">Wikip*dia:

She landed her first triple axel in competition at the U.S. Championships, winning the title with the event's first 6.0 ever given to a female single skater for technical merit.

(...)

In her career, Harding landed four triple axels in competition, all of them in 1991 where she completed every one she tried: one at the U.S. Championships, one at the World Championships, and two at the fall 1991 Skate America competition. At the latter competition she recorded three more firsts:

1. the first woman ever to do a triple axel in the short program,
2. the first woman to do two triple axels in a single competition, and
3. the first ever to do a triple axel combination (with double toe loop).

Tonya Harding may have been linked to some seedy characters, but she never pretended to be something she wasn't and became a world-class athlete based on her abilities and not on unethical, backstabbing, favors or connections.

[Chemical Bill]

43. I heard Tonya Harding and Michael Jackson got a racetrack.

I'll bet everybody knows the punchline.

Bill

[TexasObserver]

26. Hi Yo!!

yep

[muriel_volestrangler]

22. Meh. It was *her* hotel room.

People here seem to be reacting as if it was a press conference. What did you expect her to do - send them outside into the corridor? Seeing flesh isn't sinful, despite what some of the Puritans on this thread seem to think.

[Genevieve]

29. Yes, it was very "presidential" of her.

[muriel_volestrangler]

33. Do you agree with others on this thread that it makes her a 'whore', 'slut' or 'skeeze'?

And would you say that about any woman who appears in front of someone they know, in private, covered like that?

If those words apply to Palin for her appearance in her hotel room, what about the pictures of JFK or Obama in public, in nothing but swimming trunks? Presumably, those are completely un-'presidential'.

[Mad_Dem_X]

24. This one was interesting, too:

"On the night she officially lost the Democratic nomination, Hillary Clinton enjoyed a long and friendly phone conversation with McCain. Clinton was actually on better terms with McCain than she was with Obama. Clinton and McCain had downed shots together on Senate junkets; they regarded each other as grizzled veterans of the political wars and shared a certain disdain for Obama as flashy and callow."

[PA Democrat]

27. "Wasilla hillbillies looting Neiman Marcus from coast to coast"

Wow. Pretty revealing article. Among the gems:

Between $20,000 and $40,000 was spent by Palin for clothes for Todd.

Palin had authorization to buy three suits and instead went wild buying everything in sight for herself and her family.

Palin wanted to speak at the concession speech in Arizona, but was overruled.

Palin introduced the Ayers controversy into her speeches before the campaign had signed off on it.

A foreign entity (Russia or China?) had hacked into the campaigns' computer systems in what the FBI felt was an attempt to determine foreign policy plans.

Fascination article. Thanks for posting.

[Genevieve]

30. Thank you, I enjoyed reading it.

:hi:

[Beausoleil]

28. Not as bad as LBJ

who regularly received reporters and junior staff while sitting on the "throne".

[LatteLibertine]

36. Maybe she will be in Nailin' Paylin II

Although I think she's had her 15 minutes.

[kwassa]

37. Big deal. She was covered up. What's the issue?

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

38. Completely classless. Has she never heard of a "robe"?

Not to mention that the level of hotel she was staying in probably PROVIDES bathrobes.

Did they have to call down to the front desk for toothpaste?

[NeedleCast]

39. Appearing in a Towel makes someone a slut or a whore?

Wow...that's pretty telling about some attitudes.

We just put the first black man in the white house, but a woman who appears (in her own hotel room) with a towel wrapped around her is a whore.

Interesting...

[curse of greyface]

41. I have no idea why this is a problem. NT

[JHB]

42. So?

I tend to think of women who are "unfazed by the boys' club fraternity" as a good thing.

Is there some problem later in the article?

[leftofthedial]

47. siled into the room wearing nothing but a towel

Hoist the mainsail little buddy!

[frickaline]

48. I wonder if we'd be as concerned over this had it been John McCain instead. /nt