The Wasilla Hillbilly is Going Home

[CatBO]

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

Not only is the Republican party dying a slow death, but their peppy cheerleader Sarah Palin is circling the drain too. Watch for more juicy details on the "Wasilla hillbillies" to emerge in the coming weeks. This article is a great read. The kicker is at the end, they hid the full extend of the Hillbilly's spending from McCain and she even tried to wrestle her way into his concession speech!

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NEWSWEEK has also learned that Palin's shopping spree at high-end department stores was more extensive than previously reported. While publicly supporting Palin, McCain's top advisers privately fumed at what they regarded as her outrageous profligacy. One senior aide said that Nicolle Wallace had told Palin to buy three suits for the convention and hire a stylist. But instead, the vice presidential nominee began buying for herself and her family—clothes and accessories from top stores such as Saks Fifth Avenue and Neiman Marcus. According to two knowledgeable sources, a vast majority of the clothes were bought by a wealthy donor, who was shocked when he got the bill. Palin also used low-level staffers to buy some of the clothes on their credit cards. The McCain campaign found out last week when the aides sought reimbursement. One aide estimated that she spent "tens of thousands" more than the reported $150,000, and that $20,000 to $40,000 went to buy clothes for her husband. Some articles of clothing have apparently been lost. An angry aide characterized the shopping spree as "Wasilla hillbillies looting Neiman Marcus from coast to coast," and said the truth will eventually come out when the Republican Party audits its books.

A Palin aide said: "Governor Palin was not directing staffers to put anything on their personal credit cards, and anything that staffers put on their credit cards has been reimbursed, like an expense. Nasty and false accusations following a defeat say more about the person who made them than they do about Governor Palin."

McCain himself rarely spoke to Palin during the campaign, and aides kept him in the dark about the details of her spending on clothes because they were sure he would be offended. Palin asked to speak along with McCain at his Arizona concession speech Tuesday night, but campaign strategist Steve Schmidt vetoed the request.

[shadowknows69]

1. Palin opened her last few rallies with an artist singing "redneck woman"

Her campaigning had no substance but hate, and she was a train wreck the few times the press caught her talking candidly. She will go down in republican history as the worst VP ever. Dan Quayle is a happier guy today. Sadly I doubt the GOP will allow another woman a shot at high office, maybe ever, because their hateful, blame seeking minds will go to that as a cause of the defeat when it wasn't her gender, it was her brain (READ-Lack of) that hurt them.

[Phred42]

2. You're right - she IS a Hillbilly

[jeepnstein]

15. Is not!

Hillbillys are a unique breed, and a bunch of opportunists from Alaska aren't the same by any stretch of the imagination.

Don't insult us by lumping a beauty queen with an appetite for living above her means into our ranks.

[siligut]

18. Well said! nt

[lonestarnot]

3. Adios chica.

[Jim__]

4. Palin in 2012.

That would make it easy.

[AzDar]

5. Oh, God...that is PRECIOUS! " You know Brian, we won't solve Global Warming because I changed

the fucking lightbulbs in my house...":toast:

[CatBO]

9. I know! I loved that part!

And another favorite, telling one:

On the Sunday night before the last debate, McCain's core group of advisers—Steve Schmidt, Rick Davis, adman Fred Davis, strategist Greg Strimple, pollster Bill McInturff and strategy director Sarah Simmons—met to decide whether to tell McCain that the race was effectively over, that he no longer had a chance to win. The consensus in the room was no, not yet, not while he still had "a pulse."

Or this one, they're all so good, and totally believable now that you think about it....

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.

[lib2DaBone]

6. Thank God. I hope she crawls back under her rock in Alaska

[acmavm]

7. One damn thing to be grateful to Steve Schmidt for:

<snip>

Palin asked to speak along with McCain at his Arizona concession speech Tuesday night, but campaign strategist Steve Schmidt vetoed the request.

[shadowknows69]

10. What a total loser. Trying to extend that 15 minutes by any means necessary.

[comtec]

8. What I don't understand is why her? There are many WELL qualified gop women

which in its self is rather pathetic that a woman would WANT to be a goper, but there you are.
ANY of them would have been an improvement, hell catty harris would have been better - and a hell of a lot more entertaining

[cobalt1999]

16. Thankfully it was her instead of Olympia Snow.

That was the potential pick I was terrified of.

[Phred42]

11. Sorry to pee in your Easter Basket but - She will probably appoint herself Senator

after the Senate kicks Stevens out

[CatBO]

12. Oh she probably will...

And it will be fun to watch her fail at that too...

[samdogmom]

21. She's Katherine Harris all over again!

I am so sorry for Democrats who happen to live in Alaska! WOW! What an uphill battle. Actually re-electing a convicted felon! Go figure!

[HelenWheels]

14. She can't do that in Alaska and Stevens won't get kick out

they need a 2/3rds vote in the Senate to bounce someone - the Dem's are too good old boy's clubish to to that to one of their own.

[TLRob007]

24. What She Will Probably Do

That she can't do. Alaska law requires a prompt special election unless a vacancy occurs within 60 days of a regular election. Voters would get to choose a new senator in a special election within 90 days. In the meantime, it would be up to Gov. Palin to decide whether to trigger a quick constitutional test by appointing an interim senator. The Legislature allows the governor to appoint someone to keep the seat warm until that election. What she can & probably will do is, resign her position as Governor. Then Lt. Gov. Sean Parnell moves up to be Governor & can appoint her for the interim. An interim appointment gives the chosen successor an incumbent's edge in the ultimate election. What a racket LOL

[orleans]

25. then alaska will have to have an emergency election within 90

days--something to that effect--where they vote for a real senator. (maybe they'll vote for stevens again)

[Individualist]

13. Hillbilly is not a four letter word.

[WallStreetNobody]

17. This is a great piece, can't wait for more chapters

Interesting but not surprising how the Secret Service saw a surge in threats against Obama once Palin started spewing the hate and racism in her rallies.

[dixiegrrrrl]

19. I don't get this part:

They use "Republican Party" and "audit the books" in the same sentence.

[central scrutinizer]

20. "the truth will come out" is also in that sentence

A record for non sequitirs in a sentence that short.

[smirkymonkey]

22. I hope this is the last we'll ever see or hear of her.

[Patiod]

23. Hee hee - Republicans at work are blaming Palin!

Here in the Northeast - more country-club than fundie base

She'd better head back to Alaska, because no telling what the Rich Non-Fundie arm of the party would do if they got their hands on her!