Vanity Fair: "It Came from Wasilla"

[steven johnson]

Sarah Palin is the beauty queen air head who helped sink the McCain presidential campaign.

With a huge ego and a marginal intellect, I'm guessing she will be a freak show for a long time to come.

Remember Mae West as a geriatric vamp? I expect something similar for Palin.

The pattern is inescapable: she takes disagreements personally, and swiftly deals vengeance on enemies, real or perceived.

Whatever her political future, the emergence of Sarah Palin raises questions that will not soon go away.

In the aftermath of the November election, the conventional wisdom among Palin’s supporters in the Republican establishment was that she should go home, keep her head down, show that she could govern effectively, and quietly educate herself about foreign and domestic policy with the help of a cadre of experienced advisers. She has done none of this.


Palin is unlike any other national figure in modern American life—neither Anna Nicole Smith nor Margaret Chase Smith but a phenomenon all her own. The clouds of tabloid conflict and controversy that swirl around her and her extended clan—the surprise pregnancies, the two-bit blood feuds, the tawdry in-laws and common-law kin caught selling drugs or poaching game—give her family a singular status in the rogues’ gallery of political relatives.





It Came from Wasilla

[JuniperLea]

1. IT

[Poiuyt]

4. IT!

[JuniperLea]

5. IT sure gets around! lol! eom

[DCKit]

2. Mae West was a brilliant writer with a wicked sense of humor and a hella head for business...

and she knew she wasn't "pretty", but glamorous - like any drag queen worth her salt. She also lived in the same apartment nearly the entire time she kept a place in CA, so she wasn't afflicted with pretentiousness.

How can you compare a woman with zero accomplishments, no concept of poise or innuendo to Mae West? For shame.

BTW, when Ms. West died, she owned a substantial portion of L.A..

[JuniperLea]

6. I love her!

Her brilliance and confidence made her sexy as hell.

[Maru Kitteh]

3. great title for the article, I must say.