McCain ’08 campaign joked with Secret Service: ‘Shoot out Palin's tires’

[RamboLiberal]

After John McCain's presidential campaign decided to withdraw from Michigan, his vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin dissented. Once the Secret Service learned of Palin's plan to drive to Michigan one morning anyway, it got a blunt response upon asking how to handle it: "Shoot out the tires."

That was but one nugget of information revealed Wednesday in a lengthy Vanity Fair expose by Michael Joseph Gross, who chronicles Palin's journey from a small-town hockey mom to a powerful national force, and the "place of fear, anger, and illusion" it has led her to.

Palin, Gross learns, had a vicious temper during the campaign and was easily set off, yelling often at staffers and even throwing objects. "You just got to let her go through it," her husband Todd once told an aide. "Half the stuff that comes out of her mouth she doesn’t even mean."

Colleen Cottle of Wasilla, Alaska, who served on the city council, said Mayor Palin "had no attention span" and "does not understand math or accounting—she only knows buzzwords, like 'balanced budget'."

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/0901/palin-vanity-fair/

[bullwinkle428]

1. And people think she has serious intentions about running in 2012?

She would completely melt down in the first month of the campaign!

[Vincardog]

3. She would completely melt down in the first minute of the first real debate in the campaign!

Can you imagine sister sarah being interviewed by a real reporter?

[Frank Booth]

11. And the really scary part is, tens of millions of people will still vote for her anyway.

[Vincardog]

14. Prove it.

[Fumesucker]

2. "Half the stuff that comes out of her mouth she doesn’t even mean."

Sounds like a typical politician, maybe even more honest than most..

[mike r]

4. 'I'm gonna put on one of my push-up bras so I can get what I want tonight'

Perfect summary of her experience.

[Kolesar]

8. ...and a tight sweater...eom

[Raschel]

5. had no attention span" and "does not understand math or accounting—she only knows buzzwords, like

'balanced budget'."

That is a perfect description of the Lantern-Jawed Liar.

[Raschel]

6. was easily set off, yelling often at staffers and even throwing objects.

This makes sense. I think she's bipolar. ( I know that's a popular thing to say these days) It explains the weird runaway-bride-type glint she gets in her eyes when she's egging the crowds on. She likes the manic rush.

[Merlot]

9. She's not bipolar. She's not mentally ill.

She has no conscience, no concern for others, no attention span, no capacity for introspection or self-awareness.

[Raschel]

10. You can be all that and bipolar too. It doesn't mean she gets a pass.

[Erose999]

7. That was a great article. I really don't think Mayor McCheese knew what he was getting when he

picked her as a running mate. If he had a non-batshit-crazy running mate like Mittens or Rudy "I can't utter a complete sentence without invoking 9/11" Giuliani, he might have actually won.

[RandomThoughts]

12. There is one thing funny in that.

That people would think balance has anything to do with budget.

Why do they always think in terms of money. That is how all the stuff gets messed up, balance has very little to do with money.

Except where money creates a lack of balance.

[sandrakae]

13. Could he have changed his mine and picked someone else?

After it was apparent she was a moron, could he have dismissed her and picked someone else? It had to be horrifying for John McCain when she couldnt name the countries in the North American Free Trade Agreement.