Former Aide's Leaked Manuscript Trashes Sarah Palin

I find Sarah Palin to be an insult to one's intelligence. She's unqualified to be dog catcher in a small village much less to run for any national office. Add to that the fact that she's a pathological liar and a self-absorbed shrew and you pretty much get the image of Palin found in Frank Bailey's leaked manuscript. Bailey was one of Palin's aides from her time as half-term governor of Alaska. The book that hopefully grows out of the manuscript ought to be required reading amongst the Kool-Aid drinking GOP base, but I suspect it will be described as "all lies" by Palin's ignorant by choice followers. Oh, and did I mention that Bailey says Palin violated election laws? The Anchorage Daily News has details on the tell all manuscript that shows the true, unvarnished and ugly Palin. Here are some highlights:
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The manuscript opens with an account of Palin sending Bailey a message saying "I hate this damn job" shortly before she resigned as Alaska's governor in July 2009, less than three years into her four-year term. The manuscript goes on for nearly 500 pages, a mixture of analysis, gossip and allegation.
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Bailey, a political insider who joined Palin's 2006 campaign for governor and became part of her inner circle, has never before told his version of the Palin story. Bailey has consistently refused requests for interviews and did so again Friday. The book was co-written with California author Ken Morris and Jeanne Devon of Anchorage, who publishes the popular anti-Palin website Mudflats.
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Bailey wrote in the book that he and his co-authors put together the manuscript with the help of more than 60,000 e-mails he sent or received while working for Palin.
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[I]n Bailey's telling, the reality was nasty. Minor slights became obsessions, according to Bailey, demanding revenge and if possible, destruction of the opponent's reputation. "We set our sights and went after opponents in coordinated attacks, utilizing what we called "Fox News surrogates," friendly blogs, ghost-written op-eds, media opinion polls (that we often rigged), letters to editors, and carefully edited speeches," Bailey wrote.
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One chapter asserts Palin broke election law by coordinating with the Republican Governors Association during her 2006 campaign for governor. State candidates can't team up with soft-money groups such as the Republican Governors Association, which paid for TV commercials and mailers in Alaska during the election in a purported "independent" effort.
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Palin is a menace and needs to be returned to the political wilderness - the sooner the better for America.