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Matt Drudge somehow Drudged up a nice long chunk of excerpt from Sarah Palin's soon-to-be-released book Ecce Sarah: Why I Am So America. And — please allow me to tell you what I I am going to tell you — it does not disappoint. Not at all.
It reads like the best Sarah Palin fan fiction any Sarah Palin fan ever fictioned. Except this Sarah Palin fan is the biggest Sarah Palin fan of all: Sarah Palin (and ghostwriter)!
"Katie really likes you," she said to me one day. "she's a working mom and admires you as a working mom. She has teenage daughter like you. She just relates to you," Nicolle said. "believe me, I know her very well. I’ve worked with her."…
Nicolle went on to explain that Katie really needed a career boost. "She just has such low self-esteem," Nicolle said. She added that Katie was going through a tough time. "She just feels she can’t trust anybody."
I was thinking, And this has to do with John McCain's campaign how?
Nicolle said. "She wants you to like her."
Hearing all that, I almost started to feel sorry for her. Katie had tried to make a bold move from lively morning gal to serious anchor, but the new assignment wasn't going very well.
Don't do it, Sarah! Don't go in that room! She has a question about newspapers! Aaaaaaaahhh!!!
Oh my God! The drama! The intrigue! The betrayal! I'm on the edge of my seat over this very real-sounding, not at all soap-opera-ish account of how things probably actually happened in the real world.
In the interest of fairness, I've decided to highlight this counter-argument in favor of "the new energy, the new face, the new ideas" as opposed to "experience based on many many years in the Senate"…
Wow, that's a pretty good point that Sarah Palin makes there. And she obviously feels really strongly about it, because she's made the same point at least one other time…
"I have quite a few people who are giving us information about the record of Obama and Biden, and at the end of the day, though, it is — it's so clear, again, what those choices are. Either new ideas, new energy and reform of Washington, DC, or more of the same."
I think it shows a lot of character on Palin's part to put partisan politics aside and make such a strong argument in favor of Obama.
And, while she doesn't actually appear to give any actual answers or make any actual statement, it is heartening to know that she's aware of a thing called "Wall Street"…
Update: Ben Smith has the full transcript, but this part the highlighted is a clear highlight…
COURIC: But he's been in Congress for 26 years. He's been chairman of the powerful Commerce Committee. And he has almost always sided with less regulation, not more.
PALIN: He's also known as the maverick though. Taking shots from his own party, and certainly taking shots from the other party. Trying to get people to understand what he's been talking about–the need to reform government.
COURIC: I'm just going to ask you one more time, not to belabor the point. Specific examples in his 26 years of pushing for more regulation?
PALIN: I'll try to find you some and I'll bring them to you.
Poor Sarah Palin. She's probably spent the last several hours searching around furiously for those specific examples.
Aay! May! Zing!
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