Sarah Palin 'Going Rogue': Takes Aim At McCain Campaign, Steve Schmidt
Sam Stein and Lila Shapiro
HuffPost
In an early October appearance at a conference in Washington D.C. former McCain campaign manager Steve Schmidt was asked how he expected to be portrayed in Sarah Palin's forthcoming book.
Not well, he replied. He wasn't wrong.
In an advance copy of her new book, which was obtained by the Huffington Post on Friday, the vice presidential candidate who took the political world by storm only to abruptly resign as governor of Alaska, airs plenty of dirty laundry. Clocking in at over 400 pages, "Going Rogue" is, at its heart, one giant complaint with the conduct of John McCain's 2008 presidential campaign. At the nexus of Palin's grievances lies Schmidt, a character cast as out of touch, overly cautious, and vindictive.
The relationship between the vice president and the campaign manager doesn't start off on the rocks -- but it ends there. And though she claims they were "very comfortable with each other right off the bat," she also describes Schmidt as "business to the bone." During her vetting Schmidt plays it cool. When Sarah admits "the one skeleton [she'd] kept hidden in [her] closet for the past twenty-two years" Schmidt "didn't bat an eye" -- though he does "wince" when she mentions God. That oh-so-dark secret, incidentally, is a D grade Sarah received in a college course.
(More here.)
HuffPost
In an early October appearance at a conference in Washington D.C. former McCain campaign manager Steve Schmidt was asked how he expected to be portrayed in Sarah Palin's forthcoming book.
Not well, he replied. He wasn't wrong.
In an advance copy of her new book, which was obtained by the Huffington Post on Friday, the vice presidential candidate who took the political world by storm only to abruptly resign as governor of Alaska, airs plenty of dirty laundry. Clocking in at over 400 pages, "Going Rogue" is, at its heart, one giant complaint with the conduct of John McCain's 2008 presidential campaign. At the nexus of Palin's grievances lies Schmidt, a character cast as out of touch, overly cautious, and vindictive.
The relationship between the vice president and the campaign manager doesn't start off on the rocks -- but it ends there. And though she claims they were "very comfortable with each other right off the bat," she also describes Schmidt as "business to the bone." During her vetting Schmidt plays it cool. When Sarah admits "the one skeleton [she'd] kept hidden in [her] closet for the past twenty-two years" Schmidt "didn't bat an eye" -- though he does "wince" when she mentions God. That oh-so-dark secret, incidentally, is a D grade Sarah received in a college course.
(More here.)
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