It Came From Wasilla

A blockbuster Vanity Fair article paints a devastating portrait of Sarah Palin that describes her life as an "unholy amalgam of Desperate Housewives and Northern Exposure." Among the revelations: one of John McCain's advisers called her "A Little Shop of Horrors"; she writes creepy emails to friends pretending to be God; and she's a compulsive liar.

The McCain staffers who trashed Palin in the article say they still suffer a kind of "survivor's guilt":

"They can't quite believe that for two frantic months last fall, caught in a Bermuda Triangle of a campaign, they worked their tails off to try to elect as vice president of the United States someone who, by mid-October, they believed for certain was nowhere near ready for the job, and might never be."

Ouch.

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