From CNN
(CNN)- A former aide to Sarah Palin slammed the ex-chief executive in the scorching new tell-all, "Blind Allegiance to Sarah Palin: A Memoir of our Tumultuous Years," out Tuesday.
Frank Bailey, who began working for the former governor of Alaska during her successful 2006 gubernatorial campaign and stayed through her failed bid for vice president, told CNN that he was "terrified" of the potential for her to become the nation's second-in-command.
Bailey lamented Palin's leadership during the interview stating, "Her leadership style was absolutely chaotic."
"When she got tapped for vice president I was absolutely overjoyed in one sense and on the other sense absolutely terrified." "She loved to play the victim," he said of the possible 2012 candidate for president. " What's sad is that people who believed [in her] like I did…they fall for that and don't ask tough questions."
And from the Washington Post
“I am convinced,” Bailey writes, “that her priorities and personality are not only ill suited to head a political party or occupy national office, but would lead to a disaster of, well, biblical proportions.”
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“Behaviors I had previously considered myself incapable of condoning would become acceptable and commonplace,” he writes. Although Palin promised to take the high road in politics, Bailey was forced into “an ethical limbo dance” that included making up letters to newspaper editors and signing them with the names of supporters. On another occasion, Bailey and other staffers spent hours voting repeatedly to manipulate a television opinion poll on Palin’s decision to reject part of the federal government’s economic stimulus funding.
Lying, cheating and then lying some more all became part of the Palin stock in trade.
From Huffpo
"In 2009 I had the sense if she made it to the White House and I had stayed silent, I could never forgive myself," Frank Bailey told The Associated Press.
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Bailey said the final straw for him came in the summer of 2009, when Palin didn't attend a rally he believed she'd repeatedly agreed to attend, for supporters of a voter initiative to require minors get parental consent for an abortion. This came after a string of cancellations, including one before a Republican women's group at the Ronald Reagan Library in California. Her aides claimed no one had committed to this well-publicized event..
"Getting Sarah to meetings and events was like nailing Jell-O to a tree," Bailey wrote. On the campaign trail and as governor, Sarah went through at least ten schedulers, with few lasting more than months. Nobody wanted the job because Sarah might fail to honor, at the last minute, the smallest commitments, and making excuses for her became a painful burden."
Coming almost immediately after the New York Magazine piece which quotes Roger Ailes as saying he thinks "Palin is Stupid", this book will certainly do some damage to any Presidential aspirations Palin might have.
Set your watches for the vindictive whining victim proclaimation from professional Tweeter/Facebooker Palin in 5..4...3...2...
Vyan