In what was a truly disgusting bit of reporting today in Politico, news puppy Andy Barr, a shameless apologist for Palin these past 16 months, confirmed the rumor that Stapleton, Palin’s longtime “spokesperson” and political assassin, was departing her $96,000-a-year position as a consultant to SarahPAC, though Barr never managed to set any of the significant facts in place. Instead, Barr spun it exactly as Stapleton wanted it woven–as a move “to spend more time with her husband and 2-year-old daughter, Isabella.” Perhaps you’d also like to buy some land from young Andy in Florida. Geoffrey has been writing his book ” The Lies of Sarah Palin: The Untold Story Behind her Relentless Quest for Power ” for many, many months now, and may know as much, if not more, than even the Alaska bloggers about the skeletons in Palin’s closet. He also knows quite a bit about Meghan Stapleton and how viciously she defended her boss and how aggressively she went after those who dared call Palin out on her bullshit. Anyhow if you click the title of this post Geoffrey will give you a behind the scenes tour of Meg Stapleton’s scorched earth approach to protecting the ex-governor. And while we are on the topic of Sarah I cannot resist adding this absolutely stunning smackdown from Jeb Bush : Bush praises her “charisma” but then says that she needs to add to this “some depth of understanding of the complexity of life”. She has an “innate ability to communicate and connect with folks” but seems to feel that that’s pretty much it. If she could build on that with, er, understanding of and insight into the world then she could be an “incredible candidate”. That may be one of the gentlest way I have ever heard anybody say: “Oh that woman is an idiot!” By the way, for those keeping score, Palin has still not said one word about Stapleton’s departure.
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Geoffrey Dunn is simply not buying Meg Stapleton’s excuse for leaping off of the Sarah Palin bandwagon.
