Sarah Palin: "Amateurs built the ark. Professionals built the Titanic.”

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‘Blind Allegiance to Sarah Palin,’ by former staffer Frank Bailey

By Steven Levingston, Monday, May 23, 12:29 PM

BLIND ALLEGIANCE TO SARAH PALIN

A Memoir of Our Tumultuous Years

By Frank Bailey with Ken Morris & Jeanne Devon

Howard. 383 pp. $26

Frank Bailey joined Sarah Palin’s campaign for governor of Alaska in its earliest days, showing up at her shabby headquarters in Anchorage with a paintbrush, toilet bowl cleaner and hammer in November 2005 and becoming part of her “Rag Tag Team,” as she fondly dubbed her original inner circle. He’d grown up poor in Kodiak and worked as an airline baggage handler and middle manager. In Palin he found a leader who elegantly fused faith and politics. She exuded charm, energy and idealism, and, most important, she inspired trust. Bailey was politically smitten: “In my mind, God had chosen her, and this was His will.”

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As her soaring popularity proved, her skills lay in firing up a crowd. And, Bailey asserts, she was happy to leave knowledge of the issues to others. As governor she created an editorial team to write op-eds on her behalf then remained detached from the process, refusing to study the issues or even familiarize herself with what her advisers turned out in her name. “She wanted credit without caring about even a fundamental understanding,” Bailey writes.

In his fervor, Bailey at first didn’t care that Palin lacked expertise — she had common sense. As she once e-mailed him, “Remember: amateurs built the ark. Professionals built the Titanic.” But Bailey came to doubt his devotion, particularly after the presidential election defeat when Palin seemed to care little for governing Alaska and far more about cashing in on her celebrity. “Sarah hadn’t ever really been a full-time governor before being nabbed by McCain,” he writes, recalling that before the vote she wrote to him: “Pray that we win so we can all get out of that place.”

[sly_wolf 199]

Her wisdom is just so asstounding.

[The Dude 206]

Her wisdom is just so asstounding.

You must refudiate that statement!!!!

[웃 910]

Her #### is too

[scandal 951]

I think she can see the Titanic from her front porch. Amazing eyesight, that one.

[Usui Takumi 1,562]

I think she can see the Titanic from her front porch. Amazing eyesight, that one.

Is her house that under water?