Near disaster.

I am reading The Lies of Sarah Palin, The Untold Story Behind Her Relentless Quest for Power by Geoffrey Dunn. Needless to say it's fascinating reading. But it's also disturbingly eye-opening. We know that John McCain made a huge mistake when he chose this nasty naif to be his Vice President. But that  he did so without completely vetting her is shocking. Long before he even heard of her she had left behind her a trail of lies, betrayals, vendettas, profound ignorance and neurotic behavior. Even a cursory investigation into her past should have excluded her from being his running mate. That anyone so flawed as Palin could go so far on looks, chutzpah and designer frames is amazing. And that she could fail so miserably and still have enough of a following that Fox News and other media outlets deemed her to have any value at all is a sad commentary on American society. Now she is 51 and relatively played out. But I doubt that we have heard that last of this narcissistic, attention-hungry harridan.