If some of McCain’s staff members wonder about Sarah Palin’s emotionalism and if it’s caused by post-partum depression, is that sexism, or reality? Is it sexist to point out that Palin has emotions and wears high heels ? Expect Palin, if she and her spokes-

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creature Meg Stapleton choose to to respond to the Vanity Fair article about the former GOP VP hopeful, to take the angle that she’s being picked on for being like, a girl and stuff.

Former legislative director and close friend John Bitney has some things to say about Palin to Vanity Fair. Keep in mind Gov Palin fired Bitney for having an affair with Debbie Richter, one of her close friends who was  in charge of the Permanent Fund Dividend Division at the Department of Revenue, distributing oil revenues to Alaska residents:

It’s just a lot of emotions and stuff. I find it’s frustrating dealing with Sarah, because it seems we’re always dealing with emotional crap and we never seem to be able to focus on the business at hand that needs to be done. 

The Vanity Fair article also points out:

All the while, Palin was coping not only with the crazed life of any national candidate on the road but also with the young children traveling with her. Some top aides worried about her mental state: was it possible that she was experiencing postpartum depression? (Palin’s youngest son was less than six months old.)

 Is that sexism? Or is Palin simply a "whack job" and a "diva" as mentioned in the article? (Oh for some delish anecdotes and attributions..!) Maybe  staffers were hoping maybe this was just a passing phase?  Maybe Palin could help banish charges of sexism by banishing her husband who  lurks in the background, sitting in her office, acting as a close adviser.

I’m anticipating that Palin will also scream about how the media is raping Trig with their keyboard pounding fingers because of this choice item in the VF piece:

More than once in my travels in Alaska, people brought up, without prompting, the question of Palin’s extravagant self-regard. Several told me, independently of one another, that they had consulted the definition of “narcissistic personality disorder” in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders—“a pervasive pattern of grandiosity (in fantasy or behavior), need for admiration, and lack of empathy”—and thought it fit her perfectly. When Trig was born, Palin wrote an e-mail letter to friends and relatives, describing the belated news of her pregnancy and detailing Trig’s condition; she wrote the e-mail not in her own name but in God’s, and signed it “Trig’s Creator, Your Heavenly Father.”

 This is not a flattering article by any means, revealing a stubborn, know-it-all Palin,  hamstrung  McCain staffers, lack of due diligence.

Most importantly it points out the major splits within the GOP: Social conservatives vs fiscal conservatives, something we’re seeing played out now as the GOP "family values" platform have become a termite-ridden laughing stock.

Sarah Palin is a star in Evansville [at the world's largest right-to-life banquet] and all the many Evansvilles of America, but there is a big part of the Republican Party—the Wall Street wing, the national-security wing—in which she cuts no ice.