Sarah pretends that she actually parents her youngest child:
Life With Trig: Sarah Palin on Raising a Special-Needs ChildQuote:
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Every parent struggles with juggling the commitments of work and family. Women, especially, know this well. Over the years,
I’ve learned that women can “have it all,” just not all at once. 
For me, it was a lesson learned through the school of hard knocks, but it was one my own mother made me aware of when she calmly told me that as a working mom in the rough-and-tumble political arena, I would have to make tough choices. We all do.
In making decisions about my career, I’ve put my family first, and I’ve never regretted it, although it has meant periodically putting particular pursuits on the back burner. snip.....
Many everyday activities like doctor’s appointments and social gatherings and travel accommodations and even mealtimes and a solid night of sleep are that much more difficult, but
at the end of the day I wouldn’t trade the relative difficulties for any convenience or absence of fear. God knew what he was doing when he blessed us with Trig. We went from fear of the unknown to proudly displaying a bumper sticker sent to us that reads: “My kid has more chromosomes than your kid!” He may not be the next Wayne Gretzky, but our hearts are filled with so much pride watching Trig giggle with his sisters’ puppies, or sway to the rhythm of his Little Angels DVDs, it’s as if he were hoisting the Stanley Cup.
Granted,
I know I may be more fortunate than others to have loving friends and a big, supportive family I call on to help, including a husband who spends many sleepless nights with this restless little one. (And Todd actually makes Trig’s puréed baby food!)
Others aren’t so fortunate, and in our thankfulness I am made more compassionate toward others who have less. [I just threw up a little bit in my mouth.]I often think now, what would we do without Trig? He’s our “everything that really matters.”
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My family knows that Trig will face struggles that few of us will ever have to endure, including people who can be so cruel to those not deemed “perfect” by society. The cruelty is more than made up for, though, when someone simply smiles at our son. Nothing makes me prouder. As I explained in a Thanksgiving article, I notice it happens often in airports. Travelers passing by will do a double-take when they see him, perhaps curious about the curious look on his face; or perhaps my son momentarily exercises an uncontrollable motion that takes the passerby by surprise. Perhaps, as an innocent and candid child announced when she first met Trig, they think, “He’s awkward.” But when that traveler pauses to look again and smiles, and maybe tells me what a handsome boy I have, I swell with pride. I am so thankful for their good hearts. They represent the best in our country, and their kindness shows the real hope we need today.
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Derision for the media and the "establishment" is nothing new for Palin.
But deriding campaign consultants? That's a uniquely Palin grievance. She attacked them for trying to tell candidates what to say even though "they are not willing, or able, to run for dog catcher." It was a uniquely Palin perspective, a product of her 2008 experience.
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It makes sense, defeating Barack Obama is the obvious priority, but
it surely must be the case that Palin's own sense of post-election victimization informs this.To be sure, the speech did show what
Palin is effective at: articulating the conservative zeitgeist. Her litany of indictments against Barack Obama was long and extensive, but the most unexpected rhetorical flourishes came from her condemnation of the city of Washington, DC:
While America struggles, Washington prospers. … They don't mine, they don't drill, they don't harvest, they produce nothing. The services they provide, they produce dependency.
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Palin's speech was a lot like CPAC itself: focused on Obama, confident in the rightness of it's position, and scornful of what Washington DC "does to people." Doubts clearly exist about presumptive favorite Mitt Romney but at least at the conference, the public message is that defeating the President is the most important goal. For better or for worse, Palin's speech accurately reflected the mood of CPAC.
This woman is crazy. She has made a living off of complaining about Washington ... the very city in which she hoped to reign as VP. The irony is just too much.
Palin is going to be very, very unhappy when Game Change is released. She knows that her campaign consultants fed many stories to the authors of Game Change. She has never specifically addressed the stories that have come out from her campaign consultants. Her 3 year whinefest about her campaign consultants tells me that every single story is true.
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