Ethics

Ladies and Gentlemen, Sarah Palin

By Ed Brayton

Her fellow Republicans and their "gotcha" questions:

A couple of weeks before the Alaska legislature began this year's session, a bipartisan group of state senators on a retreat a few hours from here invited Gov. Sarah Palin to join them. Accompanied by a retinue of advisers, she took a seat at one end of a conference table and listened passively as Gary Stevens, the president of the Alaska Senate, a former college history professor and a low-key Republican with a reputation for congeniality, expressed delight at her presence.

Would the governor, a smiling Stevens asked, like to share some of her plans and proposals for the coming legislative session?

Palin looked around the room and paused, according to several senators present. "I feel like you guys are always trying to put me on the spot," she said finally, as the room became silent.

I don't think politics has seen someone this vacuous since Sonny Bono was in Congress.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on February 25, 2009 (boomark / email).