Key Excerpts from Maureen Dowd's Palin Column
"Usually we don't find that exquisite battiness in our leaders until they've been battered by sordid scandals like Watergate (Nixon), gnawing problems like Vietnam (L.B.J.), or scary threats like biological terrorism (Cheney).... The White House can drive its inhabitants loopy. So at least Sarah Palin is ahead of the curve on that one."
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"What looked like a secret wedding turned out to be a public unraveling as the G.O.P. implosion continued: Sarah wanted everyone to know that she's not having fun and people are being mean to her and she doesn't feel like finishing her first term as governor.
She can hunt wolves from the air and field-dress a moose, but she fears being a lame duck? Some brickbats over her ethics and diva turns as John McCain's running mate, and that dewy skin turns awfully thin."
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"Why 'milk it,' as she put it, when you can quit it? 'Only dead fish go with the flow,' she said, while cold fish can blow out of town. Leaving Alaska in the lurch is best for Alaska. She can better 'effect change' in government from outside government. She can fulfill her promise of 'efficiencies and effectiveness' by deserting Juneau midway through her term — and taking her tanning bed with her."
