A Party Of One

Todd Purdum's profile Sarah Palin came out today and has caused quite the uproar. It mostly retraces what we already knew. One of the blunter bits:

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.”

Chris Goode's reaction:

Purdum's article reads like a post-mortem, but it's not: Palin's political fortunes are still very much alive. A recent round of polling showed Palin neck and neck with Mike Huckabee as the most popular politician among Republicans nationwide.

I think she's done and has been for some time.

--PA