Some very revealing tidbits from the book "Sarah From Alaska" and the REAL reason Sarah quit.

Here are just a few of the incredible quotes from this book. Oh this is REALLY good stuff!

— The awkward goodbye with McCain: McCain and Palin parted ways that night after she saw him getting into a Chevy Suburban outside the Arizona hotel where the campaign had gathered on election night. The conversation went like this: “‘John? Is that you?’ Palin asked. Cindy [McCain] was already in the car, and the senator had just given a final hug to his press secretary and personal aide, Brooke Buchanan. He spun around. ‘Oh, hey. How are you, Sarah?’ ‘Are you leaving?’ ‘Yup, we’re out of here.’ Palin paused. ‘Okay, well, good night.’ ‘Yes, good night. We’re headed back to the house.’ The now former running mates exchanged final pat-on-the-back hugs and a muffled thank you or two.

Sounds like the end of a bad blind date where both people realize they cannot stand each other.

– The really awkward part: After the McCains had left, Palin wanted to take pictures with her family on the hotel ballroom stage, though a lot of TV crews were still filming. McCain staffers got wind of it and freaked out, thinking Palin was going to give her concession speech after all. After a round of frantic telephone calls, instructions filtered down from McCain campaign manager Steve Schmidt to turn the lights down. Palin stayed posing on the stage anyway, prompting senior McCain staffer Carla Eudy to tell Palin aide Jason Recher: “You never had control of her. Get control of her! Get her ass off stage!” Recher’s response? “The campaign ended tonight, and so did you.

Standing on stage having your picture taken when suddenly the lights are turned out, just a little too subtle for Sarah Palin.

–Telling the kids: Palin couldn’t bring herself to tell her children she had accepted McCain’s offer to be his running mate. “The governor decided not to deliver the life-changing news herself. Instead, she asked Steve Schmidt to tell her children that their worlds were about to be turned upside down.” There’s no explanation for why this happened – but Conroy and Walshe do point out that the timeline means the children weren’t asked for their permission, as Palin suggested during the campaign.

What? You mean Sarah did NOT gather the family and ask them if she should accept McCain's offer to run as his VP? There was no "Hell yeah!" from one unnamed participant? You mean she LIED?

– Two telling comments: “I just don’t want to go back to Alaska,” Palin said during an argument over whether she could bring up Obama’s controversial former pastor, Jeremiah Wright. In an email, she referred to the “VP campaign,” which Walshe and Conroy write “seemed at odds with the unified team that theoretically made up the McCain/Palin ticket.”

"I don't want to go back to Alaska. I don't care what kind of racially charged, libelous statements I have to make about that terrorist loving Muslim, just keep me the hell out of Wasilla!"

--A growing preoccupation with bloggers: There’s not a lot about why Palin resigned this past summer as Alaska governor after less than a full term, except that it had something to do with “the extent to which she had allowed her critics in Alaska to get to her. The woman who had steadfastly faced down powerful oil companies two years earlier had now become preoccupied with bloggers.”

What? She left office because of the Alaska bloggers? Holy crap!

You know what's funny is that I figured out that Sarah was reading my blog sometime after the election. There were a couple things that she did which seemed in direct response to posts I had written. But still....to see it in a book.....wow!

I have just one thing to say.

Good Morning Sarah! I hope you slept well. What is on the agenda for today?

Update: I almost forgot about this interview with Sarah Palin back in January.

You can really see that she flat does NOT like those "anonymous bloggers". And yet WHO is she talking to?

P.S. Listen for the loud horn that blares around the 1:21 mark. Did you notice that Trig did not react?

Update 2: Apparently TeamPalin tried to intimidate the authors of this book into leaving Alaska.

Update 3: More from the authors here. (H/T to Kajo.)