Nov 17, 2009 10:37 am US/Pacific
Palin Advisor: Campaign 'Dysfunctional, Surreal'


MIAMI (CBS) ―

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"There were so many distractions around Sarah Palin. She often had her children on the plane, the baby on the nook of her arm, her 6-year-old running up and down the aisle, the pregnant teenager," said Navarro. "There were a lot of things going on in her life as she was studying speech for each next event where she would land in two hours and speak in front of 30 thousand people."

It was so crazy that Navarro didn't get to brief Palin until the night before the interview while Palin and her 6-year-old daughter were getting pedicures.

"Sarah needed a 101 on so many issues. So you really had to start from step one explaining the differences between Latino and Hispanic," said Navarro. "She was very good at learning, though she was far from being an expert. She could dance around the subjects and could learn the catch phrases."

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"Her book is titled "Going Rogue", and she had gone rogue. She was the spaceship gone off course and flying in its own orbit," described Navarro. "She would change speeches headquarters sent her. Change the schedule, not stick to schedule."

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"She really trusted very few people by then and she clearly trusted him. She had a very close relationship with her children, with her daughters and she spent a lot of time with her baby. She would spend a lot of time holding him, talking to him, caressing him."

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"She really wasn't into reading papers. I never saw her reading papers or clips."

more...
http://cbs13.com/national/Sarah.Palin.Goin...


re McCain...

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"I've never heard him say anything bad. I haven't heard him say anything good, but never say anything bad," said Navarro.