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Sarah Palin, who didn't let her inability to tell Pennsylvania from West Virginia stop her from endorsing Florida Republican John Raese for U.S. Senate, is featured in The New York Times:
It was indicative of the competing demands on her time that her participation in the campaign's final days was weirdly anticlimactic. In the three weeks before the elections, Palin was bombarded with campaigning requests, many of them sent to her personal e-mail account. But her young son, Trig, was to have an operation - routine but still worrisome - on the Friday before Election Day, and so the mother was loath to commit to anything. Trig's procedure went well. That evening, Palin's political adviser, Andrew Davis, pulled an all-nighter arranging for her to make a Saturday drop-in on behalf of John Raese, the West Virginia senatorial candidate who was trailing the Democratic nominee, Joe Manchin, the popular governor. Raese's wife, Elizabeth, had issued a personal plea to Palin to save the day.
After Palin arrived in Charleston, and exhorted the state's "mountain mamas" to "keep Manchin in the mansion," she and Todd flew to New York on Saturday afternoon. She was still mulling over several invitations to campaign along the Eastern Seaboard. One was a Tea Party Express event in Wilmington, Del., in support of the controversial senatorial candidate Christine O'Donnell. Palin's endorsement of O'Donnell over a more-moderate candidate had been catalytic to her primary victory. Later Palin authorized an adviser, Randy Scheunemann, and two others to go to Wilmington to help O'Donnell in her debate preparation. But this particular event for the woman who proclaimed "I'm not a witch" was on Sunday - Halloween - and Palin prudently elected not to attend. Instead, she spent the afternoon watching the New York Jets play from the luxury box of the team's owner, Woody Johnson.
She's got the conservative thing of perpetual victimhood down which is why she speaks for so many rightwingers who think everyone else is being treated better than they are.
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