BY Helen Kennedy, DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Monday, January 11th 2010, 4:33 AM
Sarah Palin is not just as an ignoramus who believed Saddam Hussein was behind 9/11, but also as possibly mentally unstable.
"Game Change," the 2008 deconstruction, says the stress of vaulting onto the national stage caused Palin to have wild mood swings.
"One minute, Palin would be her perky self; the next she would fall into a strange blue funk," the authors write.
The morning of her ill-fated CBS interview with Katie Couric, Palin - "her eyes glassy and dead" - was unresponsive to attempts to prep her as she was being made up.
"As they were about to set off to meet Couric, Palin announced 'I hate this makeup' - smearing it off her face, messing up her hair, complaining she looked fat," the book relates.
Palin went on to give answers to Couric that were so incoherent the interview permanently damaged her.
Palin went into a tailspin. She stopped eating or sleeping, and drank only a half a can of diet soda a day, recounts the book written by John Heilemann of New York magazine and Mark Halperin of Time magazine.
"When her aides tried to quiz her she would routinely shut down - chin on her chest, arms folded, eyes cast to the floor, speechless and motionless, lost in what those around her described as a kind of catatonic stupor," the book says.
"If I had known everything I know now, I would not have done this," the book quotes Palin as saying.
She talked often about her baby, Trig, who spent most of the time in Alaska, and some John McCain aides thought she might be suffering postpartum depression.
When the campaign took her to Arizona to prep for the veep debate, McCain's staff made sure a doctor friend was on hand "to observe her," the book says.
Another Daily News article indicates palin will join Fox News as a contributor. The former Alaska Governor has signed a multi-year deal to serve as a contributor to Fox News, effective immediately.
"I am thrilled to be joining the great talent and management team at Fox News," Palin said in a statement. "It's wonderful to be part of a place that so values fair and balanced news."
Rightardia thinks this announcement may signal the end of Palin's political aspirations. We hope so. We have heard Palin described as a diva, a narcissist and now mentally unstable. Although she may be a delightful person with great stage presence, she is clearly not cut out to be president.
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