Nicole Wallace: Sarah Palin Inspired Mentally Ill VP Character In New Book

A former McCain campaign adviser has some choice words for Sarah Palin.

Nicolle Wallace, who was also an aide for George W. Bush, told Time that Palin inspired the mentally-ill vice-presidential character in her new novel, "It's Classified".

Palin vacillated between extraordinary highs on the campaign stage — she ignited more enthusiasm than our side had seen at any other point — to debilitating lows. She was often withdrawn, uncommunicative and incapable of performing even the most basic tasks required of her job as McCain's running mate.

The decision to relocate debate prep from the campaign trail, which is where McCain did his prep, to Sedona, was to isolate her and help her overcome the shock of becoming an overnight celebrity. There certainly were discussions — not for long because of the arc the campaign took — but certainly there were discussions about whether, if they were to win, it would be appropriate for her to be sworn in.

This isn't the first time Wallace has unloaded on Palin. Last year, she called the former VP candidate "very prickly, very cynical." In 2009, she said Palin "hated me from the beginning."

Palin criticized McCain campaign staffers in her memoir, "Going Rogue", as controlling and judgmental. In one incident, Palin claims that Wallace trashed her wardrobe and insisted she buy designer clothes.

Wallace has dismissed Palin's book, referring to it as "based on fabrication" and "a bizarre fixation on things that everyone else has moved on from."

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[haval2]

08:52 AM on 10/10/2011

this is one of my favorite pictures of the loon. and she is indeed mentally ill. new eruption due any moment since she hasn't been in a news cycle for two days....

[lisaman]

10:35 AM on 10/10/2011

When I went to reply to your comment, it didn't come back to the article and I had no way to fan you so I came back to this page to find and fan you without their help! Why do they keep messing with the comments? It seems every week I have another problem.

Anyway, fanned and faved !!

[haval2]

11:45 AM on 10/10/2011

faved again and thanks!

[ALPHAKITA]

05:09 PM on 10/07/2011

McCain, you'll never be forgiven for this.
NEVE, NEVER, NEVER!

There were worthy contenders; yet, you gave us THIS.

You need to apologize to the nation in A PUBLIC FORUM.

[elamatt]

01:15 PM on 10/10/2011

Yes, that's the ONLY way he'll ever gain a modicum of respect back from millions of us!

[YahBetcha]

03:53 PM on 10/07/2011

McCain should be Impeached for defrauding the USA!

[notakochdealer]

05:24 PM on 10/07/2011

and imposing Palin on us.

[bdcelina777]

03:01 PM on 10/07/2011

Palin likes to tour on her bus, it reminds her of a trailer house.

[Soulmentor]

02:05 PM on 10/07/2011

So much chatter about what might have been and yes, thank God we dodged that.....not bullet, but a bunker buster bomb. McCain was/is old and not in best of health. We knew that during the campaign. Tho he never fully released his medical records, there were many hints of ill health and it was obvious just watching his behaviors at times. So what would have happened if they had won and he died in office?!
Does anyone doubt that there would have been some far right religious/political fanatics who might have toyed with the idea of somehow hastening that event, perhaps even in a way that looked natural?
We dodged a bunker buster.

[redsongia]

01:54 PM on 10/07/2011

Mentally ill is putting it mildly.

[WHTrout]

01:43 PM on 10/07/2011

I think Gore Vidal had the best take on Palin. A couple years ago, in a departure from the regular format of "Real Time," Bill Maher interviewed the great Vidal for half an hour. Maher asked him, "What do you think of Sarah Palin?" Vidal responded, "I don't." Would that we could make her go away by simply not thinking about her.

[lisaman]

01:36 PM on 10/07/2011

That is the best picture I have ever seen of Sarah.

[haval2]

08:53 AM on 10/10/2011

i just admitted this was one of my favorite pictures of her...great minds... fanned and faved

[LogicalMathMan]

01:32 PM on 10/07/2011

Mentally-ILL Character: MIC....mmmmm

I had to read the article to find out who was the MIC, McCain or SP.

[StarGazr5992]

12:56 PM on 10/07/2011

It's a frighting to think is they had won..scarey in fact

[ljimlong]

12:52 PM on 10/07/2011

Scary that this person might have been just a heartbeat away.

[ChaCubed]

10:17 AM on 10/07/2011

This is one of those stories which makes me more angry everytime I think about it.

- We HAVE to do psychological evaluations on candidates; and after they're in office, we have to do psychological evaluations each year. The old joke that people lose their minds once they start working in Washington isn't funny.

- This person was a part of a team of people, backed by big-money-sources, whose purpose it was to HIDE THE FACT THAT THEIR CANDIDATE WAS STOOPIT AS A STONE AND KWAZZEE AS A BEDBUG. It boggles the mind and raises two more points:

- What is it going to take for the GOPnTP voters to learn how toxic and how destructive their party has become, to the point that they truly do not care, either about the American people or this country?

- If this doesn't meet the definition of a treasonous act, the definition has to be changed.

[redsongia]

01:51 PM on 10/07/2011

I have to agree. Nicole Wallace is the LAST person who should be trying to assume the moral high ground in this debacle.

[dayzee10]

09:15 AM on 10/07/2011

I would imagine the late great George Carlin would describe Sister Sarah as "EFFIN NUTS!!!"

[ZeBoss]

02:15 PM on 10/07/2011

I'm sure he would also use some of the other 6 words you can't say on TV to describe her.

[beckpod1]

08:30 AM on 10/07/2011

Sarah is ahead of her time....it will take more time before we are so dumbed down to see any value in her.....

[JrayTo]

07:40 AM on 10/07/2011

Didn't she also inspire Children of the Corn?

[EuGeneTherapy]

09:40 AM on 10/07/2011

Actually, I think she inspired "Idiocracy".