Palin is a Narcissist, Possibly God

Todd S. Purdum has a long article in the current Vanity Fair on Sarah Palin. Full of good bits but the following paragraph, for me, best brings back memories of the time when she was McCain’s running mate. Regardless of the veracity of Purdum’s remarks, the sheer outlandishness of it all, the extent to which she is so obviously a “nut job” (to quote McCain himself, apparently) makes me, in an admittedly sick sorta way, look forward to 2012, when she might run, just so we can watch the Republican party make a massive fool of itself all over again.

More than once in my travels in Alaska, people brought up, without prompting, the question of Palin’s extravagant self-regard. Several told me, independently of one another, that they had consulted the definition of “narcissistic personality disorder” in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders—“a pervasive pattern of grandiosity (in fantasy or behavior), need for admiration, and lack of empathy”—and thought it fit her perfectly. When Trig was born, Palin wrote an e-mail letter to friends and relatives, describing the belated news of her pregnancy and detailing Trig’s condition; she wrote the e-mail not in her own name but in God’s, and signed it “Trig’s Creator, Your Heavenly Father.”

~ by bsuryab on June 30, 2009.