Just the other day I was thinking, “I wonder what’s up with Sarah Palin? I haven’t heard any good Palin gossip lately.”
Well, Vanity Fair to the rescue. In “Me and Mrs. Palin,” Levi Johnston unburdens himself and tells his version of what life was like in the Palin household after the election:
Sarah was sad for a while. She walked around the house pouting. I had assumed she was going to go back to her job as governor, but a week or two after she got back she started talking about how nice it would be to quit and write a book or do a show and make “triple the money.” It was, to her, “not as hard.” She would blatantly say, “I want to just take this money and quit being governor.” She started to say it frequently, but she didn’t know how to do it. When she came home from work, it seemed like she was more and more stressed out.
Does this sound believable? I’m not sure. But it does sort of sync up with this report from Politico a couple of days ago:
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin this week will begin accepting and rejecting the more than 1,070 invitations she has received for paid speeches and political appearances since she resigned from office, aides said.
….She’s about 85 percent finished with her book, due out this spring from HarperCollins. Then she’ll begin looking through the inch-and-a-half thick file her lawyer, Robert Barnett, has built of offers for network and cable pundit gigs, documentaries and business opportunities.
Levi also says that when Palin first heard Bristol was pregnant, she insisted over and over that they keep it a secret and then allow her and Todd to adopt the baby when it was born. I confess that I’m not sure this passes the credibility test either. But he’s pretty clear about it.
