Pareene uses pitch-perfect understatement to describe it:
Sarah Palin is a person! She's done drugs and pissed people off and slept with people, like 90 percent of American humans. If Sarah Palin was smart she'd dismiss the book with a chuckle, say nobody's perfect, laugh off the "gossip," and move on.
Sarah Palin might not be smart.
Actually, I think she is smart in an intuitive, practical way – smarter than she's often given credit for. You don't vault from housewife to veep nominee without smarts. What she doesn't have is any impulse control, or larger sense of perspective, or a strong ego. So she lashes out.
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