Top McCain Aides Come Clean: Sarah Palin is Mentally Ill

[Donnachaidh]

http://www.politicususa.com/en/tmccain-aides-sarah-palin-mentally-ill/comment-page-1#comment-129922

In the course of discussing the possibility of Sarah Palin entering the GOP Presidential field, Nicolle Wallace told Rachel Maddow that the fictional Vice Presidential character in her new book, It’s Classified, was inspired by Sarah Palin. This Vice President is “cuckoo for cocoa puffs” and resigns in shame.

It’s almost three years since Republican strategists Steve Schmidt and Nicolle Wallace were telling us that Sarah Palin had been vetted, that she was a great choice, that she was ready to be President. Now that the truth has come out, the story of the behind the scenes real Sarah Palin should serve as a warning for all voters.

Yes, your instincts were correct. Sarah Palin is not well, but then neither is the Republican Party.

Watch the video from MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow show:

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[madrchsod]

1. sarah palin is not mentally ill....

she is fully aware of what she is doing.

[Fire Walk With Me]

2. And what she is doing is harming others and if she ever gets power, harming many.

So, she is evidently evil. She is knowingly working to harm others.

[kayakjohnny]

5. I'm not so sure about that. She certainly has some type of disorder.

Weather it's clinical or not.

Something is really off with her, but I wouldn't say she's in tune with it.

There's a screw loose and it's up to smarter people than me to diagnose.

She certainly isn't 'all there'.

My take, anyway.

[madrchsod]

6. she`s a grifter...which is some sort of a disorder ..

[Marie Marie]

11. Sorry but I disagree. She IS mentally ill but then so are her supporters

which enables her to do what she is doing. It is because they are also insane that she is able to continue to make money off these morons in spite of her lack of credibility on anything. That and the MSM's insane fascination with her.

[jberryhill]

14. No, she has a severe personality disorder

[hifiguy]

23. Disagree - she's a malignant narcissist

and definitely has some sort of personality disorder. At best, she's borderline PD.

[WorseBeforeBetter]

3. I'd say most of DU had her pegged the moment she strutted across the stage...

to accept the VP nomination. If not then, at least as soon as she opened her mouth. But DU isn't the real world and no one listens to us. ;-)

[madrchsod]

8. thom hartman does...gave us a plug this morning...

[WillowTree]

4. People's preoccupation with this woman is positively mystifying.

[kayakjohnny]

9. As well as her existence in the political arena to begin with.

[steve2470]

7. mentally ill.. not really

Not very bright ? Yes. Antisocial and narcissistic traits with a big dollop of greedy ? Yeppers.

[NNN0LHI]

10. When I seen her lugging her baby around as a political stage prop was the tip off to me

No rational thinking person would ever do that.

It takes a sick mind to do that. Same goes for her husband.

Don

[Raschel]

12. Koo Koo for Coco Puffs:

[gordianot]

13. You can be mentally ill and be aware of what you are doing. Some are aware some are not.

People who are mentally ill are covered by a large tent.

[jberryhill]

15. And some of the pegs aren't nailed down well.

[Douglas Carpenter]

16. some people confuse the legal term insanity with a more medical term - mentally ill

Insanity as in the legal phrase, "not guilty by reason of insanity" - is a determination that a person is not responsible for their actions because they are so completely removed from reality that they do not grasp what they are doing and cannot be held responsible for their actions. Mentally ill is as you say a very large category ranging from clinical depression to paranoid schizophrenia. A person may very well be mentally ill even psychotic and still be aware of what they are doing and still have control over their actions. I suspect Sarah Palin does know what she is doing even if she Cuckoo.

[jberryhill]

17. What I can't figure out...

How is it that people with personality disorders can have a high degree of comprehension of personality disorders, and not simply recognize and compensate for it. (assuming they are not in denial)

My wife the psychologist says, "Many of those people study psychology, and some become psychologists."

[gordianot]

18. A certain test has a question about yelling fire in a theater.

The purpose of the question is not to see if you are obsessed with fire. Yet the responder who hurt people with fire when asked the question said "Wow". Now did this person understand not to yell fire, probably? In his thought process this is exciting and gives a glimmer of what is going on. Take a stab at it this person he knew it was wrong to yell fire.

You have large audiences of unstable and angry people and you whip them into a frenzy by suggesting a candidate is "palling around with terrorists". Your crowds become increasingly hostile to your opponent as you repeat lies and make suggestions about the common lie of the day (provided by FOX news). Now your elderly running mate becomes alarmed at the crowd frenzy worked up by his running mate. His thought processes are not the same as her thought process in that it is not right to appeal to implied bigotry. As the old man encounters the frenzy whipped up by his cohort he corrects it and is booed by his own supporters. Although both of these actors are no longer on center stage the same audience who lacks concern for other humans, is willing to accept lies, has violent tendency's, PERSISTS.

Very different thoughts are becoming acceptable thanks to the Coo-Coo.

[Douglas Carpenter]

19. someone once said, "schizophrenia is rare in individuals - but common in groups"

Unfortunately a lot of dangerous behavior and crazy thinking which if practiced by a single individual would be viewed as psychotic if not insane - becomes accepted as normal if there is a group of people around to support it, reinforce it and declare it against all evidence to be normal and even right.

[Major Hogwash]

20. Holy BeGeezus! I've been vindicated!! Hallelujah!! On another forum the admin threatened to ban me

For saying this very thing, just this year, on New Year's Day!!!

Donna, you are now my newest BFF!!

[pacalo]

21. Mental issues is possible, but I'm thinking more that her intellectual & emotional

maturities have been stunted prematurely. It's quite possible that she is retarded instead of mentally ill.

[gordianot]

22. I have known many cognitively disabled citizens who are very caring excellent judges of character.

They would help you in need without question. Their cognitive processes were delayed in development and perhaps abstract reasoning is severely delayed or absent. Dealing with them on a concrete one on one level is a joy and are well able to understand conventional morality. If anything the Cognitively Disabled or Mentally Retarded serve as example that anti social behavior is the development of something else other than cognition. For those who ascribe to multiple intelligence theory would agree that inter and intra personal intelligence is lacking or did not develop. Being semi retired I sit on the fence.