I don’t know what a Diva is. I am not sure if paying $150,000 for clothes, paying over $22,000 for two weeks of makeup, or $10,000 for a fortnight of hair styling makes one a Diva. So, I will rely on the McCain campaign to explain it to me. Of Sarah Palin, a McCain advisor who wishes to remain anonymous had this to say:
"She is a diva. She takes no advice from anyone," said this McCain adviser. "She does not have any relationships of trust with any of us, her family or anyone else.
"Also, she is playing for her own future and sees herself as the next leader of the party. Remember: Divas trust only unto themselves, as they see themselves as the beginning and end of all wisdom."
This after The Politico reported that Palin had begun to "go rogue":
Four Republicans close to Palin said she has decided increasingly to disregard the advice of the former Bush aides tasked to handle her, creating occasionally tense situations as she travels the country with them. Those Palin supporters, inside the campaign and out, said Palin blames her handlers for a botched rollout and a tarnished public image — even as others in McCain’s camp blame the pick of the relatively inexperienced Alaska governor, and her public performance, for McCain’s decline.
"She’s lost confidence in most of the people on the plane," said a senior Republican who speaks to Palin, referring to her campaign jet. He said Palin had begun to "go rogue" in some of her public pronouncements and decisions.
"I think she’d like to go more rogue," he said.
I am guessing that being mavericky is ok in a team of mavericks, but going rogue is apparently bad. This may be what Chuck Todd described last week as "pulling a Bulworth". Todd, in a remarkable bit of candid television, described the palpable tension between John McCain and Sarah Palin. It appears that his on-air comments have now opened the floodgates at Camp McCain. Now the McCain campaign is gone from pulling a Bullworth to full bore Lord Of The Flies.
