Sarah Palin's emails underscore polarizing effect

Los Angeles Times ^ | June 11, 2011 | By Matea Gold and Tom Hamburger, Washington Bureau

[Cincinatus' Wife]

.....Taken together, the email correspondence underscores Palin's polarizing effect long before she was a ubiquitous figure on the national political stage.

Palin's disgust with the media was apparent as soon as she was tapped to be Sen. John McCain's running mate — a decision that happened with a suddenness that seemed to take her and her aides by surprise as much as it did much of the country.

"Can you believe it!" Palin wrote to one aide who had sent her a congratulatory email. "He told me yesterday — it moved fast! Pray! I love you."

She was much less in love with the media swarm that came with the nomination. She and aides objected when a blizzard of questions from reporters included queries about her favorite poem and the tanning bed in the governor's mansion. "Arghhhh!" Palin responded, noting she had paid for the tanning bed and was "dismayed at the media."

The darker side of her newfound fame was evident too, as the governor fielded several vicious threats against her life — all of which she forwarded to her aides without comment.

At the other end of the spectrum, the messages include many adoring missives from supporters around the country who, even before she joined the 2008 presidential ticket, saw her as a rising star.

[screaminsunshine]

Her most important task is the appt. of AG and FBI to clean out the nest of socialist thieves.

[screaminsunshine]

Wondering what to do if the GOP nominates another RINO. I was thinking of working overseaes and moving to the South Pacific if Obama got back in without a fight.