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And you thought you were sick of Sarah Palin and her book tour blitz. Washington insiders wish she’d go back to shooting wildlife in Alaska. “I just wish she’d go away,” one GOP operative told us, echoing sentiments we’ve heard and read about from others. “I’m a conservative Republican, and I’ve had enough of her.” And while Palin has some serious star power — witness those book sales — the insider thinks mainstream Republicans should think twice before trying to tap into all that Palin enthusiasm as a money/energy source for their own races. “It’s not worth it.”

Depictions ‘took place entirely in her imagination,’ says Wallace. NBC NEWS and NEWS SERVICES NEW YORK - Former McCain campaign senior adviser Nicolle Wallace says Sarah Palin's book "Going Rogue" is "based on fabrications," and that the basis for Palin’s depictions of her and former McCain campaign director Steve Schmidt as villains "took place entirely in her imagination." In a statement to The Rachel Maddow Show, the former McCain spokesperson repeatedly used the word "fiction" to describe Palin's narrative and echoed criticisms by other former McCain staffers. "She [Palin] probably has a legitimate complaint that things could have been better...