Sarah Palin's revenge: New book goes after McCain campaign aides in detail

Details and excerpts from Sarah Palin's new book are starting to trickle out, confirming expectations that Palin would hit hard at Sen. John McCain's (R-Ariz.) aides who she felt treated her unfairly during the 2008 presidential campaign.

Friday morning, the Drudge Report posted an excerpt in which Palin more or less throws aide Nicole Wallace under the bus for setting up the disastrous Katie Couric interview.

"From the beginning, Nicolle [Wallace] pushed for Katie Couric and the CBS Evening News," Palin writes.

She goes on:

Nicolle went on to explain that Katie really needed a career boost. “She just has such low self-esteem,” Nicolle said. She added that Katie was going through a tough time. “She just feels she can’t trust anybody.”

I was thinking, And this has to do with John McCain’s campaign how?

Nicolle said, “She wants you to like her.”

Hearing all that, I almost started to feel sorry for her. Katie had tried to make a bold move from lively morning gal to serious anchor, but the new assignment wasn’t going very well.

The Associated Press scored the first copy of the book, and started reporting anecdotes last night. Palin, for example, claimed that the McCain campaign charged her $50,000 to be vetted. McCain aides vehemently denied that, claiming they only charged her for legal fees to defend her from ethics complaints pending during the campaign.

Palin also accuses the McCain campaign of glorifying her daughter's pregnancy, the AP reports:

Palin shares behind-the-scene moments when the nation learned her teen daughter Bristol was pregnant, how she rewrote the statement prepared for her by the McCain campaign — only to watch in horror as a TV news anchor read the original McCain camp statement, which, in Palin's view, glamorized and endorsed her daughter's situation. 

McCain's aides have responded with exasperation — and anonymity.

"John McCain offered her the opportunity of a lifetime, and during the campaign it seems that, for all of her mistakes, she is searching for people to blame," an anonymous top aide told The Washington Post. "We don't need to go through this again."