To Sarah Palin's Credit...

...she was the last one into the pool on the whole "Let's reject as much of the stimulus DREAD PORKULUS as possible! GOP GOVERNORS GOOOOOOO!" thing.

The bad news for her was that she had the worst excuse of the bunch and now it's coming back to majorly bite her in the ass via the Politico Sunday Hack Job.

A seemingly unending series of public relations gaffes has Sarah Palin loyalists frustrated and worried she is diminishing her stature. And they blame an inner circle they say is composed of not-ready-for-primetime players.

Interviews with Alaska and Washington-based GOP political professionals who are familiar with the Palin operation describe the governor’s team as a gang that couldn’t shoot straight, a staff whose failure to execute basic political maneuvers too often entangles the governor in awkward and embarrassing situations that could have easily been avoided.

The state of confusion is compounded by two separate Palin spheres that don’t communicate with each other, one based in the governor’s office and another based in the D.C.-area, where Palin’s political action committee is located—and the incongruous presence of a high-profile Democratic trial lawyer among her political advisers.

The lawyer, John Coale, is a former supporter of Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign who became a Palin confidante as his wife, Fox News host Greta Van Susteren, interviewed the former GOP vice presidential nominee and her family numerous times during and after the election.

Their presence around Palin has become Topic A among many of her allies as well as other Republican insiders who are mystified as to why an anti-abortion rights conservative who ran against Washington elites is now turning to a pair of capital insiders for counsel.

Because she really, really, really wants to be President, you twits...and the sooner she gets out of this Alaska dump, the happier she will be. She's hedging her bets on her advisors, folks. I don't blame her, it's not like the ones in 2008 gave her good advice or anything.

Of course, now Alaskans are increasingly pissed at her for rejecting stimulus money and at least she's picking up on that now, which once again seems to put her light years ahead of her fellow GOP governors. Figure that one out.