at this point i'm pretty sure she's an actual pathological liar - she's not so much telling untruths, as she is unable to differentiate between reality, and her own version which makes a better story. i have known pathologicals. they can't even tell you the truth about whether or not the clothes are in the dryer. and even if the answer doesn't matter & the lie is definitely going to be caught, they still just tell the version that most appeals to them rather than the real one.

either that or she's just evil. but the shit she makes up is so refutable, so well-documented, so absolutely blatantly made-up stories, that she'd have to be crazy to lie about it, you know?

I think she truly believes that she is entitled to this nomination. I think Bill spurs her on whenever she encounters a rare moment of self-examination and honesty, convincing her to keep going for "us". Sigh.