Sarah Palin's book is on the fast track
Announced just four months ago, Sarah Palin's memoir, "Going Rogue: An American Life," will be on shelves in time for Christmas. In fact, with a release date of Nov. 17, it'll be in stores by Thanksgiving -- that's instead of the originally scheduled spring release date.
Our Top of the Ticket blog reports:
Harper publisher Jonathan Burnham says the ex-governor obviously invested herself deeply -- and also quite quickly -- in penning the 400-page volume and it contains "fascinating details."
Some of which, no doubt, will not be so fascinating to some within the failed campaign camp of Arizona Sen. John McCain, who picked her as the first GOP female on a presidential ticket in an obvious bid for the Arctic vote.
Many in the mainstream media will also be eager to see how the Republican hockey mom praises them for their objective portrayals of her all last fall.
Harper, a division of HarperCollins, says it will print 1.5 million copies. That's a hefty print run -- the same as that for the fall's previous big political memoir, Ted Kennedy's "True Compass."
-- Carolyn Kellogg
Photo: Al Grillo / Associated Press
shouldnt' the book be called going ROUGE?
Posted by: cawnaw | September 28, 2009 at 05:25 PM
When liberals can't bring intellectual prowess to the debate, they pull the race card. When someone with substance shows up their scared demeanor results in an over the top attack to demonize. It is in the playbook. Sarah made a beautiful move by dropping out of political office as she can no longer be harassed and demonized. When she quit, the left and state media said it was the end of her political career. She is like Obi-Wan "Ben" Kenobi. When the left thought they had killed her, she became even stronger.
Posted by: TheBigPicture | September 28, 2009 at 05:40 PM
Crayons sold separately. Mavericky? You betcha.
Posted by: dcb in nyc | September 28, 2009 at 06:04 PM
I marvel in the fact that a person who showed so little intellectual capacity or knowledge is able to write a book (or better, sell a book) and similarly is able to go on highly lucrative speaking engagements.
Mrs. Palin clearly has leveraged her substance-less opinions into a very profitable brand. Admirable yet also frightening.
Posted by: J M | September 28, 2009 at 06:12 PM
Yep, better get that book out NOW, before her last few minutes of fame expire. I can imagine her publishers freaked out when she quit as governor.
Posted by: mavisdarling | September 28, 2009 at 06:18 PM
RE: TheBigPicture
Wow. Now that someone said Sarah's going "rouge", you say that's playing the race card? And also, that comment about "intellectual prowess"... you can't seriously mean Sarah?
What planet are you on? It's time they took you back to the Saratorium.
Posted by: mavisdarling | September 28, 2009 at 06:22 PM
Watch out, boys, here she comes... again. The reappearance of Ms. Palin will certainly provide more bad PR for "real" flight attendants... if you know what I mean.
A careul reader surely eill ask who might be the ghost writer. Last time I checked, Sarah was not particularly well-spoken or literate in her own right (and writing), don'cha know.
The advance text of the book suggests that she will not acknowledge literary or editorial assistance. More mendacty by implication from this opportunistic, political hack and her not-too-well-schooled followers
Posted by: Keneau Arnet | September 28, 2009 at 08:00 PM
Ok silly,
"rouge" as in too much makeup.
Tammy Faye had better application skills.
and come to think of it, Tammy Faye never quit.
Posted by: Cawnaw | September 28, 2009 at 08:12 PM
400 pages, that long.
What font size did they use?
Will a version for educated people be published?
Posted by: zd | September 28, 2009 at 09:46 PM
Enough of the weak and cliche condescension toward Palin. You all fail to acknowledge that she is getting through to a demographic with devastating effectiveness. Level of education has never, hear me clearly, never been a prerequisite for any office in this land. All it takes is clever shrewdness and the ability to keep getting up after being knocked down. It can't happen here? Don't be fools.
Posted by: garth | September 29, 2009 at 06:43 AM
The sad part of the story is, that there are a lot of people out there that will take the book literally and hold it up like a bible.
How can anyone take a person serious, that abandons her job in mid term. How are the people of the great state of Alaska feel that the person they voted for left them hanging high and dry. If money was the issue, than it is even more despicable what she did. She just proved to have her own interest before the interest of the office she held. Why would then anyone in their right mind even consider her for a higher office. Oh - sorry, I don't want to ruin her ability to make even more money for the possible first president of the USA to quit just because the income will be so much higher.
Her intellect is lower than most world leaders and she would make Bush look like a genius. Why are we even taking her serious. Just because a few misguided people in our country are rooting for her. Just because a minority of the people in the US thinks she is good does not mean that she is all that. We have to get to a reality check in the US on what is good and what is plain stupid. And Sarah Palin (quitting when it gets tough and uncomfortable) is not what the US needs. She will quit again when it gets tough!
Posted by: zd | September 29, 2009 at 08:14 AM
I am great supporter of Sarah Palin. She is what America needs. If she is elected President she can once and for all destroy this rouge cowboy called the United States of America on the world stage. The world will be netter off with an America that looks inward at itself and leave the rest of the world to sort out the mess that America has caused.
Go Sarah Go!!! all the way to the Whitehouse.
Posted by: Andew Schmidt | September 29, 2009 at 11:23 AM
Andrew,
Yes I can't agree with you more: She will destroy the United States of America should she be elected president of the USA at any time!
Where I don't agree with you is the the US needs her. She is the last thing that the US needs.
Posted by: zd | September 29, 2009 at 01:57 PM
Sarah is a like a Starfish. The liberals tried to slice her in half and she just came back twice as strong! LOL She "doubles" them over!
Go Sarah! Get Out of Hell in 2012~! Go Palin!
Posted by: Claire | September 29, 2009 at 05:34 PM
The louder they shriek, the STRONGER Sarah becomes.
Louder! Louder damn spots. Assure her election, her strength, her complete victory over the forces of marxist Progressives who can no longer hide from the Constitution and it's power.
Like the voices in the Roman Senate, braying before the fall of the fascist Republic... Louder! LOUDER!
Posted by: GlennO | September 29, 2009 at 07:31 PM
Get used to it.
She's the next President and will bump that Imperial bumpkin out of the People's House, off the pumpkin wagon and back into a farmer's field in Illinois come 2012.
56% of Americans think Obama is a total fraud as evidenced by their complete rejection of his Healthcare power grab.
It's over, go home, soak your heads and get ready for 8 years of Sarah Palin, POTUS.
Posted by: GlennO | September 29, 2009 at 07:54 PM