Karl Rove talks about Sarah Palin -- and Top of the Ticket
The other night Karl Rove was talking with Greta Van Susteren about the Sarah Palin phenomenon and her record-breaking book sales of "Going Rogue." He says he's started the book, finds it a very good read, is impressed by her crowds (4,000 at Ft. Bragg) and its sales nearly exceeding an ex-president's book, Bill Clinton's, written post-presidency.
The political strategist, with his own book coming out in March, "Courage and Consequence," says Palin has got to learn to pivot off of the misbehaving son-in-law and other soap opera questions because the media want to keep her on the cover of People magazine, not talking about serious issues.
But, Rove notes, there's a big difference between running to sell a book and running to win the White House.
Greta seemed done with her interview when Rove wanted to say something else.
That's another part that caught our ear since, to speak candidly, he wanted to talk about a recent Top of the Ticket item, which you can read right here after watching the video.
The Fox News Channel video is here below, courtesy of, not too surprisingly, the Fox News Channel.
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Either Karl Rove lives in Never land or he can not do math. Former president Bill Clinton's book "My life" sold 900,000 copies in the first week and Sarah's Palin's book sold 700,000 in the same period: how can Rove say that the sales of her book nearly exceeds Bill Clinton's? Palin does not even come close to Bill's numbers!
Posted by: alinosof | November 27, 2009 at 09:17 AM
Its pretty close,isn't it?
Posted by: YD | November 27, 2009 at 07:21 PM
I cannot believe all the ridiculous hype over Sarah Palin, who bailed on Alaska even though she was elected to govern that state! She is now, well, nothing more than an author out hawking her book to anyone that will buy it. Seems the L.A. Times is also caught up in this charade. And even if she eventually tried to run for another office, who's to say she won't bail on that as well?
She should not have run for Gov. if she was not up to the task. I have even heard some pundits on TV & the radio, say they can't understand why she is getting so much attention! Well, CNN, MSNBC,F(au)X news channels continually report on her every move - who cares? She lost, then bailed on her own state - spare us the coverage of this flake!
Posted by: Dallas | November 30, 2009 at 09:11 PM
Hey Dallas.... why are you so afraid of Palin??? Relax Big D, and trying to setting down that piece of paper you are holding with all those talking points.... :)
"I cannot believe all the ridiculous hype over Sarah Palin, who bailed on Alaska even though she was elected to govern that state! She is now, well, nothing more than an author out hawking her book to anyone that will buy it. Seems the L.A. Times is also caught up in this charade. And even if she eventually tried to run for another office, who's to say she won't bail on that as well?
She should not have run for Gov. if she was not up to the task. I have even heard some pundits on TV & the radio, say they can't understand why she is getting so much attention! Well, CNN, MSNBC,F(au)X news channels continually report on her every move - who cares? She lost, then bailed on her own state - spare us the coverage of this flake!"
Posted by: Dallas | November 30, 2009 at 09:11 PM
Posted by: PabloHyde | December 04, 2009 at 08:24 AM