As goes Sarah Palin, so goes Mitt Romney

The Republican’s new book carries a critique of the president voiced by others: That Obama has been too willing to apologize around the world for American actions. It lays out a vision for U.S. economic and foreign policy, maintaining that the current course is leading toward weakness and decline. Romney’s 19-state book-promoting tour is carrying him from one cable news network to the others ...and ends with an appearance at the ‘Late Show with David Letterman’ -- where Romney will be up against another author whose designs for 2012 remain less clear than Romney’s own intentions, Sarah Palin, the 2008 Republican nominee for vice president, who has a date with Jay Leno on ‘The Tonight Show.’

“I think Sarah Palin, they printed 2 million books. We’re printing like 100,000 books,’ said Romney. (An aide later corrected him: the publisher, St. Martin’s Press, has already committed to print twice that number.) “Frankly, if I were wanting to simply sell copies of books and get the highest number sold, describing a personal history would be a more interesting read for most folks,’ he continued. “But for those that are very interested in geopolitics and the way our economy works, this is going to be a more interesting book.’