by Mark Silva and updated
It is billed by early readers as a blend of redemption and revenge, with a certain measure of pay-back for those campaign strategists who insisted that Sarah Palin stick with the script in John McCain's campaign for president, accusing her, with a complaint that became the inspiration for her memoir's title, of Going Rogue.
Yet, days before the official release of Palin's book on Tuesday, the 2008 Republican nominee for vice president already is getting some push-back for the pay-back she is dishing out, with a book tour starting in Grand Rapids this week that is sure to look like push-back to the push-back for the pay-back.
And, for Palin, it will amount to one great pay-off.
Welcome to the Bulldog edition of The Swamp, the one that comes out the day before it says it's coming out. We've always had a certain love for the Bulldog - there is something urgent about a paper that arrives the day before it arrives, something that focuses the mind on deadline. In the interest of delivering an early look at the book that everyone's already looking at, and which a few readers have read and reported on, and in hopes of taking the better part of Sunday off, Sunday's Swamp is here already:
And in true Bulldog followup tradition we have an update this morning: Palin says the media are still "making things up.'' At her Facebook headquarters today, Palin writes: "They're now erroneously reporting on the book's contents and are repeating many of the same things they spewed during the campaign and afterwards.''
Taking note of all the news people said to be "fact-checking'' her book, she scoffs at "dedicating time and resources to tearing up the book, instead of using the time and resources to 'fact check' what's going on with (9/11 plotter Khalid) Sheikh Mohammed's trial, (House Speaker Nancy) Pelosi's health care takeover costs, (Fort Hood suspect Nidal Malik) Hasan's associations, etc. Amazing.... We'll keep setting the record straight, and we'll keep reminding some in the media that Americans are very tired of their non-objective reporting.''
The former governor of Alaska, who abrubtly resigned last summer in the midst of persistent complaints about her ethics, gets personal in the 413-page book that will make its real media debut on The Oprah Winfrey Show on Monday. She delves into the pain of teenage daughter Bristol's pregnancy which the world learned of with the Republican Party's nomination of a vice presidential candidate little known beyond Wasilla before that. But she steers clear in this book of her grandbaby Tripp's father, the estranged Levi Johnston, who has aired the Palin family's dirty laundry on television and shed his own underwear for Playgirl.
Her own high-priced, party-leased wardrobe, which had become a lightning rod for the Republican during the few months in which she campaigned with McCain, had been one of the points of contention between Palin and the campaign's strategists, she writes. Even her diet was a problem for strategists pushing Atkins Diet bars on her -- no Mooseburgers on the road ("We eat, therefore we hunt.")
If she spares the rod for Johnston, Palin lets loose on McCain's men. She writes bitterly of being barred from delivering her own concession speech on election night, how she'd been kept "bottled up" during the campaign and kept from being herself. She says she was prepped to give non-answers to Joe Biden in debate
Palin drew at least a $1.25 million advance for this book, ready months ahead of schedule with the help of a professional writer, Lynn Vincent, with a first printing of 1.5 million copies from HarperCollins and top billing on the prepublication sales lists at Amazon and other deals. The conservative NewsMax has gathered some copies, peddling them at deep discount and giving them away for free to subscribers.
"As you probably have heard, the AP snagged a copy of my memoir, Going Rogue, before its Tuesday release," Palin wrote in her Facebook Notes. "And as is expected, the AP and a number of subsequent media outlets are erroneously reporting the contents of the book,'' she wrote. "Keep your powder dry, read the book, and enjoy it! Lots of great stories about my family, Alaska, and the incredible honor it was to run alongside Senator John McCain."
All of which seems supremely fashioned to spur sales even more, with the AP's director of media relations maintaining that it has made a fair and careful pre-release account of the book. That following on Facebook is now near one million, close to double what it was when she resigned midway through her first term.
And Palin is engaging full-bore in current events, calling the Obama Justice Department's decision to try the mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks in criminal court in New York "atrocious.''
"Horrible decision, absolutely horrible,'' Palin writes on Facebook near the eve of her book tour. "It is devastating for so many of us to hear that the Obama Administration decided that the 9/11 terrorist mastermind, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, will be given a criminal trial in New York. This is an atrocious decision..... The trial will afford Mohammed the opportunity to grandstand and make use of his time in front of the world media to rally his disgusting terrorist cohorts. It will also be an insult to the victims of 9/11, as Mohammed will no doubt use the opportunity to spew his hateful rhetoric in the same neighborhood in which he ruthlessly cut down the lives of so many Americans....
" If we are stuck with this terrible Obama Administration decision,'' Palin writes, "I, like most Americans, hope that Mohammed and his co-conspirators are convicted. Hang 'em high.''
Palin, for her part, will be steering clear of New York on a three-week book tour starting in Grand Rapids and ranging from Bloomington, Minn., to Fort Bragg, N.C., before heading out West after Thanksgiving.
The memoir, the AP reports, starts with Palin's birth in Sandpoint, Ohio, and alludes to the unknown about her future from here. But it is the accounting of her confrontations with her own campaign's strategists and the national media that stand out.
Her encounter with CBS News' Katie Couric, which exposed more about what Palin didn't know, or read, than what she did, she recalls as condescending, biased and full of "badgering.'' She maintains that the CBS anchor went to town with the "gotcha'' moments - such as Palin's inability to name the newspapers she reads regularly - and left more substantive material on the network's editing table.
The AP isn't the only party that found an early copy of the book. So did the Huffington Post.
"Going Rogue is, at its heart, one giant complaint about the conduct of John McCain's 2008 presidential campaign,'' the HuffPost's Sam Stein and Lila Shapiro write. "At the nexus of Palin's grievances lies Schmidt, a character cast as out of touch, overly cautious, and vindictive.''
Palin claims she and the campaign's strategists were "very comfortable with each other right off the bat," and she calls Schmidt "business to the bone." During her vetting Schmidt plays it cool.
Palin complains of being "told to sit down and shut up" when she "spoke on the trail about (then Democratic presidential candidate Barack) Obama's associations with questionable characters." She complains that the campaign feared to take on Obama's former, longtime pastor of twenty years, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright.
"I will forever question the campaign for prohibiting discussion of such association," Palin writes. "All the more since these tell-tale signs of Obama's views, carefully concealed with centrist campaign-speak have now been brought into the light by his appointments and actions in office."
Her disdain for Schmidt and others of the "professional political caste''' jumps off the pages.
The HuffPost has served up an excerpt about the animosity growing peronsal when Schmidt wanted to put Palin on the Atkins Diet.
"I had to do a mental double take.
"The Atkins bars -- that must be it. They were everywhere, in every hotel room and on every snack table along the trail. They were great, when I didn't have time to slow down and eat, but I didn't know why they were all over the place.
"I'm not on the Atkins Diet, Steve."
"Don't you know what a high-protein diet does?" he asked, ignoring what I had just said.
He then launched into a discussion of nutrition physiology, holding forth on the importance of carbohydrates to cognitive connections and blah-blah-blah. As he lectured, I took in his rotund physique and noted that he used nicotine to keep his own cognitive connections humming along.
"I interrupted his lecture. "Steve, you know what I really need? Half an hour to go for a run in these beautiful cities we're visiting. Also, seeing my kids does wonders for my soul."
"He barreled on as if I hadn't spoken. "Headquarters is flying in a nutritionist, and for three days you're going to be on a diet balanced in carbohydrates and nitrates and --"
I'm a forty-four year old, healthy, athletic woman raising five kids and governing a large state, I thought as his words faded into a background buzz. Sir, I really don't know you yet. But you've told me how to dress, what to say, who to talk to, a lot of people not to talk to, who my heroes are supposed to be and we're still losing. Now you're going to tell me what to eat?''
Palin laments over her indecisiveness in dealing with Saturday Night Live's parodies of her, Stein and colleague write, insisting that she should have gone on the show earlier to counterbalance the searing portrayals of her by comic Tina Fey.
"Just stick with the script," Schmidt would say. "Ultimately," Palin writes, "this hurt the campaign to a degree the 'experts' could never grasp."
" Now I was in the hands of 'campaign professionals' Palin writes, " and it was my first encounter with the unique way of thinking that characterizes this elite and highly specialized guild. In Alaska, we don't really have these kinds of people -- they are a feature of national politics. Naturally enough, as the experts, they are used to being in charge. But no matter how "expert" any of them was, nothing had apparently prepared them for the unprecedented onslaught of rumors, lies, and innuendo that "packaging" would have on my candidacy. ''
The decision to purchase designer clothes for Palin is ascribed to communications adviser Nicolle Wallace.
"I had a humbling experience while we were back in Wasilla for the Charlie Gibson interview in September," Palin writes. "While the crews turned my kitchen into a television studio, I took Nicolle into my bedroom and showed her what I thought I should pack for the trail. She flipped through my wardrobe with a raised eyebrow."
Palin recoils at the memory of the prank call of the media from Canada posing as French President Nicolas Sarkozy, and suggests the campaign pros who thought they were such pros should never have let her get on the phone with the caller.
"By that time I'd received calls from presidents of other countries and our own, and had met elder statesmen and other dignitaries, so it didn't surprise us too much that we'd be speaking with the French leader,'' Palin writes.
"He's got to be drunk, I thought.
"I didn't want to offend the president of France, but this was getting stupid. I kept thinking, surely, someone will pop up and say something like, "Okay, the five minutes are up," but the call just went on and on and on. By now, I was thinking exit strategy. And I kept trying to laugh, even though it was increasingly unfunny.
"Right away, the phones started ringing. One of the first calls was Schmidt, and the force of his screaming blew my hair back. "How can anyone be so stupid?! Why would the president of France call a vice presidential candidate a few days out?!"
"Good question, I thought,'' Palin writes. "Weren't you the ones who set this up?"
"Somehow,'' the author of Going Rogue writes, "the Palins were responsible for all of the campaign's problems."
Comments
Ahhh, the hits from the Obune just keep coming. First, Pretend Journalist Clarence Page uses Huffington Post and Media Matters crap and now Axelrod's very own Mark Silva dishes the sludge out, with help from the aforementioned lefty swine flu sight known as the Huffington Post.
FACT: Mark, Palin did not resign because of ethics problems. In fact, it seems she has largely been cleared of all those fake ethics charges against her.
Mark also seems depressed that Palin doesn't go after 19-year-old brat Levi Johnston. That would be a smart thing, Mark. He is a kid, a kid who is being dumb at the moment becuase he has been sucked into the BS media trappings.
Then, Mark seems to be putting down the "badgering" she claims Katie CooCoo gave her. Funny, Mark, didn't you just WHINE a few days ago about the "badgering" Glenn Beck has dished out against the Obama adiminstration.
More unadulterated crap from the joke that is the Chicago Tribune.
I know. This will be censored because freedom of speech, the First Amendment and criticism (which includes dishing right back at the Swamp what it tries to dish out) are three things the Tribune and its propagandists cannot handle.
Posted by: John D, still right, as usual | November 14, 2009 9:35 PM
When will the major media in this country admit that they conspired to do an unprecedented hit job on Palin and her family because of the media's partisanship for Obama? The fact that Palin emerges as the winner reveals the depth to which the former mainstream-turned-leftwing media have fallen, not only in circulation and viewership but especially in public esteem.
Posted by: Derrick | November 14, 2009 9:44 PM
Imagine that a different perspective than McCain or the Press. What a bunch of hypocrites. No one in the media or politics would ever shade a story. I guess it all depends on the definition of what is is. I'm a Democrat who believes in guns,pro life, no governtment health care, a balanced budgets and fuel from home. I believe this because I grew up with guns and no harm came to me or my family. I beleive in guns because in the Corps they protected my country, I am pro life because my "retarded cousin showed me more courage than most "high functioning people have". Try the military health care system, Great doctors not enough money and too many patients. WE should use our own fuel and develop solar and
green fuel also. I believe in a balanced budget because I lived through the 1982 recession, caused by the Great Society which Wilbur Mills fought. It made this one look like a day inthe park with it's 21% interest rates. Yeah we can't have a strong willed woman tell us to grow up and be self sufficient. Palin must have sour grapes. B.S.
Lets give away a few more Governors mansions before we realize most Americans are fairly conservative at home.
Posted by: Brian F. Jordan | November 15, 2009 1:22 AM
Yawn. Another book that blames other people for failure. Am I to understand that this "maverick" failed because she did what she was told? Why didn't she maverick her way through these issues? Sounds more like a follower who complains than a maverick leader.
Posted by: Dave | November 15, 2009 8:12 AM
Yawn. Another book that blames other people for failure. Am I to understand that this "maverick" failed because she did what she was told? Why didn't she maverick her way through these issues? Sounds more like a follower who complains than a maverick leader.
Posted by: Dave | November 15, 2009 8:14 AM
Early editing note: "into he pain" should be "into the pain."
"I, like most Americans, hope that Mohammed and his co-conspirators are convicted. Hang 'em high.''
- S. Palin
Yeah, Sarah, that's the idea. "Hang 'em high" instead of keeping them locked away for the rest of their lives without a trial.
We're still the United States of America. We still believe in due process. And, yes, that means that bad guys will still be able to "grandstand," but that's the price we might have to pay to get to the truth and to render JUSTICE.
If that's a "horrible" way to run a government, you should let us know how and why the Founding Fathers got it wrong. Indeed, that could be the focus of your next book and that can really catapult you to the presidency.
Or not.
Posted by: Tell the Truth | November 15, 2009 8:27 AM
"media hit job"??
"media bias"??
Just watch the video of interviews and her "debate"! The woman is ignorant of history, current affairs, geography, ..." Her "undoing" was because she's totally ignorant.
Posted by: Reality | November 15, 2009 9:36 AM
So what's the big deal? Every winner of American Idol or Dancing With the Stars gets a book deal. They do it to cash in on their fame and maybe get their own talk show, or their own clothing line, or up their chances to be Grand Marshal of a parade, somewhere. Let the woman make her money.
Posted by: Another Celebrity Book | November 15, 2009 10:16 AM
Oh my god, she argues like a horrible teenager. Yes, why fact-check her book--she should be allowed to say whatever she wants because there are more important things going on? I am going to put her in the little room in my brain where I keep useless people like the Gosselins and Carrie Prejean and the Lohans all locked up. They are all the same: useless, delusional and so desperate for attention.
Posted by: CW | November 15, 2009 10:19 AM
Please stick a cork in her. She was bad enough when kept quiet and in the present condition of our country there are many who rally behind the wrong person. Light the torches and the villagers will storm everything that is good about our beloved country.
Posted by: Maddie | November 15, 2009 10:32 AM
Waaaa. Oh, too bad, so sad for Sarah Palin. Life is so unfair. She has a comfortable lifestyle, an income, a family, enough food each day, and a home of her own. Waaaa. I can indeed see why she's whining.
Posted by: Eilene | November 15, 2009 11:13 AM
This will be censored because freedom of speech, the First Amendment and criticism (which includes dishing right back at the Swamp what it tries to dish out) are three things the Tribune and its propagandists cannot handle.
Posted by: John D, still right, as usual | November 14, 2009 9:35 PM
So, what are you going to do, now that you've been proven wrong. Maybe change your nom de plume to John D, hit and miss, as usual, John D, the luck of the draw, as usual, John D, flying by the seat of my pants, as usual, or John D, maverick, Axelrod made me do it?
Posted by: Axelrod | November 15, 2009 11:41 AM
Right - Sarah Palin is the person to make real change in this country - Please Cut It out !!
She's another figurehead bobbing head doll puppet that the behind the scenes people stealing all the wealth in this country want put in as our leadershipless leader.
It's high time the people realize the beauty of this country is that you're supposed to be your own leader and you should be telling the government and the blood sucking corporate inwestors to get the %$%$%$%$ out of your way.
Tell them get real - I want my overtime ! and I'm not paying the freaking interest, taxes and fees to the point of economic impotency - ANY FREAKING MORE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
For a good start throw slacker Todd Stroger and his cling on barnacles out of office. Stamp out the waste of your tax dollars so you can keep your money for your loved ones.
Now go get your money
and KEEP IT.
class dismissed
Posted by: Fish | November 15, 2009 12:12 PM
LOL, Lipstick on a pig. Go Sarah. Every word out of your mouth or in print does more damage to the Repukes. Keep talking Sarah. Lipstick on a pig.
Posted by: hailet | November 15, 2009 12:27 PM
John D / masochist. Reads the Swamp daily and shows up to toss spitballs. Who writes a memoir at 44? Someone with a massive ego, capitalizing on her 15 minutes of fame and pandering to a following who hitched their star to the wrong team.
Posted by: OWL | November 15, 2009 12:37 PM
Personal responsibility,Personal responsibilityPersonal responsibilityPersonal responsibilityPersonal responsibility.
Blame Others,Blame Others,Blame Others,Blame Others,Blame Others,Blame Others,Blame Others
Posted by: RepubsAre | November 15, 2009 12:49 PM
What's next for the Rogue? An appearance in Playboy?? Can't wait for that one . . .
Posted by: The Capitalist | November 15, 2009 12:53 PM
@Derrick - I agree with you that the media was pro-Obama but Sarah Palin was her worst enemy because in interviews she demonstrated
painfully how much she was out of her depth.
Posted by: Jamaicafest | November 15, 2009 1:02 PM
Sarah Palin is a American patriot who would have the backbone to refrain from bowing before the Japanese Emperor. She's twice the man Obama will ever be and she's a woman.
Despite the mainstream media image, she's acknowledged expert on energy policy and international trade, but thanks to the liberal efforts to paint her as clueless, you'd never.
I'd much rather have her as President than the teleprompter reader in chief -- unlike Obama, Ms. Palin didn't rely on affirmative action to achieve what she has in life.
Posted by: Tom | November 15, 2009 1:23 PM
It's funny how she criticizes the media, yet craves their attention. It sounds like the book is just more of her incessant whining about how everyone else was so mean to her. Her extreme paranoia is outweighed only by her incredible lack of anything resembling intelligence.
Posted by: Wendy C | November 15, 2009 1:43 PM
How is this woman still pissed about them not letting her give a concession speech?
After classic VP concession speeches like Ferraro, Kemp, Mondale, Lodge, Warren...what? They didn't give concession speeches?
Posted by: Dan | November 15, 2009 1:45 PM
Money talks and Sarah follows the siren's song. I wonder where her pal Greta is in all of this.
I do feel sorry for her though as she does not realize how dumb she sounds and that she is being used.She kind of reminds me of Kenneth on 30 Rock. I hope she never hears them laughing behind her back all the way to the bank.
Posted by: lochnessmonster | November 15, 2009 1:52 PM
You know the expression, "you are what you eat?"
Consider Sarah Palin and her moose chili.
Prefers cooler and less populated habitats. Herds declining elsewhere. Sheds horns seasonably. Defends her young one as best she can. Will feel threatened by and, because of lack of intelligence and poor eyesight, will attack whatever moves. Likely to cause damage to whatever hits her. Doesn't know enough to get out of the way.
Posted by: Kenny Bunkport | November 15, 2009 1:52 PM
Gov. Palin,
I wish you the best on your book tour. So far you have manage to quit your job because you were tired of getting sued, the McCain campaign kept you bottled up so you could not express your true self and you are doing your best leadership hiding behind facebook comments. My poor President for all your criticism leveled at him still manages to say something nice about you and your family whenever asked. Believe I think he has plenty just cause not too, but not all people are cut from the same cloth.
Posted by: LizF | November 15, 2009 2:29 PM
"The former governor of Alaska, who abrubtly resigned last summer in the midst of persistent complaints about her ethics,"
Fact: "in the midst" does not mean resulting from, or because of. It means during, or in the middle.
These were happening at the same time, hence, in the midst.
Posted by: John D, wrong as usual | November 15, 2009 2:44 PM
The Associated Press (not a radical source) provides the following fact check on some of Palin's claims (and note that this is just the abridged version):
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_PALIN_BOOK_FACT_CHECK_ABRIDGED?SITE=VASTR&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
Posted by: Kenny Bunkport | November 15, 2009 2:45 PM
Oh, poor Sarah! People are actually fact-checking her facts!
As Stephen Colbert says, reality has a well-known liberal bias.
Posted by: bea | November 15, 2009 2:46 PM
McCain campaign already leaking emails that contradict Sarah's book. Probably more to come, especially about her first grandchild Trigg.
Posted by: emjay | November 15, 2009 2:54 PM
Sarah Palin is a American patriot who would have the backbone to refrain from bowing before the Japanese Emperor.
Posted by: Tom | November 15, 2009 1:23 PM
Just not enough backbone to finish the job she was elected for. Great point!
Posted by: bill r. | November 15, 2009 3:22 PM
Palin denies,blames, and excuses. The X-part of a term gov is really a boring clown.
Posted by: lewis finch | November 15, 2009 3:58 PM
So, is her special needs child being dragged around on this tour or is he just to be abandoned at home without a mother? Is the next in line now out getting knocked up without any parental supervision? Is this representative of so-called Republican "family values"?
Posted by: DD | November 15, 2009 5:26 PM
An Overview of an Overview of Palin’s Book–Part II
You can always tell a Leftist. You can’t tell them much but you can always tell them.
Ok, that’s an old line but a line as true with regard to the Left as the day it was first uttered.
Sarah Palin’s book, Going Rogue: An American Life, due for public release on November 17th was probably targeted by the Forces of Darkness, the Left/liberals/mainstream media/Democratic Party, as soon as HarperCollins announced its publication.
Ever on the alert to discover conservative flaws and errors, the Associated Press assigned no less than eleven attack dogs to fact check the book and came up with little ammunition–6 alleged inaccuracies in the memoir’s 413 pages. Fact-checking the AP fact checkers, the revelations are exposed as mostly reporter opinions and misrepresentations.
For the outing of the outers, see http://bit.ly/21NPol.
As Moonbattery.com illustrates, Sarah Palin is right on target:
Part One of Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg’s overview of the book’s six chapters was previously overviewed here. (http://bit.ly/wdUqw) What follows are other tidbits gleaned from Trachtenberg’s commentary:
The Saturday Night Live Appearance: Palin bodaciously admits that as a teen, she snuck around under her parents’ radar to catch ”SNL” and jumped at the opportunity to appear on the show where Tina Fey had been surreally impersonating her. She was to experience “a nice mom moment” with Fey and Fey’s daughter. To her credit, she snubbed another guest on the show that night, director and re-interpreter of history, Oliver Stone, because of his hero-worship for Hugo Chavez. Why she didn’t also snub another guest, Alec Baldwin, is a mystery but I guess she figured she had to talk to someone on the SNL set.
Palin’s Wardrobe: . . .
(Read the rest at http://genelalor.com)
Posted by: Berlet98 | November 15, 2009 5:43 PM
She has a very small (and a right to have) band of followers with no real power. Thank goodness most of America treats her as a rather dumb celebrity. The more she talks, the more she exposes herself as just that. No worry at all about her being any kind of political leader in the future, because she could not get elected anywhere, anyway.
Posted by: Chico | November 15, 2009 6:11 PM
And it all makes sense now. The red states are the ones with the largest percentages of the population with less than 9th grade educations.
Posted by: P. Hertz | November 15, 2009 6:14 PM
Derrick: A media conspiracy? Don't you read newspapers. The media is not smart enough to coordinate a conspiracy nor would they share any such ideas with each other is this age of instant online scoops. simpoly: The media can't get itself together to save itself, much less trash anyone else.
Posted by: Mikey | November 15, 2009 7:01 PM
(Read the rest at http://genelalor.com)
Posted by: Berlet98 | November 15, 2009 5:43 PM
Still advertising for readers.....????
Posted by: bill r. | November 15, 2009 7:22 PM
Palin obviously thinks being a rogue is a good thing. Does she know synonyms for "rogue" are "villain," " trickster," "swindler," "cheat," "mountebank," and "quack?" Maybe she does, because all of those seem to fit her pretty well.
Posted by: Richard Friedman | November 15, 2009 7:54 PM
Palin. Yawn. Who cares.
Posted by: longtimetribreader | November 15, 2009 8:05 PM
"John D / masochist. Reads the Swamp daily and shows up to toss spitballs. Who writes a memoir at 44? Someone with a massive ego, capitalizing on her 15 minutes of fame and pandering to a following who hitched their star to the wrong team.
Posted by: OWL | November 15, 2009 12:37 PM"
A governor and VP candidate writing one at 44 vs. a part-time state senator and community organizer writing 2 before age 45.
Compare and discuss.
Posted by: George | November 15, 2009 8:51 PM
Sarah's comments about the 9/11 NY trial shows off her vast ignorance.
Again.
The defendants are unlikely to testify and are unlikely t to have access to the press.
It's not like they will be out on bail, Sarah, so that they can address the press.
But you would already know that if you kept up with the news and read a few enlightening books.
Posted by: Marnie | November 15, 2009 9:08 PM
Sarah " the quitter" Palin should be an embarrasment to
any sensible person left in the GOP. She is the rockstar republicon completely unqualified and yet, there she is, in your face. Soon I expect her to be on Dancing With Stars, maybe Levi can be her dance partner.
Posted by: writerofwrongs | November 15, 2009 9:18 PM
John, if you are sick of the Trib, stop reading it and spare us your stupid right wingnut diatribes. Theyw rote an article and quoted her. What did you expect them to do- bow down and declare her mistress of the world? You are kookier than she is!
Posted by: Disgusted | November 15, 2009 10:20 PM
Sarah Palin has been tarred and feathered so many times; it's obvious that this lady has created more public interest than Mr. Obama.
Me thinks little Sarah has them shaking in their shoes!
Annie
Posted by: Marcia Wood | November 15, 2009 10:47 PM
Whenever I read or watch the left attacking Sarah Palin and her family it always reminds me of a pack of wild Jackals. Never is the criticism about policy, it's always personal. She really drives you leftists over the edge. That makes her #1 in my book.
Your hero Al Gore is making Millions off of his Dopey Green Warming scheme. He'll be a billionaire, while he burns all the fossil fuel he wants and lectures on its evils, eats cows and tells you that cows create methane and will kill the planet, etc. Save a polar bear for me, will ya Al baby?
Bill and Hillary both wrote books, that didn't say a darn thing, but made them millions...and then there was Whitewater and troopergate and of course Monica.
And then there is the current hypocrite: Obowdown. Who promised not to take private donations in his run for president but threw that idea under the bus along with his granny, the Rev Wright, and all his radical buddies that he never knew, but now has jobs for in the United States government.
Leftists you just don't have moral molehill to stand on, let alone the high ground.
Posted by: Free to Watch Whatever I Want | November 15, 2009 11:14 PM
Let her blow !! Thanks, " Crash " McCain for foisting this stooge upon our political stage !! Only the Republican-Liberatarians can throw up, dummy after dummy, and think, everything is alright !! What, " America First " ?? You betcha !!
SUPPORT OUR TROOPS, BRING THEM HOME, ALIVE AND WHOLE. NOW.
Posted by: Don Fitzgerald, IL | November 15, 2009 11:20 PM
It seems that the McCain campaign staff see it as a work of fiction.
A legend in her own mind.
Maybe she can get a reality show.
Posted by: Kenny Bunkport | November 16, 2009 7:12 AM
Not one of these Republiscums ever heard of 'Palin' before August 2008 when McCain selected her as his running mate. Now she has become their vision and hero. She is a fraud, a liar, and a hypocrite. This speaks volumes for her blind followers.
Posted by: Doug R. | November 16, 2009 8:15 AM
They just can't wash the trailer park off of Sarah Palin. She's pure white trash. I hope she runs for president. America deserves a president this stupid.
Posted by: commonbond | November 16, 2009 8:16 AM
Why would anyone read this book?
What kind of people read these kinds of books?
Posted by: Critic | November 16, 2009 9:28 AM
Palins antics are so sophomoric - and pointedly republican. Deny the facts, reject responsibility, choose to be willfully ignorant, place the blame everywhere but where it belongs and consistently respond incoherently.
And the majority of republicans actually think this nitwit is capable of leading this country? It certainly doesn't speak well for the intellect of the party.
Palins schtick is tiresome, she's nothing but a trainwreck.
Posted by: Jilli | November 16, 2009 10:54 AM
I wonder if Obama bows or genuflects
in front of Mayor Daley and the combine.
Posted by: Lou | November 16, 2009 12:02 PM
Palin's book should be sold under the category it belongs; Fiction.
And her worshipping cult of psychos will never admit what is clear to the rest of the universe: the woman is unfit to run the Wasilla PTA, let alone the Greatest Nation in the History of the World.
Posted by: Mandomaniac | November 16, 2009 12:15 PM
Palin obviously thinks being a rogue is a good thing. Does she know synonyms for "rogue" are "villain," " trickster," "swindler," "cheat," "mountebank," and "quack?" Maybe she does, because all of those seem to fit her pretty well.
Posted by: Richard Friedman | November 16, 2009 7:31 PM
Sarah Agonistes?
Sarah Unchained!
Bring. Her. On.
Yes, bring her onto the floor of the Coliseum.
Sarah, if one of those lions gets too familiar, remember you can reach the brain through the roof of its mouth. Keep those nails sharp, Sarah!
Posted by: ornery | November 16, 2009 9:14 PM
To Bill R:
Yup, you have a problem with that? If so, why?
Posted by: Berlet98 | November 17, 2009 12:48 AM