Sarah Palin’s memoir is reportedly complete and will be released on November 17, a few months ahead of its planned spring publication. Palin completed her memoir in just four months with the help of a ghostwriter. The book, curiously titled Going Rogue: An American Life
Sarah Palin, the former Alaska governor and Republican vice presidential candidate, has finished her memoir just four months after the book deal was announced, and the release date has been moved up from the spring to Nov. 17, her publisher said.
“Governor Palin has been unbelievably conscientious and hands-on at every stage, investing herself deeply and passionately in this project,” said Jonathan Burnham, publisher of Harper. “It’s her words, her life, and it’s all there in full and fascinating detail.”
Palin’s book, her first, will be 400 pages, said Burnham, who called the fall “the best possible time for a major book of this kind.”
The book now has a title, one fitting for a public figure known for the unexpected – “Going Rogue: An American Life.”
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins, has commissioned a huge first printing of 1.5 million copies. Sen. Ted Kennedy’s “True Compass,” published by Twelve soon after his Aug. 25 death, also had a 1.5 million first printing.
As with the Kennedy book, the digital edition of Palin’s memoir will not be released at the same time as the hardcover. “Going Rogue” will not be available as an e-book until Dec. 26 because “we want to maximize hardcover sales over the holidays,” Harper spokeswoman Tina Andreadis said Monday.
Publishers have been concerned that e-books, rapidly becoming more popular, might take away sales from hardcover editions, which are more expensive.
Palin, who abruptly resigned as Alaska governor over the summer with more than a year left in her first term, has been an object of fascination since Sen. John McCain, the Republican presidential candidate in 2008, chose her as his running mate, making an instant celebrity out of a once-obscure public official.
During last year’s campaign, pundits questioned whether Palin hurt McCain’s presidential bid by “going rogue,” or defying his campaign’s control.
Although Democrat Barack Obama easily won the election and Palin was criticized even by some Republicans for being inexperienced, she remains a favorite among conservatives and is a rumored contender for 2012. Interest in her is so high that a fan recently paid $63,500 to have dinner with her, part of an Internet auction for a charity that aids wounded veterans.
Palin, 45, spent weeks in San Diego shortly after leaving office and worked on the manuscript with collaborator Lynn Vincent, a person close to her said. She was joined in San Diego by her family and her top aide, Meghan Stapleton, then spent several days in New York working around the clock with editors at Harper, said the person, who wasn’t authorized to comment and asked not to be identified.
[From Huffington Post]
So if Palin rushed to San Diego to start working on her book right after she resigned, I guess we know why she didn’t serve out the rest of her term as governor. Is that what Going Rogue means, shirking your responsibilities and stepping away from your commitments when they’re no longer convenient? I don’t know how this woman is still considered a contender for the 2012 election when she’s known for dropping out, taking advantage, and giving weak confusing excuses at every turn. Surely Republicans can do way better.
Palin, 45, reportedly received an over $10 million advance for her book, and it’s likely she’ll make more if it sells well. Maybe all that cash will convince her that there’s no need to return to politics, with its pesky ethics complaints and difficult questions.
And I am to believe any honesty from this book, marketing hype, or inflated sales figures?
There has been little interest in Palin. She’s as entertaining as the rest of the crazie’s who scream, like Stuart, “look what I can do.”
Ah well we know what’s going to be on every white supremacists, skinheads, and the religious right nutjobs, Christmas lists this year.
I am going to buy some popcorn in bulk, this is going to be pure entertainment, come book tour time. Of course, she will only go on Beck, Hannity, O’Reilly, and Limbaugh shows to promote it. However, I am looking forward to even one of these guys tripping her up and asking about something in her book, and she’ll have that deer in the headlights look, like she can’t remember exactly what her ghostwriter put in there.
I respectfully disagree, Diane. There is HUGE interest in Palin…
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0909/27344.html
With nearly a million supporters on Facebook as of this morning, I’d say she’s getting her message out there.
Put a white streak in your hair and then maybe I’ll consider thinking about reading your book.
gone rogue! dude, she’s SO hardcore!
seriously, if this is the GOP’s best bet for 2012, they’re in serious trouble.
Uhm, maybe she meant for the title to be “Go in Rouge”…
I got nuthin’
🙂
BITCH PLEASE!
It’s so upsetting how many people just blindly support this failure of a woman.
This self-serving, small minded, self righteous hypocrite would rather go out and grab up as much money as she can than stay committed to her obligations as a public servant – HOW do her supporters see that as..supportable?
Geez – who’s going to read it to her?!
Of course, Huffington and Celebitchy providing one and all with a grand display of their own brand of ignorance by assuming that Palin wrote her book in 4 months…Pardon my ignorance as I presume to “know” how long it actually took by saying she probably had started writing long before the last election. I’d find it more entertaining to watch those who are constantly criticizing her intelligence to represent their opinions, have their precious families and relationships mocked in public and write a book. I’d be curious to see what kind of substance they’d have to offer in 400 pages. Armchair quarterbacks are the biggest idiots I know…
My God, how many trees were destroyed to print this bullshit?
Good luck with supporting (and trying to comprehend) this ridiculous airhead.
If I were a Democrat, I’d secretly like this fruitcake as she is to the Republican party what Ralph Nader was/is to the Democrat party -a siphon.
You just know she was trying to spell *rouge*.
Ahhh Celebitchy, I think all the money in the world wouldn’t be a substitute for Palin’s ego ride. She’s in this thing for the long haul, with the money a nice little side benefit. She’ll get her strokes, and we’ll have endless opportunities for shocked disbelief at the possible depths of stupidity.
I agree with everyone Palin is a joke who would vote for her not me and I agree with everything everyone saids she should go home and stay home leave us alone
While I will agree that she has accomplished quite a few things in her life, she is far too young to be ‘writing’ a memoir.
Sorry, but it just bugs me when young people write memoirs, those are to be written during the sunset years of ones life. What is she, like 40 years old? When she is 70+ years old she can ‘write’ a memoir.
At her age she should scrap the memoir idea and shoot for a pamphlet instead.
Popcorny: I am a Democrat and yes we are super-pleased with this woman being a posterchild to Republican’s solution to “changing things up” in the party. But straight out fear overrides the hilarity. How can so many people really think she’s got something?? She never made a lick of sense in any speech I heard her make. Scary.
Oh and FYI to loved ones-I get this in my stocking for xmas and it WILL double as a weapon…aside from very uncomfortable toiletpaper.
Hopefully someday when an evil mainstream media reporter asks her a hard “gotcha” question like, “What do you read?”, Palin will now have an answer. If she memorizes that title.
Be gone Palin, be gone.
let’s see, she’s 46…gov for 2 1/2 years, veep nominee for a year…oh, don’t forget, mayor….what could possibly be in 390 pages of her 400 page memoir….aah, fishing “you betcha”….
I totally agree, this woman is a JOKE and disgrace to all successful women(and there are plenty) She is also a quitter, couldn’t even stick out her obligation for Governor , or is it true she was asked by Repulican Governors to resign? I believe she is the main reason for McCain losing the Presidency.
There were alot more qualified women.
The Democrats are hoping that the Republicans will drag this quitter clown out to run for President in the next election. We should get a few more jokes out of it, wink wink. Maybe Joe 6-Pack will buy a copy of her “memoir”.
Palin isn’t even worthy of discussion.
Sarah is someone you had better watch out for–she is smart, great mother and wife. I have known Todd for the last few years as he rides in the Iron Dog with my former boss and have seen Sarah and the baby. This woman is so much smarter than you people that sit back and make fun of her. All you are doing is keeping her in the public eye and making yourself look “stupid”. Beware of the Alaskan women, as we do know how to read, write, and handle stupid people. You will not get to her I promise. She does not pay attention to people that do not know her–remember her for she is not finished and someday you will eat your words. Sarah will have the support of WOMEN, and then you had better watch out.
uh, oh…we all better watch out for this woman who can’t even name ONE newspaper that she reads.
watch out for that woman who thinks her state’s proximity to Russia enhances her foreign relations credentials. (and no, she didn’t actually say “you can see Russia from my house”, though it’s close…)
watch out for that woman who seemingly encouraged racial slurs at her public appearances during the campaign.
watch out for that woman who quit her job as Gov with a full year left on her term.
watch out for that woman who preaches abstinence over contraception and now has a teenager who’s a mother.
oh yeah, she’s a real threat.
Vickie wrote: “Sarah will have the support of WOMEN”
Some of them yes, but certainly not all, be they Rep, Dem, or Ind.
I am not trying to disrespect her in any way, I do not doubt that she is a bright person, and a good parent, but do I think she is the best choice out of the stable of bright, educated, well rounded, Republican women for a presidential run? Absolutely not. She should continue with her speaking engagements and stumping for candidates, that is where she seems to shine.
I agree, TaylorB, good post. She may be smart and nice, and maybe she was even a good governor, or maybe not, but whatever she was, she was not well suited to VP of the US. 99.9% of women I know vote for the one they feel is best for the job, NOT based on gender. I think it’s insulting to women in general to assume that they would blindly vote for another woman regardless of the issues and policies.
Most reports I’ve seen (based on comments from the publisher) have said she’s been working on this non-stop for 4 months, which means while she was still holding the office of governor? Working for the people.
I know the whole will she or won’t she run stuff keeps her in the news, but I wish she’d just be honest about it and say she’d rather write books, give speeches, probably sooner or later have a cable news show, and enjoy capitalism rather than continuing in public service. If she wants to do that, it’s certainly her right and good for her for having such opportunities – I just wish she’d be honest about it.
If she got $10 mil for this months ago, why did she cite the legal fees burdening her and her family as part of the reason for stepping down, as if they were really being strapped by that? There was even a fund set up for people to donate to help her with the fees, and I wonder how many hard-working, non-wealthy people gave to that, and if they would have done so knowing she had a big fat check from her publisher sitting there.
I’d love for her to go on the Daily Show to promote her book, but I can’t see that happening.
@ Vickie
Child, PLEASE!
“I think it’s insulting to women in general to assume that they would blindly vote for another woman regardless of the issues and policies.”
and lucy, that is EXACTLY what the McCain campaign did when they picked her.
the logic being, “all these disappointed Hilary Clinton supporters will switch their vote to the GOP ticket because they wanted a woman candidate and theirs got defeated so they’ll just automatically vote for OUR woman candidate”.
oh, and that is not verbatim 🙂
Why is it, when someone stands up for what they believe in, they are condemed by the left? Sarah Palin is a woman that has lived her life for what she believes in, not what ya’ll think she should be. Why does being against abortion label someone as stupid? Why does raising a handicapped child label someone as stupid? Now you’re calling her a quitter. She resigned because of the frigging ridiculous ethics violations which were costing the State of Alaska a fortune. Al of these violations have been thrown out of court as being frivolous. Most of them being filed by one person. Someone from the left. The smear campaign against Sarah Palin is because the left is afraid of her. Afraid of her decency and honesty. Something the left knows nothing about. If the children of the Obamas were targeted like Palins, you of the left would be screaming like crazy. Your partisenship is so blatently obvious it’s unreal. This country is so divided by left vs right, instead of right vs. wrong, that I don’t feel we will ever recover. A country divided, will not stand. We are not the “United States” anymore.
You might hate George W. Bush, but the one thing he did was to stand for what he belived in. He was never swayed by public opinion polls of himself, like our current prez, and Sarah Palin, whether she runs for office or not, will never be swayed by popularity contests.
I’m sorry for all of you who can’t say ANTHING decent about ANYONE on the right. It really does show who and what you are. Weak. Very, very weak.
Why would WOMEN support a woman who wants to take away their autonomy over their own bodies? I (a woman) vote based on my values, not my uterus. (It’s all good; my elbow doesn’t get a say either) Nice she may well be, to people who know her. She is also a liar, though. Good mother I won’t even touch, because that’s a purely relative term.
Seriously, imagine if she was elected President, and then someone said something mean about her… she’d quit. You wouldn’t elect a President who would walk out on the job, neighbors. I have more faith in you than that.
And rogue2 – what all IS in the book if it was written before she quit or before she was nominated? She has had a career, but until the whole election debacle it wasn’t an extraordinary one. So what was she writing about “long before the last election”? Tips on having kids and hunting?
Cathy – why is it, when someone voices their different opinion, they are branded a liberal? It’s so easy to disregard someone else’s ideas when you paint them all with the same big pink brush, huh?
Cathy, sweetie. Let’s break this down:
Palin was not called stupid because of her views against abortion, or being against giving a woman the right to choose. Nor was she referred to as stupid for raising a handicapped child (really? you bring THAT up? NOT relevent at all. Stop playing the “but she’s got a handicapped child!” card. At least for the child’s sake, ok?)
If Sarah Palin is being called “stupid” as you put it, it’s more than likely being used synonomously with uninformed, inexperienced, small-minded, and/or dishonest and hypocritical. She tells the country she’s ready to be the Vice President of the United States when she had never even left the country aside from perhaps Mexico or Canada. She preaches abstinence for young adults in place of safe sex and it blows up in her own poor daughter’s face. She encourages hate at her rallys during the election by way of mischaracterizing Obama as treasonous in order to further her run for office. She appealed to this nation’s lowest common denominators without even blinking an eye while people in the crowds yelled “Kill him”, etc. about Obama.
Anyone with a brain can see that she not as much stupid as she is just plain wrong. She’s a disgrace and anyone who should so blindly put their faith into such a person as a leader is a disgrace as well. Go be honest with yourself and take a good, long, EDUCATED look at this person you seem to hold up so high.
Vivkie/Cathy whatever your name is-who on here said that anti-abortion believers are stupid? I’m a pro-life Democrat. How’s that workin for ya?? This is what makes me insane about Political Parties. They don’t help our nation out whatsoever. They turn us against each other. It’s impossible to put every person in the US in a cookiecutter group. I registered Democrate but I never even look at what party a politician is when I vote, I look at who will screw up the position the least. Which as sad as it is in this day and age is almost impossible to find. We’ve seen both parties run this country into a hellhole. If Palin has ANY good platforms or anything remotely intellegent to say than by all means get in there and go for it. Being a Repbulican, good mom, and nice person does not make a good president or VP.
And BTW lady-you’re ON A GOSSIP BLOG. Not Time Magazine. Get over yourself and play along and lighten up.
Because we need more books written by history’s election losers.
Cathy,
That is totally untrue. People do not think she is ‘stupid’ because of her stand on abortion or because she is raising a child with Downs, and to accuse them of such a thing is beyond the pale. Mrs Palin is a product of her own making, she gave some terrible interviews and is clearly easily thrown off kilter.
There are brilliant, talented, highly educated women in the Republican party, she may be bright and quite charming, but she just can not intellectually hold her ground against the likes of Condi Rice, Lisa Murkowski, Susan Collins or Olympia Snowe. That doesn’t mean she isn’t a perfectly affable person, she is just better off doing exactly what she is doing, helping her party instead of hurting it. The GOP can not afford to have a candidate who is so lacking in soundness at this point and time.
Can any of you actually list an accomplishment by Obama? something besides being elected President. Anything prior? Any bills he wrote and got passed? Had he EVER travel outside the US prior to running for the office?
This whole deal with Palin being uninformed and inexperienced is the same for Obama. He too was uninformed and inexperienced, but he was elected to the HIGHEST office in the US. He has been blindly followed, no matter his policies. BLINDLY followed. I have nothing against him as a man, but he was NOT ready to be President. He had never even run a company, a state, a city, or government. You want to talk about Palins inexperience, then you too must talk of Obama’s. It can’t be a one way street. So he was a Senator. She was a govenor.
If you look at all, with open eyes and ears, of WHY she left office, you will see the real reason she left. She was hamstringed by the people in the media and the far left.
I don’t write here to offend anyone, I’m just SO TIRED of all the ONE-WAY STREET stuff. Palin was TOTALLY critized over her outfits and the amount paid for them by the RNC, but the Obama’s can do a $100,000 date to New York and NOTHING is said. when did we lose our ability to chose between right and wrong because we are so blinded by our loyalty to a POLITICAL party. I cannot tell you how sad this makes me for the country as a whole. And that’s ALL the people of this country. Black, white, brown, red.
By the way, I’m a conservative that believes a woman should have the right to chose what’s best for her.
I only brought up the abortion aspect and handicapped aspect, because I see it all the time.
Time Magazine. I wouldn’t write for that rag 🙂
Cathy – Obama traveled to the following countries during his time as senator as well as being part of the Foreign Relations Committee:
2005
Moscow
Kiev
Baku
Azerbaijan
2006
Qatar
Kuwait
Iraq
Jordan
Israel
South Africa
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Kenya
Djibouti
Chad
Oh and Sudini, darling, if someone in the crowd yelled “kill him”, that’s absolutely the same treatment Bush got.
She didn’t preach hate, she still doesn’t preach hate, and Hillary Clinton said WAY worse things about Obama than Palin ever did. Just go over the transcripts from the election year of 2008 and see Hill’s comments.
And I understand your being tired of the one way street stuff. I totally get that. But I see so much more of that on the Right. Fox News is so tirelessly, conservatively biased, and they have spread more mis-information than any other media outlet to date. So I get it. I really do. And I appreciate your point. But I have to say too that there is more of a dogged, stubborn nature to the conservative right (Christian Conservatives in particular) and I think this comes from the idea of the need for blind faith in religion. This same blind faith is applied to the choice of party leaders, in my observation.
Cathy dearest, Bush got more of a “Bush is a terrorist” thing because…why was that..OH ya! He started a war with a country based on lies and betrayal, thereby being responsible for the needless deaths of THOUSANDS of American soldiers, and hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians. (again, I refer to my previous statement on blind faith).
Palin spewed vitriolic lies about Obama being a danger to the general public and continues to (ie. Death Panels?) She likes to use that phrase a lot because she knows it will work to get the uneducated people riled up. Even though it’s a total lie. She doesn’t seem to mind that though. Maybe she’s more of a part-time Christian then?
I’m not Crazed Obama fan either, but I respect what he’s done so far…agree with all of it? Nope didn’t say that-it’s impossible to agree with what someone does 100% of the time. But I LOVED that once elected he appointed people to positions based on skill not who patted his back during his run. That’s something we haven’t seen in a LONG time. Maybe it was time we voted someone into the post that wasn’t experienced and tainted by the shady crap politicians do. I thought Obama truly meant what he said about what he wants for the country and of course you don’t agree with any of what he wants to do and you didn’t vote for him. But guess what-at least guy is following through with some of his promises. That’s more than I’ve seen in decades from any other President in my lifetime. I don’t see why if your a Dem or Rep you have to be so black and white about everything. The governements biggest problem is their constant battle against each other. If a D is voted in Pres, the R’s spend the whole term trying to make sure they’re guy gets voted in next time. And vice-versa. Obama could be trying to pass a cure for cancer and because that might make him look good and be construed as having a good term, some R’s will try to veto it and spread rumors that it’s really poison. And it goes the same reversed. This country would be amazing if they’d just work together and quit trying to make the other group look bad.
(clapping for Sudini)
@Praise: 😉
Well said Eileen 🙂
Cathy wrote: “… She was a govenor.”
So was Jesse Ventura, for longer than she was, does that mean he would make a good POTUS? No.
Like it or not, and I gather you don’t, the ‘is Palin more or less qualified’ than Obama point is moot, he is the POTUS, period. You need to accept that fact rather than crying over spilled milk and being divisive. Everyone wants the best for the country and our fellow Americans, we may have different ideas about how to go about that, but ultimately we share the same goal.
Ask yourself this, would you actually wish to have a POTUS who ‘seems like a nice person’ but is easily flustered and isn’t very well educated in comparison to others running? This country has to deal with some terribly serious issues and terribly serious people, for our own safety we can not afford to have a leader that is thrown off the mark by Katie Couric. How could Palin handle the likes of Dmitry Medvedev or Mahmoud Ahmadinejad?
The old war thing. If you know your US government, you know it takes the Congress to go to war, NOT just the Pres., so please quit that very tiring argument. Under Bush, we have had NOT one single attack since 2001, and had Clinton done his job, we wouldn’t have had 9/11, because we would have already taken care of Bin Laden when he was offered to us.
It wasn’t just our government that went to war, other goverenments went with us because they all saw the same flawed data. Bush didn’t produce that data. Congress VOTED to go to war with evidence produced by Intelligence. Our’s and other countries.
And Obama put people into positions because of skill and not because they patted him on the back????? OMG!!! Please. That is so ridiculous. Rahm Emanuel? Valerie Jared? Van Jones? These are all his Chicago cronies. LOL… Now I am laughing. People with skill.
Yeah, I watch Fox, and CNN and NBC, CBS, ABC, etc., all of them. Then I decide who is actually reporting on what’s going on, rather than covering it up (or just not reporting it). Why wasn’t Reverend Wright and Bill Ayers discussed at every single nightly new story? If Bush had those past radical associations, he would have been hung up by his toes.
I sound like a Bush worshiper, but alas, I am not. He kept me safe, and for that, I cannot thank him enough.
As for accomplishments by Obama? Any?
Did he ever do ONE thing prior to being the Pres that qualified him for the highest office in our government.??
By the way, if your thinking I’m a McCain fan, your wrong. Neither of them were fit for office.
C’mon man…she can bearly spell and write in complete sentences…much less write a freakin book. She likes the mula…the cash!…didn’t she go on an outragous shopping spree during the campaign. Got a taste of the good life and she is going to capitalize on it her 15 minutes. To her it’s easy money manipulating the asswhips that support her. Suckers!
Thrown off by Katie Couric. Do you remember Obama’s (57) states comment, or “Iran and N. Korea aren’t threats, there just little countries”.
Sarah Palin got hit one time, and that’s ALL you can come up with. It’s the same argument over and over.
Spilled milk.
Talk to me in 4 years, when this entire economy is destroyed.
Maybe in her memoir she can tell us how it took 5 years to get a degree from 6 (or is it 6 years from 5) community colleges. She even quit there. I hope and pray every day she runs in 2012.
Having lived in Alaska for 20 years, I’ve learned that Alaskan politicians are especially ill-suited for national office.
I applaud her for getting her degree. It’s taken me 30 years, and 4 different colleges. Why is that such a hit against her.? Lots of people do that.
Folks, I didn’t think Sarah Palin was qualified for VP, I just don’t think she deserved the God awful treatment she got. Will she be qualified to run in 2011, I really don’t know. We’re not there yet.
Cathy Come ON. Not to be rude, but can I ask how old you are?? Because these comments reeeeeeeek of a 60’s extreme conservative woman in Texas who thinks gay people are going to hell and global warming is a myth. Everything you are saying is so over the top how can you expect anyone on here to get any kind of message you are desperately trying to communicate? In all honesty I don’t think Bush was the worst POTUSA ever, but he certainly wasn’t the best either. He was the typical guy who rode in on daddies coat tails and didn’t even come close to measuring up. To say Dubya “kept you safe” is ridiculous! They started a war that was WAY overdue with another country to make up for ignoring the warnings about possbile terrorist attacks with airplanes because the notion seemed completely ridiculous. Osmama is out there right now rebuilding his army and planning another attack. Did YOU loose anyone on 911?? Do you have a CLUE how many rescuers who are DYING were being treated by his cabinet after all the hooplah died down?? Uh I DO and I lost someone very close to me who couldn’t cope with the horrible emphysema and images of body parts he dug up for weeks. He killed himself because he was denied paid therapy to help him treat his gambling and alcohol habit that was crushing his wife and family. Two years after 911 everyone including the gov’t forgot about the victims those terrorist left behind and quit supporting the ones who gave everything to help.
I was willing to hear you out and I never once spoke about Bush. I’m living in the now and just tryiung to keep my hopes up that things can change. Your comments hit WAY below the belt of what is even remotely sane. You are so blinded by the fear of a change that its just making you a bitter angry person who disagrees with anyone with different views. Join this century and take a look around.
Thank you, Cathy, for today’s high comedy.
I’m glad Bush “kept you safe”, but unfortunately thousands upon thousands of other Americans cannot say the same … because they’re dead.
Cathy, before you honestly blame Clinton, or any other administration other than Bush 1 and 2 -can we talk about the PNAC? Dick Cheney, Paul Wolfowitz, etc.,?
Can we talk about the Niger papers? -manufactured (“produced”) evidence, the outing of Valerie Plame, “secret bio/chem plants” that were actually bakeries and such, Powell’s comical field trip to the UN, United Defense to Haliburton and the military industrial complex, the standing down of the watch over Osama along with removing the spy drones (Spring 01), can we talk Afghanistan, pipelines and poppies? Can we chat about the US Constitution (and repeated violation(s) of), illegal invasions and “war” crimes? Can we talk about the Clean *choke* Air Act” and “No (every) Child (and state) Left Behind? Secret “Energy” meetings …
Oh, that doesn’t even scrape the tip of the iceberg, Cathy.
Bush “kept you safe”, but everyone else had to suffer and suffers still (can we talk economy, Cathy?) …
“Sarah will have the support of WOMEN”
‘Vickie’
I can assure you that I donot know nor have ever met one woman who supported or will support Sarah Palin….
Her base of support is amongst a percentage of the right wing evangelicals and even a good amount of them would not support her.
Her views are archaic,out of touch and insulting towards women and the sooner she takes her money and runs the better although if she is the Republican nominee for 2012 it will make for amazing comedy!
I heart Popcorny
Thank you, Popcorny, for reminding me how bad the last eight years sucked. Every now and again I doubt Obama’s ability because I disagree with him on an issue, but then I think of the alternative and I am so relieved things turned out the way they did.
Sarah got the nod because she was practically a younger Hilary Clinton clone in all but ideology. She was there to steal Clinton votes. You can’t be a rogue if you’re hand-picked by a committee for a specific purpose.
DEAR SARA
THIS SHOULD DRIVE THE FOOLS CRAZY. I SURPORT SARA SHE IS AN INSPIRATION FOR US WHO DO RECOGNIZE REAL PEOPLE-REAL EVENTS-REAL NEEDS AND DO KNOW WHAT STUPID LOOKS AND SOUNDS LIKE. BUT WE STILL LOVE YOU IDIOTS.
There’s sure some hilarious stuff on here today. In all caps no less!
All caps, misspellings,improper punctuation AND blind support for Palin…wait, who’s the idiot again?
God help us that these people are out there. Stupidity is dangerous.
Sarah Palin’s soon-to-be-released book was ghostwritten by Lynn Vincent.
Who’s Lynn Vincent? She’s the co-author of a book with white supremacist blogger Robert Stacy McCain.
If you’re going out shopping for a ghostwriter, how hard is it to find reputable people without extremist views and associations?
There are thousands of people who could have done this job. Sarah Palin picked one who is an extreme anti-abortion creationist, associated with an open white supremacist.
Bad judgment doesn’t even begin to describe this.
Cathy wrote: “I applaud her for getting her degree. It’s taken me 30 years, and 4 different colleges. Why is that such a hit against her.? Lots of people do that.”
I also applaud her for getting a degree, as well as someone who took 30 years and 4 colleges to do so, that is fantastic and well done, hard work and perserverance. And while that is admirable, I would suspect that most people would prefer that the POTUS be highly educated, very well versed on Constitutional/International law, more so than the average person.
I guess we must agree to disagree. While she seems like a very hard working, affable person, Mrs Palin just does not have the intellectual prowess to hold her own as the POTUS. I am not being ‘mean’ to her, she just really isn’t equal to the task. Why not fight for Romney, Collins, Jindal, Snowe, or even Huckabee? They are far more suitable Republican candidates, highly educated, articulate, etc.
Beverly wrote: “I SURPORT SARA SHE IS AN INSPIRATION FOR US WHO DO RECOGNIZE REAL PEOPLE-REAL EVENTS-REAL NEEDS AND DO KNOW WHAT STUPID LOOKS AND SOUNDS LIKE”
Ummm, it is Sarah, not Sara.
By the by, please lay off the ALL CAPS thing, it doesn’t help make your point. And having followed the commentors here, regardless of party affiliation, it is clear that the eloquent CB folks know exactly what ‘stupid’ looks, sounds, and writes like.
Oh, I missed one thing. Taylor B, thank you for a very decent post. I agree with you, all except for the Huckabee thing. Ugh. 🙂
Take care.
Cathy,
Well I did list him last 😉 I kid… He seems like a very nice fella, POTUS? Maybe not so much. But people seem to like him.
We may not agree on policy and candidates, but is nice that we can disagree with no hard feelings and in a polite fashion and thank you for that respect, which is very cool in my opinion. So ‘right on’ for us CB posters… or whatever is the current ‘cool’ way to say ‘right on’?? Holy Hannah, I feel old. Perhaps we are ‘phat’? Or ‘rockin’? Maybe ‘hip’? Hell if I know… 😉
H Grex wrote: “Sarah got the nod because she was practically a younger Hilary Clinton clone”
Are you trying to induce a ‘hell no’ heart attack on Sec Clinton? Because that comment just might do so.
Like her positions or not, Sec Clinton while she may not be ‘likable’ is a very experienced person, legislator, lawyer, etc.
I would have been very interested in seeing a Palin/Clinton debate.
Can you just imagine?
Didn’t mean the Palin/Clinton comment as a slam, but she does resemble Hil when she was younger- at least superficially.
H Grex,
I was just kidding. I gotta say I don’t see the physical resemblance, except they both have rocked the poofy hair and ugly glasses from time to time. 😉
Hieronymus Grex:
I just got back on here to read up on follow up comments and read your post about Sarah’s choice of ghost writer. Here’s a kicker….I’M a ghost writer!! And seeing my views can you imagine how THAT collaboration would go?? LOL I’ve worked with some seriously unusual people out there and try to just work through it and give them what they want…but I could see myself struggling on that one!! lol
“with the help of a ghostwriter,” LOL
in other words, she talked to the ghostwriter once or twice, read his/her drafts and made little notes in the margins if she felt like it was needed.
what a joke.