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If you thought being governor of Alaska and a new grandmother would be enough to fill the cold, dark nights in the Arctic state, you underestimate Sarah Palin, the failed vice presidential candidate.
Palin has reportedly enlisted the services of Robert Barnett, the Washington lawyer who represented President Obama, would-be President Hillary Rodham Clinton and former President Bill Clinton in their multimillion-dollar book deals.
Barnett declined to comment. But a variety of published sources, including the Hollywood Reporter, said that Barnett was on board in helping to sell a Palin book. Presumably, the book would tell her side of the 2008 presidential election, when the GOP nominee, Sen. John McCain of Arizona, plucked Palin out of relative obscurity and offered her the vice presidential spot. Though she was a darling of conservatives and ignited the Republican base whenever she appeared in public, Palin has made it known that she had a difficult time with McCain’s strategists…
Sources close to Palin rejected reports of the $11-million figure and said the governor had not talked to any publisher or given any number…In any case, there is more than money at stake. Palin has been trying to stay in the spotlight, presumably with an eye on 2012, and a book could help her extend her reach beyond Alaska.
Do you think rank-and-file Republicans want her to stay in party leadership?
Thanks, Mr. Justin
I want some of those condoms.
My prejudices are bumping into one another: maybe an audio tape could sell millions of copies to the repuglican religious wingnut base==but Books????
I guess if it has a leather binding and same fake gold lettering it will look like a bible to them. They can read and not understand Palin’s Bio as well as any other.
Maybe it’s a coloring book?
I think she should be forced to use the proceeds to buy down the City of Wasilla debt that she ran up as mayor.
(Wow … I just made and fixed a typo. I was typing mayor, but typed mayhor instead. I think it was a Freudian slip, but should have been spelled maywhore. Of course, that makes her the governwhore of Alaska.)
“Do you think rank-and-file Republicans want her to stay in party leadership?”
I doubt (or at least hope) rank-and file Republicans wanted her in the first place!
She was a failed grab for the Hillary vote. Nothing more.
Look for Romney in 2012.
I think the only people who even think about Palin anymore are Dems…
With her demonstrated literacy and ability to express complex ideas, I wonder who will write this book.
#5 I wouldn’t underestimate her chances in a Republican primary. I think she could take almost anyone except Jindal.
Of course she would get blown off in the general election all things being equal.
#6, Cow-Paddy,
Why are you hiding over here? We are still waiting for you to tell us where in the Constitution Congress is forbidden to regulate CEO’s wages and give us a citation on Pelosi saying she wanted to bring the Guantanamo detainees to the US.
What? You made unsubstantiated claims again? Gee, after calling so many different people trolls, why can’t you back up your claims?
And Palin is still the darling of the Republicans. If she went away Democrats would be that much happier.
Good for her. If she can get someone/company to cut her an $11m check then more power to her.
At least she is earning money honestly and not waiting for a gov’t bailout.
This is news more than a week old. Goes to show that many of you don’t keep up with much and thus explains exactly why you are leftists.
But, but, but….the people who voted for Palin can’t read.
Unless of course she is planning to write the book in King James English.
#12, Dave,
That could be one of the selling points to the publishers. I don’t expect many of her followers to read about the book though.
I am sure she will have a ghost writer help her like Obama did with having Bill Ayers write his books.
With all the rambling…it’d be longer than a Neal Stephenson book.
I don’t think rank-and-file Republicans really think, they just react.
The left’s masturbatory obsession over a powerful women who doesn’t align herself with the Democratic party is pretty damned funny.
Sarah Barracuda missed her chance to join the Senate when Begich won. Personally, I see her going for Don Young’s seat in the House when he’s ready to hang it up. Her far-right streak will play better there than in the Senate, and allow her to get more air time (and more book deals).
Also, with both a Palin and a Limbaugh thread in one day, the editors here are clearly waving the white flag.
#9, stack the court with enough like-minded justices just as the beloved FDR did and the Congress can do just about anything and everything it can possibly image. See the nonsensical Wickard v. Filburn decision as evidence.
#18 Yes. Obama, long ago stated that was his goal in order to move the US closer to a communist like state.
#14. What evidence do you have that Obama used a ghostwriter?