Let's not forget that we won, and won big. While Sarah makes a very inviting target of herself, and I don't really believe in cutting any of these people any slack, I think your admittedly humorous snarking is a bit of a pile on in this instance. You're risking making her a sympathetic figure.

From the Associated Press, as qouted in the Wall Street Journal, hardly a bastion of leftie thought:

The Palins’ assets seem enviable: a half-million-dollar home on a lake with a float-plane at the dock, two vacation retreats, commercial-fishing rights worth an estimated $50,000 or more and an income last year of at least $230,000. That compares to a median income of $64,333 for Alaskans and $50,740 for Americans in 2007, according to the Census Bureau.

Jesus Hernandez Christ, I got raked over the coals as a junior inkstained wretch for not doublechecking some stuff like a line-item from a county commission budget, but apparently the higher you go in journalism, the less you have to check or prove. Eventually you become a Washington correspondent and you're allowed to say that a grouchy, snarky, irritating frat boy president is "the kind of guy you'd like to have a beer with!"

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What is it going to be, a coloring book? Who's going to read it? I imagine the mouthbreathers who love her not being avid readers.

Doesn't she and her husband have assets exceeding a million dollars? That's not Cindy McCain wealthy, but she's not exactly living is poverty -- especially by Alaska standards.

Writing a book, or having someone else write a book in her name, is probably the smartest thing she's done. It's obvious that the verbal approach hasn't worked too well for her. With a ghost-written book she can come off as knowledgeable and even articulate. Her biggest problem, though, is her tendency to lie. She can get away with it in the world of sound bites, where the media is too lazy to fact check or point out her lack of veracity. She'll have a much more difficult time of exercising her lack of concern about facts in book form.

when a person who couldn't name one book she ever read, with the exception of the bible, is "writing" a book.

Amen to your comments -- you beat me to it. *I* would certainly not have used the words "not wealthy" to describe the Palins.

Now, striving mightily to avoid being TOO snarky, I can't believe it will be very hard to discern whether or not Sarah Palin essentially wrote her book herself. Even given the fact that few people write the same way they talk, the book's text itself will tell the tale on who really authored it.

I'd certainly expect the usual kind of tag line on the bookcover if Sarah gets "help", something much like this:

"You Betcha! My Story" by Gov. Sarah Palin (with Joe the Ghostwriter).

Ann Coulter could ghost write for her. The title could include be something like "...as told to Ann Coulter". Ugh.

I wonder which NeoCon/Fundie hack they'll hire to do the "riting" for her. He'll have to be sure not to use polysyllabic words or her "believers" won't be able to understand it. Perhaps it should be done in pictures.

"include be something like?" ohhh - sorry all. not enough coffee today.

ha ha

That's the only reaction this (or any other) story about Sarah Palin deserves.

I thought I read something about the fact that she wasn't allowed to have income from other sources as long as she was governor. Wasn't that put forth when they were talking about her talk show?

Don't worry: If any part of the book reads "include be something like?" we'll know she wrote it. Or as George Bush would say, wroted it. :-]

"There have been a great number of things and distortions said that were to have given many the impression, over the course of this past campaign, where quotes were taken out of context or inserted or completely fabricated in the total span of the election. I felt that the media, because of distortions and misrepresentations, needed to be explained in a way that ordinary Americans can come to realize that there was another side of that story, and that side that must be laid out for people to see the whole truth.

It is my sincere hope that, after reading this book, that those people who seek to know the whole truth and who are not completely misinformed by the liberal media, could find in a way that otherwise wouldn't be available to them in any other way, the information about what was real and what didn't. The people of this great country deserve to have the information that is the truth, and deserve to have that presented to them, which is why I would be writing this book, to explain, in a way that they would not otherwise have, the truth, without media distortion.

I am not trying, because it would not be right, in any way to change peoples' thinking or the way they think, that wouldn't be a proper thing, but rather it is my hope to present truths and information in a non-distorted form of manner, to allow the people, who are the American people, who are a greatest people in human history, to draw to their own conclusions that which the truth really is."

Clearly this just has to fall under fiction becasue Bible Posh has yet to let the facts ruin any of her accounts to date.

Guess what the "intolerants" are going to be giving to one another next Christmas?

It'll be a coloring book.

Sarah Palin and her family are not poor. They have the life in Alaska and her 7 year old daughter was pictures carrying a Louis Vuitton bag. They are definitely not poor. Also, I'm going to have to put Palin's book in the same category as Joe the Plumber's book. It's hard to imagine a woman with such awful verbal skills and limited to if any literary skills actually write a compelling book without it being major conservative propaganda to pump up the reputation of her family as well as the GOP. I'm reading Barack Obama's books right now and they are very well written and compelling to read. He is very graceful with the pen. I'd like to see Palin try doing the same, if she can.