Some wingnut welfare daddy warbucks will buy up a bazillion copies to make sure it gets on the NYT best seller list and virtually give them away as $1 promos. The media of course will acknowledge her as governor and "best selling author" with $11 million already in her warchest when she decides to run for higher office again.

iirc, one or two wingnut talking heads carped a great deal about barack obama having written a memoir or two "before he ever accomplished anything."
guess we can expect to hear the same cavils from the same people any minute now.

The history of ghostwriters and celebrities is well established going back to JFK and Ted Sorensen. You folks are sure helping her keep her name in the news. I wonder why ?

I agree that she'll do pretty well with a book deal. It's obvious a ghost writer will be doing the work. It's not as if McCain ever wrote any of his books: that was Salter's job.

As mentioned there is already an eager audience waiting for more news from Palin. Palin will be less abrasive than Coulter and Malkin, which will help her sell even more books.

Granted, it doesn't take much to be less abrasive and idiotic than Ann and Michele.

The woman has a pathological need to keep herself in the news, even within the bizarre, and
scary-to-children backdrop of a turkey farm massacre. She is certifible, as we say in the business. However, I agree the right wing will gobble it up. And as the joke goes, the republican party has a lot in common with the turkey--white meat and a right wing.
Ha ha ha ha ha I love telling that joke

Perfect for the George Bush Library. Even better with illustrations.

Maybe I shouldn't admit this out loud, but I would buy it. First, I'd love to see how or whether the ghost writer tries to imitate her thought pattern. Second, I can't wait to see if it really tries to make the argument that she reads a lot or knows anything about Russia. Third, I wonder if it will include a coherent argument of how the media mistreated her. Fourth, I'd love to hear how she felt when she learned that "Nailin' Palin" wasn't really a bio film about her. And finally, I can't wait to see the look on my stepfather's face when I give him this book instead of a birthday/Xmas gift. Until now, he has refused to admit that she's a complete idiot. Oh, how I hope it's a five hundred page, small print tome of endless run-on sentences.

"My Pet Coat" by Sarah Palin

It's precisely because any book with her by-line will sell, sight unseen, that their will be no end of people who want to fill the covers of that bestseller will their own ideas (it isn't like Gov. Palin will mind, she probably won't even read it herslef). We will no doubt then be regaled by media items with excepts of this work, along with the number copies sold, as if that number represented the people who agree with the ideas, let alone those who actually reads the book.

You folks are sure helping her keep her name in the news. I wonder why ?

We want her to run in 2012, of course.

I heard of this comment recently--what a hoot:

Regarding Bush's proposed library:

Why Does W need a $300 million dollar library?
Wouldn't it be cheaper to simply put a shelf in the out-house?

I always thought part of these deals was that the publisher pairs the "author" with a ghost writer who does some interviews with them and then writes the thing up. The $11 million is essentially purchasing "rights" to the story, not compensating the person for actually doing any work.

Wow.

"The only politician I know who can write is Barack Obama."

What a suck-up. At least we'll have the village working for our side for a while...

One of Governor Palin's skills seems to be filial secrecy and misdirection. Tripp, the mysterious new presumptive birth from Bristol, is not to be seen and even the promised People pics are shrouded in mystery. Then there's the whole muddle over whether Sarah was really pregnant with Trigg, versus Bristo, etc. Anyone know what's up with all that, and why the secretary at the Governer's Office didn't even know about the baby the day it was reported?

Given the governor's tendency to embellish the truth, can we expect any verifiable falsehoods to make their way into the book?

A Palin tell-all will earn back its advance if and only if it includes a centerfold for all the Rich Lowrys in Wingnuttia to stain.

i'd be morbidly curious to see what she & her ghostwriter deem important enough to write. I'd like to see what facets of her life she considers "hardships". Half of the readers will look for inspiration, the other half a hearty half. And with an entire section of the blogosphere prepped to pounce on any exaggeration distortion or lie - be it her personal life or political opinion - it should be a hoot. Then she'll complain that only predisposed to liking her & agreeing with her should be "allowed" to buy and read her book. It's gonna be a fustercluck of epic proportions. Can't wait.

Oh please, please, please let her write it herself. If it's written in the way she speaks, it will be full of the all the gobbledegook that spews from her vapid head. It will make absolutely no sense.

Yes, Sarah, this whole country is dying to hear your life story. Every person in this country wakes every morning, yearning to know what you think.

Anyway, I think I'll buy a copy. I have a table that has an uneven leg.

$11 million, is that enough? That's only going to by her and the first dud a couple years worth of clothes.

I can't wait to pull the professorial plagarism finding mechanism if indeed the lunatic writes the book herself. No way. Palin can't string two coherent thoughts together, as evidenced by the Charlie Gibson and Katie Couric interviews.
Relentlessly clueless, as someone wisely observed.

I loved the "My Pet Coat" reference, Lampwick.
How clever. Stefan's comment too.

Posted by at January 24, 2009 1:36

oh, but I'd never buy that POS. That's why we have all those socialistic libraries. The .000002 cents from my taxes that my town will use to buy a copy is more than enough.

"My Pet Coat" by Sarah Palin
BWAH HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

Thanks for that. I'm going to chuckle about that for the rest of the day.

Slappy Magoo is a humorous, insightful commentator. I so enjoyed posting today.

1) She's been shopping this around for a while now. Publishing is in the pits at the moment, and nobody is going to want to take an 11 million dollar flier.

2) It's funny that the ghostwriting thing seems to get emphasized when the "author" is female. There was a fuss about the difficulty Hillary Clinton had with her ghostwriters. I don't remember equivalent fusses over books by W or Bill Clinton.

Could be that Obama, by writing his own books, is highlighting that politicians never do. Who was the last president to actually write a book? Teddy Roosevelt? Woodrow Wilson? And, no, JFK did not write Profiles in Courage.

Ah. Slapping forehead. Nixon wrote his own books.

Let's get real - Palin is NOT going to get no $11 million advance! CLINTON got that kind of advance after he'd been president for eight years and been involved in, oh, a controversy or two. Palin was a freakish GOP novelty act who publicly imploded within several months on the national stage.

If she can lower her expectations, though, she will certainly get a book advance. Probably several million. But here's the catch - a publisher will only pay that sort of advance for a juicy tell-all book which will sell well, and smart politicians don't write the juicy tell-all until they're DONE running for office.

While they still have political aspirations, they write uplifting tomes full of policy prescriptions for what they would do about the state of the nation if we would only have the wisdom to put them in charge.

And here's Palin's problem. She's not smart enough to know that, and has no handlers willing to protect her from herself, and wouldn't listen to them if she did. The guidance she'll be getting will be from editors who will be encouraging her to up the Dish factor of her product.

I hope for her sake she invests the book advance wisely, because I suspect what she comes out with is going to finish her politic future.

Maybe I shouldn't admit this out loud, but I would buy it

This is why there are libraries. My local branch is small and ill-stocked. But I went back, recently, and discovered the entire NYC public library collection is now online, and you can request books from it to be delivered to your local branch.

this means not just being able to read books without taking up precious apartment space, it also means being able to pick up a book that you fear may suck without it costing you anything.

You folks are sure helping her keep her name in the news. I wonder why ?

Hell yeah! Sarah Palin was the best thing to happen to liberals since George W. Bush. She single-handedly disproved the theory that people don't vote against a president because of their running mate. She also helped lure the wingnuts into throwing their full support into the race, and thus revealing their impotence in the polling place. They would have done much better had they abstained from supporting McCain and used his defeat as proof of how important it was to satisfy them. But since Palin lured them into the fold, they just proved how irrelevant they truly are. I hope she'll do it again in 2012. The Republican Base strategy was clearly a dud.

And the best part about it is that, the more liberals attack her, the more the base will rally to her side and want her to win. And that only makes it more likely that she'll burden the Republican Party for yet another election. We can't lose.

Here's a scoop on Palin's $150K in clothes, note URL:

http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/122200/palin%27s_%24180%2C000_wardrobe_%27in_trash_bags%27_at_rnc_hq/

If it can be determined that Palin has written the book without a ghost, I will buy books for myself as well as my friends and family. There's not a comedian/ienne alive who would be more entertaining.

If she does end up writing it herself, it'll be 600 pages, but only 4 sentences long.

I hope for her sake she invests the book advance wisely, because I suspect what she comes out with is going to finish her politic future.

No, it will strengthen it. She is the joystick in the death spiral. As she becomes more and more beloved in the know-nothing base, the party will keep moving to the right, and not the good government libertarian right, but the evil stick the government's nose in your bedroom and creationist right.

This will drive sane people out of the party, magnifying the bad wingnut effect further. You can see some people Douthat, Ambinder, Frum trying to fight this off. But it won't work, because they don't have any policy positions that are not now defined as liberal and are also sane.

Palin personifies the Republican Party in the 21st century.

"For many far-right activists, Palin is the future of the conservative movement, logic and reason notwithstanding."

Steve, I think you're misunderestimating the level of perversity on the right these days. It's BECAUSE she flies in the face of logic and reason that the conservatives love her, not in spite of it.

What none of you realize -- I guess I'm the only regular who also hangs out on Mudflats -- is that there is a specific 'anti-moonlighting' provision in the Alaska Constitution that makes any such book illegal.

"there is a specific 'anti-moonlighting' provision in the Alaska Constitution that makes any such book illegal."

What could be more natural than for the Republicans to maintain their established patterns in 2012? If it were illegal for Bush to publish a book now, he'd be working on ten manuscripts.

You folks are sure helping her keep her name in the news. I wonder why ?

Of course you would have to wonder, Mikey, because you are a mental midget and you have demonstrated your idiocy time and time again here.
Others explained it very well here; we want her to remain as relevant as possible because she will help further corrode an already rusting and sinking ship known as the GOP. I cannot believe that anyone still takes her seriously about anything, given that she's shown herself to be a completely ignorant lying hick who is SO sure about her own overblown sense of importance.

This is the biggest problem with stupid, incompetent people; they are totally unaware that they are stupid and incompetent and they tend to think of themselves are MORE qualified than everyone else. Sounds like the Bush gang to a T, so full of their own sense of importance, they never once thought they would be proven wrong about anything.

Sarah Snowbunny for Christ Palin continues this way of thinking, and I for one welcome her with open arms.

The LAST thing I would want to see is a moderate GOP candidate who understands their demographic base is shrinking daily and who would understand they need to pull their rabid, slobbering base back to the center (which the base will NOT stand for at all...yes!)

To be written in crayons.

From Bob Herbert's column:
"We’ve been watching that something this week, and it’s called leadership. Mr. Obama has been feeding the almost desperate hunger in this country for mature leadership, for someone who is not reckless and clownish, shortsighted and self-absorbed."

I'm thinking...reckless/clownish, etc. = (not only G. Bush)-- but----Sarah Palin...
Self-absorbed clothes horse.
Shortsighted--I can see Russia from my house

AND---bwa ha ha ha ha ha -----from Prup: Maybe NO book:
"....a specific 'anti-moonlighting' provision in the Alaska Constitution (that) makes any such book illegal."

Palin is not "the future of the conservative movement." Palin will be a laughable memory in four years. Forget her. The Republican party is just not that stupid. She's gone ...

The Republican party is just not that stupid.

Objection, Your Honor. Assumes facts not in evidence.

BigRenman
are you sure about that? Republicans in Congress beg to differ with you.

After Jane Dystel put the deal together for Obama's second book, Obama dumped for Bob Barnett. Instead of paying Jane 15% of the advance (and any royalties), Obama is paying Barnett his normal and customary hourly rate.

Now Barnett's got Palin. He also reps both Clintons.

Every sentence will end with "also".

You boyz love to have an excuse to spew sexist BS don't you? Reading some of the poorly constructed comments questioning Palin's ability to write isa laugh-out-loud experience.

And no, I didn't vote for her.

Peg, if mocking a semi-literate moron is sexist, how do you explain all the similar mockery of Bush? Is it ONLY sexist when the semi-literate moron is female?

book or no book, sarah palin is crashing and burning as we speak.

alaska is having all kinds of problems and her state of the state address pretty much ignored all of them.

there have been warnings about problems with food and fuel shortages in the rural areas since the summer. in october palin said she was going to form a subcabinet to study the matter. by the end of december the subcabinet had not yet met.

as i said, her SOS this past week was silent on the subject.

nah, she's toast well before 2012.

fox & friends is about her speed. maybe they'll hire her.

Peg, no one would say such things about Hillary Clinton, or Olympia Snow either. It's because Sarah is Sarah, silly, not because she's a woman.

Heh, check out anagrams at http://wordsmith.org

For Sarah Palin:

Anal Parish
A Sharp Nail
A Rash Plain
A Hair Plans
Nasal Rap Hi
Ah Liar Naps
Ha Liars Pan

For George Bush:
Be Surge Hog
Beg Surge Oh
Be Urge Hogs
Be Gores Hug!
Be Gores Ugh - more like it
Brush Gee Go
Shrub Gee Go
...
Throw in the "w" and:
Beg Surge How
Bugger We Hos
Gob Sewer Ugh
Shrub Egg Woe
Brews Ego Hug
Brews Ego Ugh
...
... it looks so damn relevant!

"You boyz love to have an excuse to spew sexist BS don't you?"

No, dear, we love to mock semi-literate morons with delusions of grandeur. We were equally hard on Dan Quayle.

"Reading some of the poorly constructed comments questioning Palin's ability to write isa laugh-out-loud experience."

ROFL... Dear heart, the difference is that we aren't asking for $11 million for a book that we'll hire a ghost writer to write. On the other hand, mocking mindless drivel like yours is truly a hilarious, albeit far too easy, experience.

"You folks are sure helping her keep her name in the news. I wonder why ?"

Because the more we do, the more foolish she looks. Next question?

Yes, Obama can write, even write quite well, but Matthews is forgetting someone. Jim Webb. He may be the only person currently in the federal government who can out-write Obama.

"Rumor has it Palin's looking for about $11 million."

Well, good luck with that, Gov. BQ (Beauty Queen).

I hope you're not paying that lawyer too much.

You may not have noticed up there in Alaska, but down here in the "lower 48 + Hawaii" there's a bit of a recession going on. Maybe Regnery hasdd $11 million to spare, but I doubt even they are willing to put that much out as an advance.

I think advances of all kinds will dry up pretty quickly. Once you've got a book on paper, then they might be willing to bid on it, but I just don't see ANY company putting out $11m against a future book in these hard times.

Peg: if I were asking 8 digits for my writing, I'd expect mockery, too. Let alone then expecting people to pay $35 for their own version. As a public service, I let you read my incoherent ramblings for absolutely free!

Regnery: the publisher of last resort for Republican sycophantic drivel.

They don't have that much dough to put out.

The way they operate is to distribute the majority of the books, at a deep discount to, volume distributors. That way they hit the best sellers list.

Who are those distributors? Christian bookstores.

Leave it another 6 months - after first publication - and you'll find them in the bargain bins on Amazon (Under $5.00)and Barnes & Noble, Powels, etc...

There is not much money to be made in those type of publications. The benefit is in the name recognition, and the temporary media blitz it generates.

Thanks the the liberal media that is of course.

PS: if you want one of those books, check out any of the used book sites online, where you can get them theoretically for free. You wouldn't want the Republican establishment to make money on it, would you? www.paperbackswap.com as an example.

there's always the library as well, if you 'must' read a screed like that.

How about some catchy Title proposals?

The Audacity of [a] Dope

How about some catchy Title proposals?

Prup said: What none of you realize -- I guess I'm the only regular who also hangs out on Mudflats -- is that there is a specific 'anti-moonlighting' provision in the Alaska Constitution that makes any such book illegal.

Could you have just told us that without the editorializing? Your constant self congratulation over pointless things makes you look really insecure. And pretty silly.

Whichever of the far right hacks she hires, he'll have to write it in words of no more than one syllable, so the Budweiser Booboisie can read it. (And I include Annie the Trannie under "he'll" as a potential ghost).

Actually, Mike K, JFK was the last President before Obama who was a writer all on his own. Ted Sorenson was his speechwriter. There's a difference.

But thanks for proving that far right bipeds lacking opposable thumbs and frontal lobes can use computers just like real humans.

All they're going to do is take one of Ann Coulter's books, change a few words here and there, re-order the chapters, and put Sarah Palin's picture on the jacket. Regenery publishes it, and it gets distributed to every Walmart in the country, and placed on the shelf next to John Hagee's latest screed. Instant million-seller.

TCinLA, you need to get out more.

I do understand and sympathize about those feet of clay, though.

As for ghostwriters, I hear Bill Ayers is available....

I don't remember equivalent fusses over books by W or Bill Clinton.

You don't remember the fuss over W's ghostwriter? Seriously? You don't remember that W fired his first ghostwriter for "A Charge To Keep" because his stuff wasn't hagiographic enough? You don't remember what the ghostwriter said afterward, about how Bush was talking in 1999 about invading Iraq the first chance he got?

You don't remember that? Or do you choose not to remember it?

It was a big topic of conversation in 2000.

You can google Mickey Herskowitz to jog your memory.

But stop denying that things that happened less than 10 years ago didn't happen.

"I do think Palin's book -- unlike George W. Bush's or Karl Rove's -- would sell well. For many far-right activists, Palin is the future of the conservative movement, ..."

Plus, she's got that whole "HOT LIBRARIAN" thing going on!!!!
/snark

Honestly people, it is time to let Sarah Palin fade back into the obscurity from which she arose.

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