Daily Archives: October 3, 2009

In a feat usu­ally reserved for the likes of J.K. Rowl­ing and Dan Brown, Palin’s book was No. 1 on Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble.com just two days after Harper announced it had moved up the release date from the spring to Nov. 17 and that the memoir’s title was “Going Rogue.”

I guess when she’s not oth­er­wise occu­pied (cling­ing to her guns and her reli­gion) Sarah Bar­racuda found time to col­lab­o­rate on a best seller.  And, though a God– and gun-clinger she may be, she is most most def­i­nitely not bit­ter (or, as my old friend Henry in New Orleans, he of the delight­ful and highly secret Coca-Cola ham sauce, would put it:  “mo deb­bly”).

I haven’t been so jazzed about a politi­cian since the days of Gene McCarthy’s Children’s Cru­sade.  And the effect this must be hav­ing on those who are truly bit­ter — are you lis­ten­ing, John McCain and your staff of back-biting skunks? — must be in a state of impo­tent fury not seen since Fiorello LaGuardia stuck his thumb in the eye of the New York Tam­many Hall machine.

I could not so love Palin, loved she not honor more.    Can any­one name another politi­cian who vol­un­tar­ily for­sook the lime­light because the mosquito-cloud of bile-drenched “lib­eral” Harpys was harm­ing her fam­ily in a con­certed effort to neu­tral­ize one of the very bright­est rays of the Amer­i­can char­ac­ter sun?

In my more unselfish moments I kind of hope she doesn’t go for the White House.  But she is in some ways  a Jeanne d’Arc char­ac­ter and this may be a des­tiny she can’t escape.  At least she has already been burnt at the stake by the media, the “lib­er­als,” and John McCain’s staff.  She has a grit not usu­ally seen in politi­cians.  More likely fic­tion, like “Ma” in The Grapes of Wrath.

You go, girl!  A lot of us are with you.