Moreover, the book was obviously rushed to publication in order to take advantage of holiday sales and to beat more critical books to the marketplace. It's clear the good governor has no sense of chronology. While not nearly as garbled as some of Palin's more memorable "word salads" (so delightfully parodied by Tina Fey on Saturday Night Live), Going Rogue is both uneven in its composition and erratic in its argumentation. She remains an unapologetic warrior in our country's culture wars and one of the most divisive and polarizing politicians of our time. Instead, Going Rogue sinks even further into Palin's unique brand of narcissism and victimhood. With all the incumbent hype, one might have expected that Going Rogue would have risen above many of the petty and even vicious traits that Palin exhibited on the campaign trail last fall revving up the GOP faithful with incendiary attacks on Obama. Make no mistake about it: Dreams From My Father or The Audacity of Hope this is not. Those in conservative circles have triumphantly compared her memoir to those written by Barack Obama in advance of his run for the U.S.
In spite of Palin's well-earned reputation as a fluff muffin, Going Rogue soared to the top of all the major bestseller lists months before its official publication. Either way, someone apparently got stuck with a helluva bill for nothing. At best it was rushed at worse, it was a con job. McCain has even gotten into the act himself by admonishing Palin for her deceptions about a $50,000 bill she claimed she got stuck with for her "vetting." And the fact is, despite Palin's duplicitous assertions to the contrary in Going Rogue, she was really never fully vetted.
Republican operatives who have worked with Palin from the Mat-Su Valley in Alaska to the John McCain campaign have lined up calling Palin's "memoir" a work of "fiction." It's one big lie from its glitzy Photoshopped cover to the very final page. It's actually buried deep in the book's acknowledgments, well after Palin thanks herself.Īnd that just about sums up Going Rogue. IT'S BEEN a rather tawdry week of Sarah Palin mania as the former governor of Alaska and Republican vice-presidential nominee has taken to the Lower 48 to promote her highly anticipated memoir, Going Rogue, which was written with evangelical co-author Lynn Vincent-though you won't see that rather significant fact included anywhere on the cover or even on the book's title page.
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