Sarah Palin’s Memoir Goes Rogue Ahead Of Schedule

The most disappointing aspect of the news that Sarah Palin is titling her new memoir Going Rogue is that neither this website (nor any other that I know about including, sadly, The Onion) thought to hold some sort of advance poll to guess the title since I bet ‘going rogue’ would have been a top contender. It sounds like something from a David Letterman Top Ten List.

Anyway, it’s done. “Going Rogue: An American Life” is due to hit bookstores on November 17, months ahead of the original publication date, which was this spring. Seems that Palin has been putting all the extra, non-governmental, free time to good use! The ‘rogue’ part, you may recall, was a pundit meme employed in the fall of 2008 when it looked like Palin was doing damage to McCain’s campaign by not playing by his rules. Also known as the time it became glaringly apparent McCain had made an irresponsible choice and Palin was way out of her depth.

The timing of the book is great for the publishing industry since it will allow them to capitalize on the holiday sales rush, but questionable where Palin herself is concerned. If indeed the Wasilla Wonder is planning on making a 2012 run, and it seems almost a certainty that she will, than December 2009 seems rather early in the game to be using up the nation’s attention span with a memoir of this magnitude. Of course, perhaps Palin needs the money the book sales will generate. Or wants to clear the air and establish a new narrative going forward (and stop allowing Levi run his own sort of ‘rogue’). Or maybe she’s just taken the national temperature and realized that her death paneling was so successful she should strike the iron while it is hot!

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