For a book deal!
She's reportedly hired Washington in-crowd attorney Robert Barnett, who brokered Hillary Clinton's $8 million deal, to put together a little muse-money for herself. Previous speculation on this very blog puts the eventual deal at $6 million -- and lord knows none of my predictions have ever been wrong.
Which means that now the only thing we don't know is whether the book is going to be sneering right-wing claptrap and score-settling or a serious attempt to rehabilitate her image. Imagine Palin right now, wrestling in a very personal way with the essential conservative conflict of our time: William F. Buckley or Ann Coulter? Respect or money?
I'm betting Palin publishes a serious attempt, with lots of introspective discussion of mistakes she and other Republicans made on the campaign trail, a kind of elegaic tone poem ending with an inspiring concept for the re-birth of conservatism.
Aw, hell, who am I kidding? Sneering right wing claptrap it is!
As long as there's a ghost-writer I won't be giving Sarah any money for her book.....UNLESS she actually writes it her very own self, word-for-word then it would be great comedic reading. If she made it into a pop-up book it would sell even better....pop-up rifle....pop-up beluga whales...pop-up polar bears....pop-up fruit flies, pop-up children, etc.. Then after that I'll buy the paper-doll book with the lost cut-out wardrobe.
Posted by: SamAK | 01/24/2009 at 01:05 PM