Posted on 09/30/2009 7:17:23 PM PDT by Saije
Sarah Palin's most consequential choice since leaving the Alaska governor's mansion may be her co-author - a staunch conservative, devoted evangelical Christian, and intensely partisan Republican from far, far outside the Beltway.
Lynn Vincent spent the summer working with Palin on a closely-guarded 400 page memoir, "Going Rogue: An American Life." The book is due out from HarperCollins November 17 - but it shot to the top of the Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble bestseller lists Wednesday as word of its publication spread.
Vincent's past projects include co-writing the memoir of General William Boykin, who blasted the media and President George W. Bush alike for ending his career over his casting the war on terror in overtly religious terms. Her most political book, "Donkey Cons," describes the Democratic Party since its inception as "pro-gangster" and the "party of treason and subversion." Her work for World Magazine, where she was an editor, includes a description of President Barack Obama as the "minority survivor" of the "black genocide" - that is, abortion...
Palin's choice of Vincent suggests that hers will be, emphatically, a partisan tract. And it is of a piece with a post-election posture in which the nation's most intensely popular, and most intensely unpopular, Republican has chosen to deepen her bond with her base at the cost of antipathy from the independent voters who decide presidential elections.
"Sarah Palin is not a Washington person - that's her whole schtick - so she's not going to get some inside the Beltway writer," said Sara Nelson, a longtime publishing industry watcher who is books editor of Oprah Winfrey's Magazine, "O."
"The success of this book will rise and fall on who much it appeals to the Christian right," Nelson said.
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
As opposed to one who tried to blow up the Pentagon?
Did you know that leftists have decided that all GOP ghostwriters must now be liberals?? I did not know this!
Oh my Gawd. Is it legal for a conservative to write a book with another conservative?? /sarc
What? A co-author from far outside the beltway? I’m cancelling my order.
Earlier, a site that must not be named was trying to accuse Lynn Vincent of being a racist, all because she worked with someone who worked with someone who worked with someone who said something racist.
Well...you can see the implicit warning...the book will ONLY appeal to the Christian right so independents should not be caught with a copy - because that just wouldnt’ make sense now would it...anyone in possession of this book by definition belongs to the far right...and therefore libraries should, perhaps, avoid the book unless a library wants to give the impression that it is a far right establishment....they might as well place a biohazard label in bright yellow just to protect those innocent people who are not of the ‘far right’ persuasion
I’ve got it on order; Amazon has it No. 1 ALREADY after just 2 days into its prerelease...
Such scrutiny for the co-author. Should we expect a similar piece for 0’s co-authors?
Man, I love this. The book isn’t even out and the libs are freaking out. Imagine how their heads will explode when the book does come out.
I just hope that Sarah gets back into opposing socialized health and cap and tax. In fact, I hope she was hearing Rush today when he explained how the rats plan to use some back door to ram this crap down our throats. Keep the pressure on the rats.
sounds like the author copied the san diego union tribune article of yesterday.
It's a freaking political book!
I don’t get it. Were they expecting Sarah to choose an “intensely partisan” liberal?
Ha ha that is great ! All we weed up.........
Obama’s co-author/ghostwriter wasn’t intensely partisan, he was intensely ideologically anti-USA.
Memo to Ben Smith: “Bipartisan” has now been exposed to America as “Democrat-RINO-anti-constitutionalist-it’s-not-fascism-if-we-do-it” partisanship.
No kidding - we actually know this now.
So, like, “partisan” means the reality of fighting against the camps.
No foolin, Ben. Check out the Amazon stats. The Dragon is waking up.
To the several posters who have commented on recent revelations that Obama’s tome was penned by Ayers: the left will never acknowledge this. It goes to the heart of the Obama the Genius myth. Take away the authorship of “Dreams of My Father” and the 3 by 5 card listing Zero’s life accomplishments is for all intents and purposes empty.
Like Independents are going for Obama a second time?
Ha! And they call Palin illiterate?
BTW, its number 1 both on Amazon and on B&N. That a lot of Christian Right readers.
Right! An evangelical Christian, as opposed to a radical terrorist? We know which one the leftist book dealers would prefer.
in part from the San Diego Union Tribune
After resigning as governor in late July, Palin spent most of August in San Diego working with Vincent on the book, “Going Rogue: An American Life.”
Rumors swirled about Palin sightings at Vincent’s condo complex in San Diego . Palin reportedly was joined here by her family and top aide, Meghan Stapleton. This month, Palin huddled with her editors in New York.
Lynn Vincent, for the past 10 years, she has been working for Christian-based World Magazine, from which she took leave to work full time with Palin.
Vincent settled in San Diego after a Navy career brought her here. From 1986 to 1989, she was stationed at Miramar Marine Corps Air Station as an air traffic controller and later at North Island Naval Air Station before retiring in 1991.
Vincent’s husband, Danny, who also was in the Navy, still works in air traffic control at North Island in San Diego
Vincent’s books have involved Christian pop singer Michael English, former terrorist Kamal Saleem and Delta Force leader Lt. Gen. William “Jerry” Boykin
The best-known of her collaborations, however, is about a millionaire art dealer whose life changed after he befriended a homeless drifter. “Same Kind of Different as Me” has sold more than 560,000 copies. It has spent 75 weeks on The New York Times best-seller list, raised millions of dollars for homeless shelters.
Ben Smith has been going nuts posting one attack piece after another regarding Palin’s book. The left wing nutjob in him is coming out loud and clear. Partisan?? Go look in the mirror, Ben! What a sorry excuse of a journalist.
You can’t help but laugh at this. I mean seriously, Politico really thinks people are going to get offended by this. OMG A RIGHT-WING CHRISTIAN!
Yep, even before anyone has seen a single page of the book, Politico knows exactly how it will be. We already know all about Politico and how it is, so it is no surprise that they come out with this load of BS.
Just remember, according to Mr. “The Other” McCain, RAAAAACIST has five A’s.
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