Posted on 05/22/2009 3:00:23 PM PDT by anniegetyourgun
Sarah Palin has picked a Christian author and magazine journalist to collaborate with her on her forthcoming memoir for HarperCollins. The journalist, Lynn Vincent, has been at World—the nation's best-read Christian newsmagazine—for the last 10 years as a writer and editor.
This isn't a surprising choice for Palin, but it's certainly one worth noting. It's more evidence that she's honing a distinctly Christian public image since coming off the campaign trail last year. This seems to be a change from the days when she was a state-level figure, almost entirely unknown outside of Alaska.
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I am glad she got a book deal but was unaware that HarperCollins published coloring books.
Good for her. I miss seeing Sarah on TV everyday givin’ it to the Dems!
Sheesh. How on earth did the author get this from the fact that Sarah chose Vincent to be her collaborator?
Congrats to Lynn. She’s interviewed me for at least two columns she’s done for World, always is thorough and fair, and since Sarah didn’t choose me :), I’m glad she picked Lynn!
I have been a subscriber to WORLD magazine for years and it is an excellent magazine with an outstanding group of writers. Their strength is the Christian worldview they bring to current issues.
If you don’t subscribe to WORLD, you really should!!! Great magazine.
Spoken like a no-class mittwit.
- JP
FLASHBACK:
mbraynard (antiPalin RomneyBOT): "Really? I think the exact same thing about Palin, R-Retard.
An individual should be able to complete a few sentences in a row without a grammatical abortion before running for president, no?"
[Sunday, May 03, 2009 4:22:49 AM by mbraynard]
She's not honing a Christian image. She's a Christian.
And she's picked a writer who will likely understand where she is coming from.
You have a lot of nerve to judge someone..Your guy couldn’t even beat McCain, that is PATHETIC. A blind squirrel could have beaten him
Well, you’re both skilled writers/editors, LS. ; )
So true - as if she is trying to prove she’s a Christian.
I’m concerned that this may play to pigeonhole SP as the “Christian candidate.” It will also give the Palin-haters another excuse to trash the book. I don’t know anything about this writer or her magazins, maybe she’s very good. Sooner or later, however, SP is going to go have to go back to the MSM and put up some great performances. That’s not for the MSM’s benefit, but for the mushy middle whose votes she will need.
I’m not saying should try to hide her faith. But, I’m saying that to be taken seriously as a POTUS candidate, she is going to have to demonstrate mastery of economics, nat’l security, etc. I think she can do it and in time will do it, but
Your guy didn’t beat McCain either. And you’re girl couldn’t beat Katie Couric or Mulatto Jesus. What’s your point?
Vincent is also an abortion survivor from what I read. She seems like an excellent choice to help write this book
I’m not paid; it’s the other way around.
McCain was never my guy. I voted for him because of Sarah Palin. Do you think it’s really nice bashing a woman who has NEVER said one bad thing about Mitt Romney. What’s your beef with her anyway
She’ll do it with time. Be patient. She has to deal with the damn anklebiters in Alaska first.
1 more ethics complaint to swat down, and she’ll be free.
“she is going to have to demonstrate mastery of economics, nat’l security, etc. I think she can do it”
Well, let’s all pray that God and His Son Jesus helps her. I mean it. Let’s pray every day.
They already have, Lou. No worries - the book will still outsell anything a lib puts out at the time. However, I’m not convinced she’s planning a run for POTUS or VPOTUS anyway. I think she’s just interested in getting her version out.
Now if Sarah Palin who had picked a collaborator who was an avowed atheist or secular humanist would you be making the claim that Sarah was trying to dampen talk of her Christian roots.
Why can’t Sarah have chosen Lynn Vincent because she considers Lynn an outstanding writer and editor, is a woman and feels the most comfortable with her as she is telling Lynn her story?
They’ll probably make a special version so Romney can understand.
I must have been absent when the Romney/Palin war happened. I don’t remember her ever saying anything negative about him. Is the problem that he wasn’t picked for VP?
Deb - I don't know what Romney has to do with this discussion, either.
After our BOy President finishes wrecking the country, I hope the American people - after having committed a gross stupidity in November 2008 - have the good sense to put Sarah Palin in the Oval Office. A lot of our current “opinion leaders” are going down with the wreckage. Sarah will only look better and better.
I think we all know the answer as to WHY she needs someone else to write it.
"Someone's got to say it: IS MITT ROMNEY RESPONSIBLE FOR OBAMA'S VICTORY?"
"Vanity: Team Romney Sabotaged Palin and Continuing to Do So?"
"Romney Supporters Trashing Palin"
"Romney advisors sniping at Palin?"
Similar to Romney's other scortched earth tactics:
Novak: "Fred Thompson drop-out rumors traced to Romney campaign"
Geez, Dick Morris sure hated Romney. Nothing has made me sadder than the way Republicans treated each other during this campaign.
I’m still confused. Do the Romney people hate Palin? Do the Thompson people hate her? I don’t care about Huckabee or McCain.
I liked Fred Thompson, liked him the best out of all of them, but at the end of the day, thought none of them were presidential material. McCain reminds me of a Republican version of Obama..
The only reason why Romney came up in the discussion was because you posted about how did not know that HarperCollins publishes coloring books, which was a diss at Sarah, then someone else posted some of your other remarks on other threads as a paid Romney bot, saying other nasty things about her. Look, did she do well with her interview with Katie Couric, no, but not for the reason you might suspect.
What kind of question is “What do you read” anyway, what did she expect her to say “I read the damn funnies” Couric was NO friend of Sarah’s, and she wanted to embarrass her, plus Couric is pro-choice, and Sarah is pro-life, she knew the interview was not going well the second the abortion issue came up. No one brings up Couric’s interview with Joe Biden, which he talks about FDR going on TV in 1929, that was a HORRENDOUS interview, but hey, that’s Joe being Joe right.
I just think it’s wrong to bash a person who has never said one bad thing about ANY Republican, not Huckabee, not Romney, not anyone, yet they continue to say nasty things about her which I think is WRONG
Look - she bombed that interview with Couric. This isn't about defending 'our' candidate in the midst of an election. It's about finding the right candidate to nominate for the next one. And everything about her - the interviews, her speaking style sans teleprompter - even this story here where she reveals that she can't write her own book - tells me she doesn't have what it takes, intellectually - to be our nominee. There are better people out there; go find them.
Sure they do. After all, what would people such as you do to pass time whilst the adults read?
...and please, try to stay inside the lines.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBt0r9Exv2I
You or I could have given a much better answer to that question.
I don’t know anyone who hates her. I don’t know about any of that. All I know is that we need to find someone better to lead our movement/party/country.
Perhaps if you had actually READ the article, you would have seen that she has already written 20,000 of her OWN words..Obama had Bill Ayers write his book, at least Sarah is pretty much writing her own book. She keeps journals, which will all be included in the book
The classy musing of a Romney supporter...
Consistency is the key to success, even if the measure of success is how stupid you are trying to sound...
I think he enjoys it so much he volunteers now...
If Joe Biden, who is an IDIOT, can become Vice President, then anyone can do it. Vice President basically means being the mouthpiece of the President..and Obama, has put the bar so low as far as being President, I might run in 2012. I understand your points on certain things, but can you knock off the bashing. Sarah isn’t perfect, and she never said she wanted to be the head of the party, she made mistakes, yes, but enough of the crap about calling her stupid. I consider myself pretty darn intelligent but I could NEVER Govern a state, I don’t have the talent to do that. At least respect her for the amazing job she has done for Alaska, she pretty much cleaned up that state
2) Biden is irrelevant to the discussion. And so is the question of who will be the VP. That election is over. Looking forward - finding the best person to lead us forward. It ain't her.
And, at best, Ayers only helped Obama with ONE of his two books.
Wait a second, do you actually think that people write their own book and have them published. NO ONE does that..that is why there are people called PUBLISHERS who publish the books and proofread them before they are published. Not ONE politician or anyone for that matters writes an entire book by themselves. EVERYONE has either a ghost writer or they write some of it and have taped conversations with someone in order to write the rest. WOW dude, seriously, get off the hate already. You hate this woman that much that you actually counted how many pages 20,000 words are..Good God!! She picked someone who shares her views, an abortion survivor, to help her collaborate the book, what’s the big deal..wait, what am I waiting my words on, you hate the woman, so nothing I say will change your mind anyway.
Well, for now anyways...
They are what they are..they think Romney will take them to the promise land..that’s fine, they can believe any nonsense they want. This discussion had nothing to do with running for President or anything like that, but like a typical Romney supporter does, start bashing Sarah for NO reason. That is what they usually do, when they have no facts, they bash. I wonder if he would say those things to her face, HAHA who am I fooling
All this yapping about Palin having a collaborator on her book, so what? JFK’s Profiles in Courage was written by Theodore Sorensen, Hillary Clinton’s book It Takes a Village was ghost written, so was Bill Clinton’s book. Matter of fact most people who actually have full time jobs, and busy lives, don’t write their own books. McCain is one of the few politicians who acknowledged the fact that his book was a collaborative effort, almost everyone else falsely claims credit as if they really wrote their own book. I give Palin credit for admitting that her book will be a collaborative effort, she’s very busy, Governor, mother, wife, grandmother, when exactly would she have time to write an entire book in less than a year. From what I’ve read she has been keeping journals for years, plus she’s written about 20,000 words already in addition to the journals. Lynn Vincent will read the journals, read the pages Palin’s already written, about 40-50, and do a lot of interviewing, and between the two of them they will produce a great book.
She’s a collaborator - not a ghostwriter. And...I’d appreciate it if you’d not blaspheme.
Calling her an idiot among other things will not rally people to your cause. Grow up.
Real writers have editors. Semi-literate celebrities have collaborators.
Face it. She can't write a book on her own. She's sttuuuuuuppppiiiiidddd.
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