Interesting conservative review of "Going Rogue."

[EmeraldCityGrl]

Some good comments as well from saner Conservatives.

Palin did not go rogue at all

Saturday November 28, 2009
Categories: Republicans
John Mark Reynolds has concluded his lengthy liveblogging of Sarah Palin's "Going Rogue". I encourage you to read the whole thing, and watch a Christian intellectual who really likes Sarah Palin struggling to come to terms with her mediocre book and what it tells us about her as a politician. Excerpt:

Practical wisdom is guided not just by common sense, but by reason and the experiences of generations of wise people from ages past. Palin knows this is true, but shows no knowledge of it.
Don't tell me a plain speaking book has to be this devoid of ideas. Read Lincoln. He could get big ideas across in simple ways to farmers with primary school educations. Read Reagan. He was not Lincoln, but he did the same thing in a television age. When I was a kid, I read Conscience of a Conservative in some yellowing paperback and it made sense to me. For heaven's sake, read William Jennings Bryan who sent the Grange through the roof with prose that sounds positively dialogicala compared to this book!


http://blog.beliefnet.com/crunchycon/2009/11/palin-did-not-go-rogue-at-all.html

[OffWithTheirHeads]

1. Yeah, but the target demographic for Palin can't read at a level

above a pop up book.

[cowcommander]

2. +1

[Journeyman]

3. It's unfair to compare anyone to Mr Lincoln -- he was one of the greates writers in our history. . .

That point aside, I got a kick from John Reynold's concluding thought:

I want to like Palin. I love many things about her politics, but where oh where oh where are the ideas?

Ha, ha, ha. And this from someone who "really likes Sarah Palin."

But even more damning is the conclusion from John Mark:

. . .there is only a ghost of a personality in the corporate machine written Going Rogue.

The best you can say about this book is that it is forgettable and will be forgotten. It is a book-of-the-moment non-book meant to be purchased and given as a Christmas gift to conservatives. It is an utter waste of an opportunity for something better. . .

[EmeraldCityGrl]

4. Yes, I liked that last line especially. Somehow...

it's just sweeter coming from the lips of a Conservative.:evilgrin:

[Journeyman]

5. Oh, yes -- that made it memorable. . .

[left coaster]

6. It is an utter waste of an opportunity for something better. . .

Describing the book, or Palin herself? Either way, it works!

[snagglepuss]

7. .

[katanalori]

8. Oh, this one is PRICELESS!

from a poster at the OP's link to article:

"She attributes the lovely quote used as an epigraph for Chapter 3 to a curious source, John Wooden. (The basketball coach?) The quote – “Our land is everything to us . . . I will tell you one of the things we remember on our land. We remember that our grandfathers paid for it – with their lives” – is actually from Cheyenne chief John Wooden Leg.
I find this hilarious because this seemingly rah-rah flag-waving quote means the exact opposite of what Palin thinks it means: “You have to revere the soldiers of the past who fought for our freedoms” – when the actuality is the grandfathers he’s talking about were killed by Americans in the nineteenth century trying to take their land."

[opihimoimoi]

9. She seems to be playing the CULT CARD....7 years to grow a cult

Irony factor: Pubs engineered social numbness/dumbness...now, there are ample voters eager to fall for the Cults calling.