Sarah’s heart, though stout and brave, still like muffled drums is beating past the last election grave. I don’t know if it has taken her to Iowa either, but the campaign cycle is still young.īut art, including political art, is long, and time is fleeting.
Unlike a couple of book tours done over the years by Newt Gingrich, the Palin parade has not yet included a stop in New Hampshire, the state with the nation’s first presidential primaries every four years. But is the book tour an end in itself? Or is it the prelude to a campaign to be (sorry, Hillary) the first woman ever nominated for and perhaps elected to the office of President of the United States? Obviously, she had committed to writing a book and received a princely sum for a simple, 45-year-old hockey mom - $1.5 million, in fact - as an advance. Was it because she hadn’t made up her mind? Or was it that she wanted to get an early start in campaigning for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination. But the governor of Alaska knew what she was doing then and, contrary to the speculations of some in the Washington punditocracy, she did not take leave of her senses in July of this year when she resigned as Governor of Alaska to… well, she didn’t say exactly what she was going to do. “She’s got a baby, what is she doing?” asked one woman I know when she heard of Sen. That was child number five for Todd and Sarah Palin, with their eldest, Track, already in the military and headed for Iraq. So is her special-needs child, Trig, born with Down’s Syndrome only a few months before his mother was tapped to run for Vice President. How many women have won a local beauty contest, finished second runner-up in the state pageant, then gone on to be Mayor, Governor, and vice presidential candidate of one of the two major parties, all while giving birth to and raising five children? How many have earned the nickname “barracuda” for toughness in athletic competition and “Miss Congeniality” in the aforementioned state beauty pageant? Lord, it must be hard to pretend you’re just a typical American career mom when your book about yourself sits atop the bestseller list a week after it hit the bookstores. Going Rogue is subtitled “An American Life,” but Sarah Palin is hardly the typical American “hockey mom.”
“I love to write, but not about myself,” wrote Sarah Palin on page 409 of a book that is almost entirely about herself. Article audio sponsored by The John Birch Society
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