Gene's Report on Sarah Palin's Book

I have completed Sarah Palin’s Book Going Rogue.

It’s a good read. Her Ghostwriter, Lynn Vincent is a yeoman editor and did a good job.

I recommend it for anyone who grew up in rural America, particularly in the north. Like Dakota.

Her story is my story and vice versa.

The first hundred pages are a breeze and delightful.

It then bogs down a bit with some not so couched whining and victimization complaints.

Yes, she has been beaten upon. Politics ain’t beanbag. Some of that would have been better left unsaid.

Toward the end of the book it becomes a manifesto on the future. One I can believe in.

I appreciate greatly her well centered American greatness vision. It’s one I endorse. And she sees hope to turn it all around.

She is also not to be spat upon. If you tug on a barracuda’s tail for very long it will turn and inflict a pretty solid wound.

She has the capacity to get even. Don’t tug on superman’s cape, don’t piss into the wind, don’t diss Sarah. All bad ideas.

She’s the real deal. I want her next book to be a vision of what could be. She has one. He laying that out will mobilize the troops.

I am prepared to start Saying President Palin, I’m already pretty tired of saying President Obama.

She represents hope for sanity. The kind of sanity in the middle you and I live in. Not the fairy dust of the elite.

She is about the Middle.

A good friend who leans left in his politics, said to me that Obama’s biggest failing is that he doesn’t understand the “middle”. He has experience with the elite through school, his modicum of work experience, politics, social circles, etc.; and he has experience with the poor through his activism. However, he doesn’t really have any first-hand knowledge of the middle part of America, the 80% or so of us who aren’t destitute victims, who aren’t politically-connected, who go to work, earn a paycheck, hope our employer or small business stays afloat. For Obama the “middle” is just a concept.
I agree with this, but would take it a step further. Obama is an ideologue who sees the world through a philosophical prism. Everything is some sort of class struggle. The private sector is essentially some form of jungle in which the strong feed off the weak.

Therefore, people who have made their successful livelihoods in the private sector do not, in Obama’s opinion, have any great skill or experience that make the world go. Rather, those who succeed in the private sector are simply the best predators.

Sarah can do better. I don’t know of anyone currently who has any comparable experience or understanding of what needs to happen to get us out of this mess except her.

Do you?

PS:
It's still selling pretty well...NYT Bestsellers List

Hardcover Nonfiction

Top 5 at a Glance
1. GOING ROGUE, by Sarah Palin
2. OPEN, by Andre Agassi
3. HAVE A LITTLE FAITH, by Mitch Albom
4. ARGUING WITH IDIOTS, written and edited by Glenn Beck, Kevin Balfe and others
5. A SIMPLE CHRISTMAS, by Mike Huckabee