Book: The Rogue: Searching for the Real Sarah Palin by Joe McGinniss

Whether someone likes Sarah Palin or hates Sarah Palin or whether they love or hate this unabashed liberal writer, they will be tempted to want to read this book if only to bitch about what they are reading.

As for some sorted bit of tidbits, McGinniss claims that Palin snorted cocaine off an overturned 55-gallon drum during a snowmobile excursion, slept with college (and later NBA) basketball star Glenn Rice when she was an unmarried 23-year-old sports reporter (McGinniss talked to Rice for the book and he confirmed the relationship) and had an affair with Brad Hanson, Todd Palin's business partner, apparently as payback for her husband's infidelities. (Both Palin and Hanson, he notes, have denied the affair.)

Conservative or liberal, what single 23 year old, male or female, doesn't have relationships they probably would't want to sing about in the church choir. I'm not sure what asshole put out this notion that conservatives are supposed to live lives so pure that it would make Jesus look like a sinner. Wait, is that Sarah Palin throwing stones at that conservative caught with their pants down??? Not sure.

One thing that amused some of us at Sarah Palin when McCain first brought her on the national stage was you could kind of tell that this is a woman who enjoys life. She didn't bitch about things with a frown but rather a smile. At times a devilish grin. From the start we knew this was a woman who didn't walk on water and her human quality put a warmer face on conservative politics.

Then her inner struggle between the person she was and the person she wanted to be began to get on some of our nerves. That friendly face became less friendly. Both liberals and conservatives attacked the person she was, the fun loving person, and that made her personal struggle to recreate herself as a more model conservative that much more distracting, unnerving, and rather sad. It wasn't all together her fault as I doubt any woman in politics has had her family put on stage in such a public and hateful way. At first she seemed to fight to protect her family but then it was like she and her family embraced their lives being turned into a reality TV show.

Don't shoot me, but I still sort of like Sarah Palin. That said, at times the news coverage around her causes me to turn the channel. I think the degree that she continues to have a voice in politics is not a bad thing, but still as an independent I often disagree with her.

I don't really know whether the book is something I'd read all the way through or whether it would be like when I turn the TV channel away from her when my amusement fades. Still, I can see where there will be some major interest in this book.

The book will be available Sept. 20, 2011
The Rogue: Searching for the Real Sarah Palin