I don’t begrudge Sarah Palin this at all:

Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin wants to write a book and is looking
to Robert Barnett, the same high-powered DC attorney who represented
Barack Obama and both of the Clintons while they were getting their
book deals.

Palin is seeking an $11 million book advance, people.com reported.

That’s $3 million dollars more than Hillary Clinton received to pen her bestseller, Living History.

However, it should certainly lay to rest the quaint notion that Sarah was somehow authentically middle class. Just like Fred Thompson. who played the everyman role to the hilt just like any other acting role he’s played. This sort of thing is condescending on their part to the people – it’s a cynical attempt to play off of class resentment. And it works.

Related – outstanding piece by Rick Moran at The Next Right about the problem of the “splenetic conservatives” (splenecons?) who have made Palin their messiah. RedState.com, which was once the true epicenter of conservative innovation, but now has devolved into splenecon-central, is still pining for Sarah. For them, it’s about cleansing the Party. I don’t envy Rick Moran the task ahead.