Sarah Palin’s new book, Going Rogue, will be published ahead of schedule — 1.5 million copies hitting the streets November 17:

Harper publisher Jonathan Burnham says the former Alaska governor invested herself deeply and passionately in the project.

Ah. File under “Fiction,” then. Or will her Facebook ghostwriter finally be revealed?

Palin finishes memoir, ‘Going Rogue,’ out Nov. 17 [AP]

We don’t care if he’s going to do for Playgirl what he did for GQ — Levi Johnston strikes us as the only decent human in the Wasilla Funhouse. Especially if you’re grading on a curve:

Sarah told me she had a great idea: we would keep it a secret — nobody would know that Bristol was pregnant. She told me that once Bristol had the baby she and Todd would adopt him. That way, she said, Bristol and I didn’t have to worry about anything. Sarah kept mentioning this plan. She was nagging — she wouldn’t give up. She would say, “So, are you gonna let me adopt him?” We both kept telling her we were definitely not going to let her adopt the baby. I think Sarah wanted to make Bristol look good, and she didn’t want people to know that her 17-year-old daughter was going to have a kid.

Imagine, if you will, the dramatic scene some twenty years from now:

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Should we have seen this coming?

WHEREAS, Healthcare Decisions Day is designed to raise public awareness of the need to plan ahead for healthcare decisions, related to end of life care and medical decision-making whenever patients are unable to speak for themselves and to encourage the specific use of advance directives to communicate these important healthcare decisions…

NOW, THEREFORE, I, Sarah Palin, Governor of the state of Alaska, do hereby proclaim April 16, 2008, as: Healthcare Decisions Day in Alaska…

Yes. Yes, we should have.

For ‘Death Panels’ Before She Was Against Them? Palin Endorsed End Of Life Counseling As Governor [Think Progress]

Healthcare Decisions Day [Sarah Palin/Google Cache]

It’s war!

1. Palinize (32 up, 121 down)

To attack a person for his or her conservative values by focusing an inordinate amount of attention on a single example of that person falling short (or being perceived as falling short) of the values they espouse. The term is derived from excessive criticism of Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin by the mainstream media and other public figures after it was learned that Palin’s unwed teenage daughter was pregnant.

2. Palinize (110 up, 15 down)

to exaggerate the truth or lie by omission: I palinized my resume.

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Although her speech and tweets are celebrated marvels of free association, America is being asked to believe that Talibunny’s Facebook posts are written in her own hand:

The provision that President Obama refers to is Section 1233 of HR 3200, entitled “Advance Care Planning Consultation.” [2] With all due respect, it’s misleading for the President to describe this section as an entirely voluntary provision that simply increases the information offered to Medicare recipients. The issue is the context in which that information is provided and the coercive effect these consultations will have in that context.

What was that? A footnote? One of eleven? Show your notes, Sarah. Until you can prove you birthed your own post, we’re forced to conclude you bought it from a Kenyan term-paper mill.

Concerning the “Death Panels” [Sarah Palin/Facebook]

Another Facebook screed:

There are many disturbing details in the current bill that Washington is trying to rush through Congress, but we must stick to a discussion of the issues and not get sidetracked by tactics that can be accused of leading to intimidation or harassment. Such tactics diminish our nation’s civil discourse which we need now more than ever because the fine print in this outrageous health care proposal must be understood clearly and not get lost in conscientious voters’ passion to want to make elected officials hear what we are saying. Let’s not give the proponents of nationalized health care any reason to criticize us.

Some note that she’s taking the Glenn Beck Cover My Ass approach to the ongoing riots debates, while others amuse themselves trying to square the latest statement with Friday’s Death Panel classic.

And us? We’re amazed at her sudden ability to string clauses coherently — a talent not evident when she’s using her own mouth, and not a mouthpiece.

A Message to Alaskans about the Stimulus Veto and the Health Care Town Halls [Sarah Palin/Facebook]

Welcome back, Talibunny!

The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down Syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama’s “death panel” so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their “level of productivity in society,” whether they are worthy of health care. Such a system is downright evil.

Health care by definition involves life and death decisions. Human rights and human dignity must be at the center of any health care discussion.

Good to know. And who is your insurer? With service like that, we’d be happy to sign up.

Statement on the Current Health Care Debate [Sarah Palin/Facebook]