Really? We have a raging debate about healthcare right now, and she is completely absent. After making some statements about death panels, she has disappeared. We are hearing a lot from pretty much everyone, from Limbaugh to Beck, from Huckabee to Romney, but nothing from Palin. Heck, Palin didn’t even win a recent straw poll of potential presidential nominees. She didn’t even come in second. I think this statement is demonstrably false.

Also, when a person buys a book about Palin, they are not voting for her. They want to know what she has to say. And let’s face it, Palin says a lot of really loony stuff. I’m tempted to read it just to marvel at her wacky thinking, not to vote for her.

Books can definitely be useful for people with political ambitions — especially those who don’t have official government jobs and therefore no daily claim to the camera — but I think Maneker is taking Palin’s attractiveness to the public a little too seriously. Some people think she is a deep thinker, most think she is a freak. And freaks sell books.