I’d put odds on it that the reviewer for The New York Times Review of Books, Maureen Dowd, Frank Rich and assorted others have already written their review of Going Rogue, but I’d lose my ass in the process. Ergo, no odds.  Always curious when the NYT gets an interest in a book destined to atop its best-seller list. Mark Levin, whose Liberty and Tyranny just passed the million-sales mark, still has yet to be reviewed at the Old Gray Whatsherface, just as Michelle Malkin’s Culture of Corruption, also atop the list, has yet to be reviewed.

Somehow, methinks Palin’s effort will get a bit more attention.

Sarah Palin’s publisher announced yesterday that her 400+ page book will be released on 11.17.09 rather than Spring ’10 as was the original goal. I eagerly anticipate reading the book, and the thermonuclear fallout that will accompany it. For the next 40 odd days, I’m sure David Letterman is putting His Best Man On It in regards to the inevitable “Top 10 Revelations in Sarah Palin’s New Book.”  References to moose, Levi Johnston, Willow Palin, Todd, Russia and pit bulls should be copious. Maybe they can juxtapose a Roman Polanski child-rape joke in there for good measure. I won’t be surprised if the entire week’s Top 10s aren’t dedicated to the Palin theme.

Of course, we’ll also get the nightly clown-car of CNN, Headline News and MSNBC gathering together a baker’s dozen of talking heads speculating who wrote the book, seeing as how they concluded long ago that Palin is completely illiterate. FOX will have positive coverage, though make no mistake, ol’ fair and balanced Bill will make sure and have Geraldo or Mark Lamont Hill on to bash, bash, bash away, then lament that “Ms. Palin is always welcome here at The Factor.”

It’s not all cranky, though. Tina Fey, who’s now won everything except a Nobel and a McArthur Genius Grant for playing Palin on SNL, will surely return to SNL for a couple of installments, and call me crazy, but I have a hunch that Fey – in the spirit of Stewart and Colbert – will pen a book in her in/famous voice playing Palin. If so, that book will win a Pulitzer for something.

I’m sure Olby will make yet another odd appearance on the otherwise splendid “The Soup” to get a shot in, as I’m sure he will on Football Night in America, though I won’t notice that one as I don’t watch NBC’s wretched Sunday night pregame show.

Then, I suspect, once the dust settles and once all the mockery has settled down, Americans will begin finishing Palin’s book, and if it’s anything like every other thing Palin has done in the last year, it will be electrifying for some, infuriating for others, and I suspect by Christmas it will be clear whether or not Palin is running for POTUS. The initial run of 1.5 million is ambitious, but I imagine a second-printing will be ordered within days of the first, especially once the book starts getting play on talk radio, which is inevitably will.

The Dear Leader has given in the neighborhood of 130 speeches regarding healthcare (penned by highfalutin paid professionals, headed by Jon “Gutter is a Tool” Favreau), and the only thing most people remember about them are the various mistakes, gaffes and admissions of truth he’s made. In one summer, Sarah Palin penned a few entries on Facebook and conceived of the most noteworthy phrase in the entire healthcare debate: “death panels.”

TDL gave a famous speech on race about which Chris Matthews compared to Lincoln, whereas the rest of us remember it for him calling his grandmother who raised him a “typical white person.”

TDL gave his Donkey acceptance speech at a giant football stadium in Denver, yet the most remarkable observation about it was Palin’s keynote at the RNC, the reference to “those fake Styrofoam columns” headed to an unnamed Hollywood backlot.

The question about Palin is this: do The Medea hate her because of what she stands for, or for how effortlessly and brutally she rhetorically guts TDL every time she chooses to? I’ve thought of this often over the past year, and I’m coming to believe that it’s the latter, that her splendid rhetorical assaults on TDL are seen by the East Coast Medea types as assaults on them, as they see nothing if not themselves in their arisen, anointed Leader, so to have some field-dressing Alaskan eviscerating him every time she pens a piece on Facebook is unacceptable, hell, it’s unconscionable!

As a reader, November is shaping up to be a good month. The philosophical biography of Ayn Rand comes out the first Tuesday of November, and just as I’m finishing that up I have Palin to look forward to. I used to read a lot of political-figure books, but they long ago turned into the same old thing. On the right, they all take the template of Rush Limbaugh’s two early-1990’s efforts (9 million in sales) , so it’s often a case of been there, done that. Palin, I suspect, will take a different approach.

Were I editing her, I would blend her biographical information with how they’ve shaped her views, especially over the last year. The rumor is that Palin’s going to take a libertarian economic stance and combine it with a neocon FoPo while retaining the Moral Majority stuff that is a must for any GOPer/Conservaitve candidate, and fair to say this could be a winning strategy.

Yet, long ago we learned that Sarah Palin doesn’t play the game everyone else is playing – I think Going Rogue will give us a good idea which game she is, in fact, playing.