I suppose Joan Didion was unavailable

I think we're all impressed that Sarah Palin was able to "write" a 400-page book in four months. What kind of woman did she call on to help fill in some of the writing that she was "doing"? Well, what kind would you expect?

Sarah Palin's most consequential choice since leaving the Alaska governor's mansion may be her co-author - a staunch conservative, devoted evangelical Christian, and intensely partisan Republican from far, far outside the Beltway.

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Vincent's past projects include co-writing the memoir of General William Boykin, who blasted the media and President George W. Bush alike for ending his career over his casting the war on terror in overtly religious terms. Her most political book, "Donkey Cons," describes the Democratic Party since its inception as "pro-gangster" and the "party of treason and subversion." Her work for World Magazine, where she was an editor, includes a description of President Barack Obama as the "minority survivor" of the "black genocide" - that is, abortion.

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She's also been - unlike Palin - an outspoken foe of homosexuality.

"In decades past, men and women routinely brushed off fleeting thoughts of homosexual behavior. Now, though, gay activists have succeeded in planting a seed that says people not only can but should follow such thoughts with exploration and action," Vincent warned last year.

Curse you, fleeting thoughts! You refused to flee fleetly, and have instead persisted throughout my entire life. And my, but those gay activists were wily with their seed-planting, what with my never having met nor heard of them until well after I finally came out of the closet. Stealthy!

I suppose it was too much to hope for that, pace Santorum, we would get a thoughtful tome. Glad to know Gov. Palin is still living up to my most consistent expectations of her.