Okay, I have to admit it. I’m torn! I’m referring to Sarah Palin’s new book: Going Rogue. On the one hand, I really think she has more than exceeded her 15 minutes of fame and I don’t want to add it. Also, I don’t care what they say, I’m pretty darned sure Sen. John McCain selected her at the last minute without vetting. He thought he could lure conservatives as well as females who were angry at then Senator Barack Obama for not selecting Sen. Hillary Clinton as his running mate. As if! Anyone knows that Palin is the polar opposite of Sen. Clinton, and not just because Clinton graduated from Yale Law School and had more experience under her belt than waving at Russia from her back door. Their ideologies are completely different.

But now that we averted that near encounter with Palin only a banana peel away from the presidency, I guess I can be a little more relaxed about it. Personally, I was hoping for a reality show. Sarah Palin has that folksy charm. She’s kind of an adventure girl, hunting from a helicopter and helping her husband in his commercial fishing venture. She has the daughter’s baby daddy drama. We know that with a little help from someone else’s money, she has good taste in clothes. And face it, as long as she’s not running the world, she looks like she can be a lot of fun.

And I am oh so curious. I am dying to read about her take on the McCain campaign’s handlers. Reports are that she slams them for muzzling her instead of allowing her to charm the constitutuents, and for sending an unexpected $50,000.00 bill representing the campaign’s expense in vetting her. Why should she pay that outrageous sum for the inefficient vetting job?

We’ve heard she also has it in good for the media and particularly, Katie Couric. Anyone remember Katie asking her about her foreign affairs experience and the economic bailout?

Here’s my dilemma: I really think it makes for a fascinating book. It should be an interesting take on campaigning in America, as well as the inner workings of a mind we had difficulty understanding during the campaign. Palin is a woman who galvanized the Republican Party, while likely being a major contributor to the defeat of the McCain campaign. But at the same time, if I buy her book am I contributing to her appeal, which I do not fully understand? Am I prolonging and expanding the mystique that allows her to weigh in on national and international issues that she does not always seem to fully understand? Am I rewarding the rogue child?