Sarah Palin received a $1.25m advance for her autobiography, Going Rogue

Conservative darling Sarah Palin has been hitting the headlines again. Last month Wasilla’s ex-mayor showed she still had that certain touch, with a deft intervention in the race for New York’s safely Republican 23^rd congressional district. Palin backed an ultra-conservative candidate against her party’s official pick, moderate Dede Scozzafava. Scozzafava promptly quit, and endorsed the Democratic candidate, who proceeded to win handsomely, the first time a Democrat had won in more than a century.

If this adroit contribution to conservative renewal didn’t have Republican bosses worried enough, Palin yesterday launched her biography, Going Rogue—a tell-all look behind her comparably nimble tilt at the vice-presidency, back in 2008. The book has already sparked angry remonstrations among John McCain’s staff, with campaign manager Steve Schmidt describing as “total fiction” the allegation that he yelled at Palin after she was