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COLORADO SPRINGS — Folks shivering in frigid, snowy weather outside Borders bookstore before dawn Tuesday looked more like a line for advance ticket sales of a rock concert than a political book-signing event. But instead of John Lennon, who once declared the Beatles “bigger than Jesus,” they were waiting as many as 14 hours to see Sarah Palin, the author of “Going Rogue: An American Life,” who is hailed as a Joan of Arc heroine by her fans. And some of them argue that Palin was nearly burned at the stake by the news media and GOP campaign gurus during...