Posted on 03/12/2010 5:22:21 PM PST by curth
Romney fans, please don't shoot the messenger.
Mitt Romney's book has debuted at #1 atop the NY Times best-seller list among non-fiction hardcover books. However, the NY Times also provides some additional information that may explain how Romney's book hit the #1 spot.
Whenever the NY Times places a "dagger" symbol next to a book, it signifies that "some bookstores report[ed] receiving bulk orders" for the book.
The NY Times placed not just one, but two, daggers next to Romney's book. You can draw your own conclusion as to who it was that purchased Governor Romney's book in bulk.
By contrast, the NY Times failed to place the "dagger" symbol next to Governor Palin's book in any of the weeks she held the top position on the NY Times best-seller list among non-fiction hardcover books. Despite the left's unsubstantiated theories, bookstores did not report to the NY Times that they received bulk orders for Going Rogue. See week 1, week 2, week 3, week 4, week 5, and week 6. As you can see, in none of these weeks is there a dagger symbol next to her book.
Once again, I'm just reporting what I found from the NY Times. Don't shoot the messenger.
Not many of us can, as childish and silly as they are on this thread, this is actually about as good as they can perform.
I’ve heard of authors (or their publishers) doing that.
So...what's your take on Mitt Romney?
Is he worthy of your vote?
Will you vote for him in the primary...if he's a candidate?
And if you will vote for him...why?
That’s just it. One can easily argue against Mitt’s conservative credentials, given his run in Mass, that’s a different issue, one we read about here every day, multiple times. So let that be the argument in it’s own right. Not the perceived dogpile on the book sale issue that many conservative authors with similar NYT daggers also get, Ann Coulter for one.
As to elections, it depends on who he is running against, and how horrible the economy is if and when he runs. And speaking of Ann Coulter, she and Michael Reagan both supported Mitt in the primary, so if I do end up doing that again, I would be in good company, afaic. There are a lot of unknowns right now, so time will tell.
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