Especially if it is proven to be intentional.
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I like Palin. I also believe that Obama is a fraud and a liar when it comes to telling us about his past and that he will lose come election day Nov. 2012.
But I believe that the book did severe damage to Palin's hope to run for President, because the ugly revelations in the book will help persuade Palin that she CANNOT run for President if she hopes to protect her family from savage criticism and ridicule.
1.Whatever ugly things people say about the book and the author, McGuinnis, Palin will never sue the author for defamation, because at the trial, the author will parade a list of witnesses who will back up much of the terrible things the author wrote in his book about Palin and her family.
2. One of the damaging details in the book is the claim that Palin had an affair with a professional basketball player. If Palin ever went to court and the basketball player testified that he did indeed have a one night stand with Palin and Palin was called to testify about the affair, Palin's dream of running for President would be over.
3. So, again, sad to say, I don't believe that Palin would ever dare sue the author in court for defamation, because she knows that a lot of details in the book are true, and such a trial would do terrible damage to her family.
4. In addition, if Palin took the author to court and lost, Palin knows that such a loss would do terrible damage to her reputation and credibility, and she knows that if she loses her credibility , she loses any chance to be elected President.
5. The author: He wrote a great book "Fatal Vision". He did lose a lawsuit to Jeffrey MacDonald, but Jeffrey MacDonald had trouble disapproving many of the details in the book, especially when MacDonald's own father-in-law provided the author with many of the details in the book and when MacDonald admitted that he allowed the author free access to follow him and his defense team around during the trial, a trial that showed that MacDonald did indeed murder his wife and two beautiful young girls.
6. So, as much as I like Palin, I believe that she won't run for President or sue the author for defamation, because she would not want to have her family members testify in court, which would cause terrible damage emotionally to those family members, especially after they were cross-examined by the author's lawyers.
I disagree a bit. I think Palin should run for president, and fight the smears to the very last breath. Otherwise, evil will triumph. And if the latter occurs, it just sets up an all-new template in which any potential GOP nominee is similarly targeted. The same scum will go after Rick Perry, digging up some seedy fags in Austin who’ll (falsely) make accusations towards him, and the media will make hay of all of it. There will be no stopping this kind of malicious evil.
If Palin does just give up, and bow out (understandable, of course, considering family), and vast populations of people wind up believing these grotesque lies, then again, evil will truly triumph, and I personally will see the country as rather unsalvageable. Or more pointedly, not even worth salvaging. I see the whole thing as a much bigger battle, going well beyond Palin and politics.