December 2, 2010 – St. Martin’s Press has purchased the rights to a book by U.S. Senate candidate from Delaware, Christine O’Donnell. The deal was negotiated by St. Martin’s publisher Matthew Shear and Dan Strone, CEO of Trident Media Group.
A Tea Party favorite, O’Donnell was the Republican Party nominee in Delaware’s 2010 U.S. Senate special election. With strong support from Sarah Palin and the Tea Party movement, she defeated nine-term U.S. Representative and former governor Michael Castle in the Republican primary, losing the general election to Democrat Chris Coons. In the process, she became the most covered candidate by the media in 2010.
O’Donnell’s book will take the reader behind the scenes of her race for the Senate, and embody O’Donnell’s identification with America’s frustrations and concerns with the current political climate. According to O’Donnell, “The 2010 midterm elections were just the beginning—the first rumblings of a revolution that has not fully erupted. I plan on making my book one of the revolution’s catalysts.”
St. Martin’s has tentatively scheduled an August 2011 publication date.
I’ll be disappointed if Fred Davis doesn’t do the trailer and “witch” doesn’t make it somewhere on the cover.
The best book trailer of the year, by the way, was for Laura Ingraham’s Obama Diaries:
I'm tired of O'Donnell, and I'm not even an Delaware voter. I'd consider moving there just to vote against her.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseEvery witch way but lose (the election)?
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseMaybe it has always been this way and I've never noticed, but I'm becoming increasingly disturbed by the trend in American politics to celebrate mediocrity. First, the country elects a president who offered little in the way of personal accomplishment, other than actually being elected to the offices he held.
And then, we have a woman who can point to even fewer personal achievements, (beyond being a perennial political loser) become the darling of the Tea Party movement.
How did all that happen, what does it say about our country, and when is it going to stop.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseI think it's pretty clear, based especially on this and on her previous actions, that O'Donnell is primarily interested in conservatism as a path to wealth and fame, not as a serious political philosophy or program.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseIt means there are a lot of gullible people out there. O'Donnell wasn't a conservative. Those who thought so - including Rush (whose support of her just demonstrates once again we are all human and flawed) - are no better judge of politicians than the conservatives who though Obama would govern as a centrist.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseYou can make the case for mediocrity, but how can you argue that she isn't a conservative? Perhaps you are confusing conservatism with libertarianism?
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