Peter Ferrara finds brilliance in 'Going Rogue'

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In his Political Hay column at The American Spectator, Peter Ferrara waxes rhapsodic about Going Rogue:

I am angry. I am angry that no one, not even conservatives, told me what a brilliant book this is, before I read it for myself. Brilliant in a quintessentially Sarah Palin way, showing through doing and being her genuine self, rather than through academic argument, exactly the way to communicate to the every day person.

I don't know that she actually planned it this way. But what is so brilliant about the book is that she just tells her fascinating and endearing personal life story, from childhood to 2009, in great personal and reflective detail. In the process, you come to know exactly who she is, exactly what she believes, and why, while she convincingly, thoroughly, politely eviscerates her critics, from left to right.

After reading the book, the word that will stick in your mind is genuine, which is jarring in a modern, hip, culture, that Rush Limbaugh is accurately calling "the universe of lies." Sarah Palin in this book transparently speaks from the heart, and tells us who she is, more than willing to let the chips fall where they may. And where they fall is to provide a firm foundation for a generation of national political leadership.

Ferrara, who served in the White House Office of Policy Development under President Reagan, states that Sarah Palin "is through and through a female Reagan" and says he found more wisdom in this book than he did at Harvard College and Harvard Law School. He goes on to predict that she will become president in 2021, after having first served as Secretary of Energy and perhaps also in the U.S. Senate.

Read the full Ferrara column at The American Spectator.

- JP