Sarah Palin read wrote a book. Did you know that? Well, obviously, she didn’t actually write it herself. But as Sullivan notes, it’s already being praised on the right (even though it’s not out yet) by the likes of John Fund in the WSJ not only as a potential best-seller - which it will surely be - but even more than that:

He reveals the contours of the next Republican presidential campaign, in which Palin will lead a cohort of Beck and Limbaugh dittoheads on a platform of a holy war in the Middle East, the restitution of torture as a core American value, and tax cuts in the face of massive and mounting debt. Here’s what we will face in the future:

Ms. Palin was booked on grueling interviews with hostile reporters while talk-show hosts such as Glenn Beck couldn’t even get through to her aides. Mr. Beck tells me he was stunned when he picked up the phone one day just before the election to discover Sarah Palin was on the other end of the line. “She explained that she had been blocked from reaching her audience, so she was now ‘going rogue’ and booking her own interviews,” Mr. Beck told me. “I was thrilled she had burst out of the cage they’d built for her and we were finally talking.”

Translation: we couldn’t get enough infomercials on Fox, but next time we will. The days of open press conferences will be over as Palin narow-casts only to the base. At the same time, you see the right urging a coup, while all but beating a drum for the assassination of the president, an event that would tip this country into a near civil war. In this climate, establishment conservatism for the most part is fanning the flames and pouring on the gasoline.

I always thought it would get worse before it gets better. But I never thought it would get this poisonous this soon.

re: coup - you saw the NewsMax article, I assume - it’s since been taken down.

Here’s what’s going to happen.

Palin is going to be the GOP presidential candidate in 2012. There’s no other contender; she’s so beloved by the base, and the base has completely captured the party. Her campaign will be based on everything Sullivan says - torture as a moral achievement, “real America,” more war coupled with tax cuts, the whole bit.

She will be a cause celebre in Fox News America. They will be energized beyond belief.

And she could win - if the economy continues to falter between now and then.

But I see that as an extremely remote possibility. Far more likely - she loses. Not only that; she is crushed.

And it will be the end of the conservative movement.

Consider for just a moment, how OUTRAGED!!! they will be. I mean, it will dwarf anything we have seen. But - one way or another, whether she would win or she would lose - the result would be definitive. The argument would be settled. And I think we need that. So bring it on.