Former Obama campaign manager David Plouffe is challenging his fans and political readers to a literary duel with “our old friend Sarah Palin.”
In a new Web video, Plouffe announces a one-day-only attempt for his book on the 2008 campaign to out-sell Palin’s “Going Rogue,” which, he notes, has sold over a million copies.
“It’s selling about like a distortions and mistruths would at a tea party rally,” Plouffe says in campaign-style Web video you can watch after the jump.
“We thought it might be fun, a fun little exercise, on one day to see if we can use some of our old organizing techniques and spread the world to see if we might be able to beat her for just one day,” Plouffe said. The challenge is for Tuesday at noon.
As we have reported, Plouffe found Palin to be a blockbuster fundraiser for the campaign.
“Are you game to face off with Palin one more time and win?” Plouffe asks on the book’s Facebook page promoting the Tuesday challenge.
Plouffe says in the video if people weren’t planning to buy it, they shouldn’t feel pressured, but adds that it could be a good holiday gift for people who were planning on reading it.
He said he and his family will donate $1 from each book sold in Tuesday’s challenge to childhood and adult literacy programs, “so we can do some good in the process.”
Plouffe said Palin’s book espouses “a vision that was completely rejected on Nov. 4, 2008 by the American people and I think would take us in the complete wrong direction,” but admitted he thinks Palin helps the Democratic party.
“So the truth is I hope her book tour goes on for a long time,” he said. “Having her out there and her message as kind of the opposing viewpoint to what the president is trying to do could not be more helpful.”
If you haven’t seen our Top 10 Things You Didn’t Know Before Reading ‘Audacity to Win” piece, read it here.
