Why am I not surprised by this story about Mitt Romeny's debut...

…on the NYT best seller list?

When­ever the NY Times places a “dag­ger” sym­bol next to a book, it sig­ni­fies that “some book­stores report[ed] receiv­ing bulk orders” for the book.

The NY Times placed not just one, but two, dag­gers next to Romney’s book. You can draw your own con­clu­sion as to who it was that pur­chased Gov­er­nor Romney’s book in bulk.

By con­trast, the NY Times failed to place the “dag­ger” sym­bol next to Gov­er­nor Palin’s book in any of the weeks she held the top posi­tion on the NY Times best-​seller list among non-​fiction hard­cover books. Despite the left’s unsub­stan­ti­ated the­o­ries, book­stores did not report to the NY Times that they received bulk orders for Going Rogue. See week 1, week 2, week 3, week 4, week 5, and week 6. As you can see, in none of these weeks is there a dag­ger sym­bol next to her book

I have NEVER heard any­one speak of Mitt Rom­ney with any­thing resem­bling excite­ment and I live in Massachusetts.

BTW it is worth not­ing that Sarah Palin’s book is STILL on the list (at 34) after 17 weeks.

I take excep­tion to Marc Armbinder’s com­par­i­son of Rom­ney to Roger Maris. It is unfair to Maris who actu­ally was able to hit his 61 under nor­mal game con­di­tions and won 3 World Series. Maybe it would be fairer to com­pare it to McG­wire or Barry Bonds instead.

This is ama­teur night stuff, and this guy wants to be pres­i­dent? The blow­back on this is going to be much worse that the pos­i­tive press he got when the debut first was reported. Bad form Gov­er­nor, bad form.

Any­one care to make book on how long it takes Rom­ney to fall off?

Update: It is worth not­ing that Sarah Palin’s book is still ranked in the top 150, 143 at Ama­zon as of this morn­ing, while Mitt’s newly released book is at 43, only 100 spots ahead.