The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama’s ‘death panel’ so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their ‘level of productivity in society,’ whether they are worthy of health care. Such a system is downright evil.

The book contains excerpts from Palin's favorite speeches sermons and literature as well as portraits of people Palin admires including some Sarah Palin met in rural America on her first book tour. Senate seat but Murkowski ultimately appointed his daughter State Representative Lisa Murkowski as his successor in the Senate. " The phrase was criticized by many on both sides of the political aisle and Politifact named it the "Lie of the Year of 2009"
Palin will not be a speaker at the Republican National Convention in August 2012 in Tampa Florida.

She has since endorsed and campaigned for the Tea Party movement as well as several candidates in the 2010 midterm elections. Five million viewers tuned in for the first episode a record for TLC. She was elected to Wasilla City Council in 1992 and became mayor of Wasilla in 1996.