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Sarah Palin’s new memoir, “Going Rogue,” is just out and already a bestseller. It’s in the bookstores today. She’s on Oprah. Her tour bus is hitting the road.

The book settles scores with McCain advisers the ex-Alaskan governor sees as having crimped her style on the vice-presidential campaign trail. Payback is the word. A little redemption, a little revenge. And a lot of stage-setting for whatever comes next.

Will she run for President in 2012? She’s not retreating, reports Sarah Palin. She’s reloading.

This hour, On Point: “Going Rogue” and the political future of Sarah Palin.

You can join the conversation. Tell us what you think — here on this page, on Twitter, and on Facebook.

-Tom Ashbrook

Guests:

Joining us today from Washington are:

Todd Purdum, national editor for Vanity Fair. His August article about Sarah Palin was headlined “It Came from Wasilla.”

Candy Crowley, senior political correspondent for CNN. She’s been reporting on the new Palin media blitz.

David Winston, GOP political consultant and president of The Winston Group. He served as director of planning for former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich. He currently consults for the House and Senate Republican leadership.

A specialist on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on Monday, March 2, 2009. The Dow Jones industrial average fell below 7,000 for the first time in more than 11 years. (AP)

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The world is barely enough to hold this week’s news. Trillions flying. Markets melting down. GM nodding to bankruptcy. Europe can’t unite. Darfur’s trouble deepens.

We’ve got Hillary Clinton in the Middle East. Rush Limbaugh in the middle of everything. Health reform talk in the White House, a homeowner bailout, and the president saying this may be time to buy stocks. It sure isn’t a market top.

Unemployment spikes again, over eight percent now. Retail sales show signs of life — at WalMart.

This hour, On Point: Our weekly news roundtable goes behind the headlines.

You can join the conversation. What’s your top story this week?

-Tom Ashbrook

Guests:

Joining us from New York is Diane Brady, senior editor at BusinessWeek magazine. She wrote earlier this week about AIG’s latest lifeline from the government.

From Washington, we’re joined by Matthew Continetti, associate editor at The Weekly Standard. His latest piece asks “Why are Republicans falling for the Obama White House’s trap?”

And from Hanover, N.H.,  is Jack Beatty, On Point news analyst and senior editor at The Atlantic.

Young conservatives Ross Douthat and Reihan Salam are the toast of Republican thought circles right now. But their call to Republican revival is also a broadside.

Bush-era crony capitalism and government neglect, they charge, have pushed the USA toward a Latin American model of rich and poor and nothing in between.

If the Grand Old Party wants a comeback, they argue, it’s going to have to do something serious for American workers. But something conservative.

This hour, On Point: “Grand New Party: How Republicans Can Win the Working Class” — they say — “and Save the American Dream.”

- Tom Ashbrook

Guests:

Ross Douthat and Reihan Salam, editors at The Atlantic Monthly and co-authors of “Grand New Party: How Republicans Can Win the Working Class and Save the American Dream.”

Robert Kuttner, co-founder and co-editor of The American Prospect, and co-founder of the Economic Policy Institute.