To criticize the White House or even the president is to criticize, not to commit heresy. The issue people should be considering is whether idolizing politics is heresy. ~David Kuo

Mr. Kuo is quite right in this post that the hysterical, venom-filled attacks (my description) on him from conservative Christians have served largely to prove his point that they are too deeply enmeshed in their loyalty to the All-Father of the GOP (to be clear, that is also my description of the party, not his).  The ranting by some about the “suspicious timing” of the book release in particular betrays their partisanship, their generally paranoid outlook on life and their ignorance about the book business.  You have to have almost Abe Foxman-like delusions of grandeur to think that everything that happens is aimed at the defeat and humiliation of you and yours.   

Of course the publisher (Free Press, a division of Simon & Schuster) released it before the election.  Can you imagine how much money they would lose if they released it after the election?  Who would be interested?  Where would they get the free publicity they are now getting?  The publisher may now make a profit, assuming that enough of the people exercised by the claims in the book actually buy the book, while they might well have had to choke on the costs of production had they released the very same book around Thanksgiving or later.  This is the kind of book that people interested in politics and elections buy, so you release it when they demand will be at its peak, the same way that you bring out your snazziest products (be they toys, movies, DVDs, etc.) just in time for Christmas.  For people who are so desperately loyal to the party of the “moneyed interest” as some of Kuo’s attackers are, some of these folks don’t seem to understand even the basic principles of marketing.