“My dad told me that you've got to strike while the iron is hot,” Reverend Alvin Love recalls saying, and Obama replied, “The iron can't get any hotter."
Back when Hillary Clinton was The Next In Line, aka The Inevitible One, there was one man who read the terrain correctly, and realized that he could beat The Unbeatable.
Fellas, there's nothing in Palin's background like the Reverend Wright. Everyone who took one look at Barack Obama and laughed him off as a political lightweight with crippling negatives was wrong. Obama ignored the establishment in the media and in the Democratic party, who were all nice but largely dismissive of him early on.
Palin's the only politician we have right now with the same level of natural talent and connection to the average voter that Obama has. If she's mobilizing now, it's because she sees a path to victory, and is taking it. We can laugh at her and dismiss her as flaky and unready, just as the Democrats initially dismissed Obama as an untested rookie. Or we can wait and see if she's actually up to something worth getting on board with.
She's either dumber than we thought, or a lot smarter than we are. Sometimes, vanity gets in the way of making that assessment clearly. It certainly did in our assessment of Obama.