[taildragger]

She is a hockey Mom...

She is pullin a reverse Herb Brooks

Herb planted the seed in the heads of the 1980 team that the Russian are slippin, they can be beat, slow but sure he planted positive self talk that they can do it, and they did...

She is planting the seed within the heads of the Obamas, I am coming for you ( politically ), you are not with the American people, and a thousand others messages directed right at them. It is a negative physc-op and you know it eats at them.

I keep saying she is not a Mama Grizzly, she is a Cougar, she is stalking her Political Prey....

[Steve_Seattle]

"It is a negative physc-op and you know it eats at them."

One of the best ways to overcome an opponent is to get in their head. It creates unforced errors. In this context, it will make Palin's opponents act in a shallow and peevish and arrogant manner, and the public will pick up on that.

Palin's critics are still stuck in the images of 2008. Palin has moved beyond that, and is hiring experts to brief her on various political issues where she previously wasn't strong. While she's growing and learning, her opponents are still mocking, and in 2011 and 2012 they will try to attack the 2008 Palin, but she won't exist anymore. The new Palin will be able to talk policy - any policy - with the best of them.

People confuse lack of knowledge with stupidity. Palin may have lacked some foreign policy gravitas in 2008, but that doesn't mean she was or is stupid. While in office as mayor and governor, she had a thorough grasp of issues relevant to those positions. Now, she's like a football coach at half-time, correcting the mistakes of the first half, while her opponents are gloating in the locker room. Don't bet against her in the second half.