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We all saw the gap between her experience (not values, not ability, but raw experience dealing with evil) and the level necessary to deal with our anti-American media. In her first few national interviews, she looked to me like someone caught completely off guard, like she expected a friendly conversation that would be edited in a professional manner to tell the true story of who she was and what she believed instead of what she encountered (an ambush designed to elicit answers that could be edited for the specific purpose of making her look bad). Considering the unexpected nature of those first few sets of questions, I didn’t think she did a terrible job - certainly not great, but not terrible. When she and her children were attacked with an insane level of venom, she dealt with it remarkably well and stood up to the hateful liberals. I liked that, but it gave them a chance to call her “divisive”.

You are basing that opinion on interviews that were heavily edited in order to make her look as bad as possible.

Furthermore, if the last two years of her continually getting out in front of the fight and not letting any lie or attempt to twist the truth go without a response is not proof to you of how "Palin has a detailed plan for the evolution of her public image" then nothing will prove it to you.

You come across like a "concern" troll.

You are basing that opinion on interviews that were heavily edited in order to make her look as bad as possible. Furthermore, if the last two years of her continually getting out in front of the fight and not letting any lie or attempt to twist the truth go without a response is not proof to you of how "Palin has a detailed plan for the evolution of her public image" then nothing will prove it to you. You come across like a "concern" troll.

No, my point was that the interviews were intended to be heavily edited. She spotted that in the interviews and became very cautious in her responses, which didn't look as bad as if she had never spotted that the interviews were intended to be hostile. I know it wasn't a fair interview, but it helped the far left media to tell the story they had written before they even knew the name of the nominee. Palin is already my top choice for the nomination by a huge margin - if she wants to run. My "concern" is whether she has a plan to work around the mainstream media and get her message to mindless MSNBC viewers and other swing voters, not to the true far left believers but to the viewers who watch because they like the clothes or the hair of the MSNBC reporters.

As for whether Palin has a detailed plan for the evolution of her public image, that is an entirely different question from whether she has a detailed plan to advocate for the positions that match her deeply held values. As a Tea Party leader, she just needs to get the base motivated and frame the message clearly, which she has done beautifully, better than any conservative since January 20, 1989. As a candidate for President, she needs to build her image among swing voters to such a level that she is immune to the massive media attack that will follow her announcement of her campaign for the White House.