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“Two words - Jealous b!tch!”

You talking about Nicole Wallace, Cincinatus’ Wife or both?

This already has been posted, but the Palin haters want to give it legs.

Nicole Wallace was responsible for the $150k wardrobe, the Katie Couric interview and muzzling Palin.

Let's not be too harsh about Nicole Wallace. She's certainly right about one thing — Sarah Palin will rise or fall on her own merits. If she is, as Wallace implies, too stupid to be an effective national leader that will be apparent on the campaign trail. So far there is no publicly available evidence that tends to support Ms. Wallace's opinion of Governor Palin and Wallace doesn't cite any. Like most Palin critics she doesn't bother making an argument — she settles for a sneer.

Palin wasn't terribly poised in the infamous Couric interview and that's the principal strike against her. But she said nothing in that interview any fair person could describe as stupid. This strongly suggests she is way smarter than most prominent politicians, including the last four GOP presidential nominees none of whom ever managed to get through five minutes of hostile questioning without saying something idiotic. Everything Palin has said and done since leaving the shadow of the McCain campaign has shown a grasp issues and politics that sets her apart from everyone else in the presidential talent pool. Obama gave 50 plus speeches about health care. Palin coined the phrase “death panels.” Game, set and match Palin.

There's every reason to think Wallace is wrong about Palin, but if she's right the ABP (anybody but Palin) caucus has nothing to worry about. As Wallace suggests, Palin will implode and the GOP will nominate someone else. If Palin succeeds it will mean that Wallace and the ABP caucus were wrong from the start, probably as a result of irrational bias against beautiful, fertile and successful Christians who choose to bear and raise a child with Down’s syndrome. Somehow I doubt we'll ever hear an apology.