I think it's the other way around. I think Palin knows full well that she's going to be attacked by The Corrupt Bass Turds on The Professional Left regardless of what she says so she calibrates what she says for maximum effect.
It's a more subtle version of Limbaugh's "Media Tweak of the Day."
I agree with you
Re: “The left plays Sarah like a fiddle.”
She understandably gets frustrated at times since there are so few on our side with the b*lls to aggressively fight back the left.
Dick Morris is still viewing politics through the eyes of a insider Republican. The majority in this country don’t give a hoot about beltway politics. Sarah Palin, thankfully, does not seem to care much about the nattering class in DC either!
Dick Morris better figure out what the non-politico Americans care about or he will never get his prognosticating right.