So instead, they are having to guess, and blow up all roads out of town, just in case.
I just couldn't resist extending your metaphor. :-)
very observant. This is why she will run and will be the nominee IMHO. All this ridiculously pitched level of attack is going to end up furnishing her with a high level of immunity to last minute attacks derailing her campaign.
The media reaction reminds me of the scene at the end of Terminator 2 where the machine is dropped into the vat of molten steel. The State Run Media are wigging out uncontrollably because Sarah Palin has just checkmated them. The frivolous ethics complaint has been the SRM main attack line. Now its gone.
What kills me is that the folks of FR can’t see this and have a tremendous level of respect and joy for what a skilled political move this is, and that she is pulling it off, compared to the dunces we have in Washington with their heads stuck in their arse or the nearest tanning bed.