[carcraft]

I think Palin hit on the rope-a-dope idea when she mentioned she read CS Lewis for inspiration. Joe Behar and several other media pundits laughed at her and said “Oh she reads Children's books for inspiration?” To the credit of Barbara Walters, Walters corrected Joy. These people are so quick to assume that Palin is wrong and stupid it really makes it easy for Palin!

[justice14]

These people are so quick to assume that Palin is wrong and stupid it really makes it easy for Palin!

I'm not sure I would say it makes it easy. America (nowadays) isn't too smart. I mean, look who we elected this past Presidential election. A random guy from Illinois. Palin always having a negative perception isn't going to help her.

So Behar stating about it being a childerns book will just be believed by the idiot American. Even though CS Lewis has written some amazing masterpieces (Mere Christianity, Screwtape letters, Etc, Etc).

[miss marmelstein]

I wonder - is her strategy to find a small, significant fact that is not known to most Columbia journalism grads - play that up and stand back to watch the whole thing blow up in their faces? Maybe that is what rope-a-dope means; I never understood what that meant.

She definitely has a mischievious streak; the look on her face on Fox Sunday when she denied upstaging Mitt Romney was priceless.