Don't Under Estimate Sarah Palin

The Woman is Sharp. She is playing her cards right so far. By limiting challenging political interviews she has kept herself out of the the negative. The left media would love to have some meat to chew but for now she's not giving it to them. She is staying away from hostile political reporters (no Katy Coric for now) and that's smart. They would love to put her on the defensive, she knows it so why bother with them right now. She hasn't formally announced that she is running for any office and until she does she is building political allies with those through the Tea Party she's helped to get elected.

Instead she's giving them Bristol and dancing, Fox TV, and reality TV on'homey Alaska.' So far it's all good. Her soft interviews and comments through Fox gives her positive exposure and favorable political hay with the political junkies.

In the meantime, as a contributor to Fox and her Alaska reality show, she has the opportunity to slip in her core political values and opinions unchallenged. Pretty smart. Her public office political experience and her differing views versus Obama's aren't to be dismissed to lightly. There is some clever calculation in the mix. Any future candidate would love to have her kind of paid platform to speak from. Can she continue to have this kind of positive exposure for much longer? I think she will find a way to continue to have and effective platform.

Substance, does she have substance? The past two years have shown that she is the only viable political possible candidate that have been effective in the Republican Party. Who else has raised the money she has, and who else has been able to get Republicans elected like she has? Substance equals effectiveness and she has been as effective as Romney, Gingrich, andHuckabee with possibly more political experience, Romney is charming and smart and from the east but old line Republican and a health care failure. Gingrich is a man with statesmanship and ideas but a lot of baggage. Huckabee is not taken seriously as a challenger to anyone, especially Obama. Palin is a clear choice candidate, the opposite of Obama and the left. You can feel the substance of the lady. She means what she says, will follow through and not back down. Sound like anyone in the past you know that was so belittled by established Washington insiders as a potential president? Truman and Reagan come to mind.

She will buck lots of negative labeling and derisive editorials from inside and outside her party but she seems to have the ability to let the negative roll off her shoulders. She is the brightest dark horse in the running.