[dirtboy]

After Tucson, Ariz., shootings, Sarah Palin's unfavorable rating in the CNN poll rose from 49 percent before the midterm elections to 56 percent now.

Movement within the margin of error, yet Morris bases his entire column upon it.

[Kaslin]

we all know how CNN polls. She’s most likely favored by 56%

[Arm_Bears]

That Morris attaches significance to anything done by CNN, or other MSM outlets, immediately ends the discussion.

[Prospero]

Dick Morris wants to be Sarah Palin's advisor so bad, he can barely conceal it. He's a keen political observer, there's no doubt about it, but like most of those in the thin gene pool of the Consultant Class, his pay check is based on two things 1. Reputation (based on the all-too-human denial of chaos and/or God Almighty) and 2. Fear, on the part of politicians, the sort of thing that makes geniuses of court astrologers and crazy heretical priests like Rasputin. Politicians fear being perceived as merely human, and they really, really HATE asking for money.

Reputation is every thing for this compulsive individual though, and who doesn't enjoy listening to what he has to say?

He's under a lot of pressure to get it right, and this accounts for his grasp of the obvious.

I don't buy his theory of his about Sarah Palin's video response. I would have advised her to say less, in a less guarded venue, but (as much as I hate the idea) I think the pile-on "vitriol" strategy did succeed in pushing her negatives six points. So what? It just fired up and hardened briefly a soft fashionable sentiment. You would think she already had the nomination and it was only a week out from Election Day.

Morris needs to grasp the strategy and understand it for the rehearsal that it was, eventually to be used against whomever carries the "R" label in 2012.