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My comment: “You see. Sarah Palin does not need an adviser.”

Your reply: “My belief is that everyone benefits from advice. Perhaps Palin is that unique one who doesn’t.”

Sorry. You can’t tweak my comment and move on. I said Palin did not NEED an adviser. She might benefit from advice, but that would depend on what the advice was, who gave it and how it was given. Dick Morris is not giving advice to help her. He is trying to build his own creds. If he really wanted to give her advice, he would do so privately,as I am sure many do. ANd if the advice made sense, I am quite sure she would follow it.

But a political adviser? Someone who tells her what to say, how to say and when to say it, as Morris is doing? No way. Her instincts are far, far better than any of them. She does not NEED them. She might listen to them, might even adopt a suggestion here and there.

One only BENEFITS from advice if it is GOOD advice. However, her record so far suggests that her own instincts and judgment (whether her decision to resign and to go national; to blow the whistle on the death panels; to engage in contested primaries to increase conservative numbers) was the right strategy in spite of the fact that the advice from the “experts” would have been contra on every single one of these issues.

“Perhaps Palin is that unique one who doesn’t”

Yes. She does not NEED advice. Reagan was always at his best when he trusted his own instincts. If you doubt that, and are really interested in how over-rated advisers are, check out Rendezvous with Destiny by Craig Shirley or the portion of Going Rogue that deals with the 2008 campaign and how Palin was mis-advised by the so-called experts.

If you can name an adviser whose judgment is superior to Palin’s, based upon her performance during the last two years (in the face of a ferocious onslaught), I am all ears. There ain’t one.