Palin's brilliance lies in how she can antagonize progressives while doing it with a smile and a wink. They go absolutely nuts and end up looking psychotic and absolutely DESPERATE to make her look bad.
I mean, before that clown Gibbs did his comedy routine, there were at LEAST 3 people who tried the same thing, including that MSNBC hag Mitchell. I saw Scarborough do an entire segment on (I kid you not) Chris Wallace's eye movement during a Palin interview. I mean, these people look so incredibly desperate to make her look bad that it's hilarious. Normally, these people are very self-disciplined, but she makes them look like absolute fools. It's extremely amusing.
On a sidenote, those marketers that are interested in neuro-linguistic programming, etc would probably be interested to learn that apparently
Obama's speeches are riddled with hypnosis command techniques. It's smart because it brainwashes all you retards, but it also highlights one of the prime reasons he's such a soulless communist scumbag.