Palin’s image comes down to her first two bad interviews with Gibson and Couric, and the gilded-lily rollout. To the pros, and to many people, her performance was unconscionable. She was defined by those two interviews, and the puffed up resume. First impressions. The McCain campaign screwed up royally for filling her head with some 300 talking points.
Now that she’s hit her stride, she knows how badly they screwed up her image, and she’s casting the stupid pros aside. She has great political instincts. She’ll recover, but the stupid meme will never go away for many. Make no mistake, the pros did screw up, because they simply never adjusted for the dynamics of this campaign. They operated the same-old same-old way. Conventional wisdom in an unconventional year.
