Sometimes Sarah Palin Plays Possum I was born a fight fan and as a little boy, my dad, a criminal lawyer would take me to the old Madison Square Garden on 50Th Street and Eighth Avenue near New York's Hells Kitchen back in the middle 1950's. We saw the old time fighters, Roy Rogers and Trigger and the  rodeo, Ringling Brothers Circus, all in this old barn like facility which featured an arcade as you walked in. There was a somewhat journeyman fighter named Archie Moore picking up fights as a heavyweight and Light heavyweight. Mr, Moore came north from some one horse Mississippi or maybe Alabama town and worked his way up through boxing ranks with no one even knowing how old he was because he was born on a kitchen table when sometimes births were not recorded. His long and respected career ended when he was knocked out in the early sixties by a rising prodigy named Cassius Clay. Archie Moore was the trickiest, feinting, bobbing and snake punching fighter most fight fans have ever seen. Often Times when Archie KO'd a boxer, the fans even at ringside never saw where the punch came from. He also "played possum" well, meaning he knew how to sucker in the naysayer, pretending to be hurt and knock his man out when the guy thought he was ahead.
As a freelance writer I covered Election 2008 beginning with the primaries and naturally evaluated Sarah Palin as she went along to charm and impress American voters as she continues to accomplish today. The reason I spent some time discussing Archie Moore, who not too many individuals would even remember in 2009 is to make an allusion to "playing possum" and Sarah Palin. Ms. Palin has been making the rounds of the talk shows to promote her book and continue as a valued spokesman for her political followers. Tonight I saw her on Fox News for extended interviews so that she actually was interacting in her own element. I think she was astoundingly presidential and brilliant which is not a way of my goading her into running in 2012. She was ultra sharp and on message and there were no gaffes. Sarah Palin impressed me in a big way tonight on Fox, she exuded strength and determination to mend our country. My intuitive disposition on what I perceive as Sarah Palin having a credible chance of  achieving the Presidency is that she can "play possum" with the antagonizing MSM for just enough exposure so that when she does rise to the higher level she is capable of, she will captivate and win.

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