Palin aides relish Beltway skepticism about her candidacy

“Look at what’s happened over the past two years, and you tell me that we don’t have a more effective strategy than our peers,” Palin aide Michael Goldfarb told RealClearPolitics. “Who’s been able to get their message out more effectively? Who’s had greater influence? And you tell me why we should play by the same rules that the press wants everybody to play by. It doesn’t make any sense.”…

“She hasn’t changed her statement that ‘if the door is open, I’ll go through it’; she hasn’t changed in any way what she’s said all along.” Rebecca Mansour, a close Palin aide told RealClearPolitics. “None of them really understand her or get her in a lot of ways. They underestimate her, which makes me laugh. They don’t really understand how she thinks. She always keeps them guessing because they just don’t get it.”…

“If she was out there making the case for bigger government and more welfare and universal health care in the same tone and in the same vein, she would be a hero of the New York Times editorial board,” Michael Goldfarb said. “They don’t like what she’s saying. It’s not how she says it or the basis of why she says it. They don’t agree with her, and they see her as threatening, so what you get is this, ‘She’s not up to the job,’ and there are people in the Republican Party who will say that, too, because people have different preferences as far as leaders in the party and have different agendas. But out there in the real world, Republicans respect Sarah Palin and they listen to what she says, and she has a real impact. And that’s why she was the most coveted endorsement among Republicans in the last election.”