Well, Rig, your average is--slowly--improving.

"frivolous"---dead wrong.   She abused her power as governor for personal reasons.   As was found even by some Republicans.

But I agree the President should not be responding to her directly.   Came close to saying that myself in my last post.   It raises her profile and makes her even more obviously the spokesman of the Republicans.

And any Mudcatter who doesn't think her sarcasm about Obama's community organizing being useful in nuclear negotiations has no idea how well that played in certain quarters--the ones she wants to impress now.

She is dangerous--because she's ambitious, and is doing--well-- exactly what needs to be done to realize those ambitions.   And it's time for Mudcatters to acknowledge this.