office seem more like the post partisan grown up he always intended to be. joan, this is tough on palin. has she become the scarecrow on the right that scares people away from that terrain? >> you know, something like that. i hadn't thought of it quite that way, chris. >> i'm always looking for the metaphor. i was going to say dodo bird, but i thought that would be meaner. >> that would be mean. scarecrow is fine. yeah, i hope she's scaring other people away from this terrain. she's been very divisive. i think the three of us would be sitting here anyway talking about how fantastic a job he did at the tucson memorial. he was presidential, personal, talked about the individuals individually. he soared that night. the best of president obama, so he didn't require sarah palin's pettiness to look good. however, he got it, and it's clearly helping him.