to handle. it helps her, but also hurts her. it protects the rest of the field. right now everybody wants to say what is the latest bad thing about perry or romney or bachmann? if palin gets if the race she like a lightning rod. she will get all the flak. and these other folks can advance relatively, unmolested. >> greta: is it fair to say she is unpredictable? we apply conventional wisdom when we make analysis of her, with her we just don't know. >> i think's true. we certainly don't know about her intentions. you are closer to her than almost anyone else. >> greta: i don't know. dick i have no idea. i've asked her every time she has been on the air, i have no clue. >> you are one of the only journalists who is always fair to her that gives you an inside track, because nobody else is. but, my basic point about her is that i think that had