I like to play and watch tennis.  Every once in awhile you see a match that is very close but at some point one of the players either begins to cramp or gets a minor injury.  The initial reaction of the healthy player is always a blood in the water opertunity that can't be missed. While you would think this would spell doom for the hampered player often times it ends up working to their advantage.  What happens most often is the healthy player starts to try to change their game to best take advantage of the injury by making the injured player move more and playing safe, thinking that it will quicken their demise.  What usually happens however is the healthy player will start to over think the points and play tenative passing up oppertunities that they otherwise would have taken advantage of and giving their opponent easy shots.  The net effect is the injured player often ends up winning a match that earlier looked hopeless

When John McCain picked Sarah Palin I thought to myself that it was blood in the water and that Barack should go after her hard.  Now that I've had a chance to step back a little I think that Barack would be best served to stick with the stragety that he's been using.  Let America judge weather or not Sarah Palin was a good choice.  I think the pick speaks for itself.  Give her enough rope and sooner or later she will hang herself.  Don't get me wrong if McCain starts in on the Barack's not experienced enough he has to push back by saying "Look who McCain thinks is experienced enough ..." but attacking her out of the gate is more likely to back fire on him.