A lot has been made about recent polling showing that even Republicans think that she is unqualified to be President. But does this really doom her? Here's a reason to believe she may be able to overcome her skeptics and become the 2012 nominee.

ATTENTION: Blacks are 12% of the population but 80% of the NBA. From now on, all NBA teams must limit the number of blacks on their team to no more than one third the number of spots. That's right, black players will just have to be a tad better, a tad faster, a tad taller than their white counterparts to make the team.

Until the Red Sox finally won a World Series in 2004, growing up a Red Sox fan was an exercise in eternal optimism and disappointment. Every year I thought "THIS time it will be different", but just when the Red Sox seemed poised to take it home, they would snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.

If you haven't yet read The Political Brain by Drew Westen, you should. It's a book, based on well-established psychological principles, on how the Democrats consistently lose the messaging wars with Republicans. In a nutshell, the book argues that Dems constantly frame their arguments in dry, coldly rational policy language while Reps use evocative, emotion-laden terms designed to prime their audience's brains.