While Obama works to avoid a "surprise attack" from the right, Palin may have crafted such an attack, in plain sight.

Ever heard of Stephen Bannon? Me neither. But he has been working "behind the scenes" to craft a two hour pro-Palin movie that will be released next month in Iowa. Bannon put up the one million dollar cost and from all reports, it reports, it is a very well done presentation.

Scott Conroy, at RealClearPolitics, tells us "Bannon originally titled his film "Take a Stand," which was the campaign slogan for Palin's 2006 gubernatorial run when she defeated incumbent Republican Frank Murkowski in the primary before cruising in the general election to become Alaska's youngest -- and first female -- chief executive. But in order to give it a more triumphant punch, the filmmaker changed the title to "The Undefeated."

Bannon acquired the audio rights to Palin's 2009 bestseller, "Going Rogue," and the former vice-presidential nominee's voice guides the film through the various stages of her career in Alaska.

Although Palin is not interviewed directly, the film features on-camera interviews and commentaries from 10 Alaskans who played different roles in her political rise, as well as six Lower 48 denizens who defend her in more visceral terms, including prominent conservative firebrands Mark Levin, Andrew Breitbart and Tammy Bruce.

Divided into three acts, the film makes the case that despite the now cliched label, Palin was indeed a maverick who confronted the powerful forces lined up against her to achieve wide-ranging success in a short period of time. The second part of the film's message is just as clear, if more subjective: that Sarah Palin is the only conservative leader who can both build on the legacy of the Reagan Revolution and bring the ideals of the tea party movement to the Oval Office.

Rife with religious metaphor and unmistakable allusions to Palin as a Joan of Arc-like figure, "The Undefeated" echoes Palin's "Going Rogue" in its tidy division of the world between the heroes who are on her side and the villains who seek to thwart her at every turn.

To convey Bannon's view of the pathology behind Palin-hatred, the film begins with a fast-paced sequence of clips showing some of the prominent celebrities who have used sexist, derogatory and generally vicious language to describe her.

Rosie O'Donnell, Matt Damon, Bill Maher, David Letterman, and Howard Stern all have brief cameos before comedian Louis C.K. goes off on a particularly ugly anti-Palin riff.

"I hate her more than anybody," C.K. says at the end of his tirade, the rest of which is unfit to print here.

Bannon intends to release two versions of the film. An unrated edition will contain some obscene anti-Palin language and imagery, while the other is targeted to a general audience and will seek a PG-13 rating from the Motion Picture Association of America. . . . end of quote.

If you know anything about the making of a "champion," especially when that champion is a considered "underdog," you know that the longer the "underdog" is allowed to play the game in a meaningful way, the more threatening he/she becomes to the Established Champ. Take football, for example. Florida State plays Fresno State and by the middle of the fourth quarter, the unlikely Fresno Bulldogs are [still] within 2 points of the national champions.

What is going on in the mind of the Florida State coach? Well, I guarantee that he has told at least one assistant, "We should have blown these guys out, by now." And, sure enough, with 5 seconds remaining, the upstart Bulldogs intercept a pass and run it back for a TD, winning the game. How many times have we seen this sort of scenario play itself out?

Every coach in the nation knows that if his/her team cannot put a weaker opponent "away" early in the contest, they are in "serious trouble" in terms of the "end game."

Palin, in her refusal to be "conventional" in her pursuit of the presidency, after nearly three years of exposure, should be nothing more than a glitch on a radar screen . . . but she is not only "still standing," her popularity has remained quite consistent.

In my opinion, where she stands in the polls, at this time, has little to do with the future of Sarah Palin. Most of us who follow this woman, are convinced as to her political instincts. Understand, that Palin is "standing on the 40 yard line with 4 minutes left in the game." If she loses, it will have little to do with the lies and thuggery of the Left. She is much more gifted than to allow that to be her legacy.

I have no idea how she can win, quite frankly. That being said, it is a good thing I am not her campaign manager . . . . and who is her campaign manager? She is !! And, that is precisely why she has more than a "chance" at becoming our 45th president.

She has a loyal base and is right on every issue that has been presented to her. Can she beat a fellow who has done little more than lie and cheat his way through the past two and half years and does not know if there are 57 states or 58, in the union? I think she can.