Could this all backfire on the media?

In some respects, the attacks have already backfired. As they blatantly dismissed her, a mediocre speech at the convention would have been lauded. Instead they set the bar so low (not my words) her fantastic speech seemed to surpass Obama (she's good, not that good).

Remember Rathergate? That was when CBS reported that Bush took off a month of flight school while people were dying in Vietnam? The story may have had some merit, but the obviously bias story that actually had forged documents took the story completely off the table. When anyone in the media tried to bring it up they were derided and scorned.

We may see a similar thing here with Sarah Palin. The media is just trying too hard to lynch the woman. It could easily backfire and if it does it will make Obama's and Biden's job much harder. Middle America hates this stuff.

If she has a good showing against Biden, regardless of what he does, she wins and they lose. She will be parsed and pounded after, but the debate will be over. You've seen her speak, anyone taking bets that she gets spanked? Not me. Biden will probably do fine, but he could go on one of his patented personal stories (he most likely will be warned at gunpoint not to do that) and blow the whole thing. The left is close to making Palin a hero. Unless there is some significant skeleton in the closet she will help carry or put pressure on nearly every swing state.

Never been an election season like this one. And I thought I would be bored by now.