Sarah Palin issued a direct appeal to female independent voters Thursday, releasing a video montage about the conservative women she calls "Mama Grizzlies." 
 
 "All across this country, women are standing up and speaking out for common-sense solutions," Palin says in the nearly two-minute video she posted on her Facebook page and on YouTube. "These policies coming out of D.C. right now, this fundamental transformation of America -- a lot of women who are very concerned about their kids' futures say, 'We don't like this fundamental transformation, and we're going to do something about it.' " 
 
 The former Alaska governor and 2008 vice presidential candidate says the past 18 months have inspired "a mom awakening . . . where women are rising up and saying, 'No, we've had enough already.' Because moms kinda just know when something's wrong." 
 
 Palin's is the only voice in the video, which is a montage of her political appearances since her time as running mate for Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and includes panoramic shots of large, friendly crowds. In the video, Palin likens "common-sense conservative women" to the "mama grizzly bears [in Alaska] that rise up on their hind legs when somebody's coming to attack their cubs, to do something adverse toward their cubs." 
 
 "You thought pit bulls were tough," Palin says. "Well, you don't mess with the mama grizzlies. . . . Look out, Washington, because there's a whole stampede of pink elephants crossing the line and the ETA, stampeding through, is November 2, 2010." 
 
 The video ends with Palin concluding: "Lotta women, comin' together." 
 
 Republican strategists are already praising the video. For a political figure used to an off-the-cuff style, Palin's video has a professional and polished feel that could strengthen and broaden her emotional appeal among female voters. One prominent GOP media consultant described the video as "brilliant," adding: "I wish I'd done it." ||||| The former Republican vice-presidential contender was sharing a boat with her husband, Todd, their nine-year-old daughter, Piper, and friends in Wolverine Creek when the bears emerged from the trees. 
 
 The two mothers exchanged glances and then the brown bear, which had paused on a rock, wandered off with her cubs leaving the Palins looking stunned. 
 
 With a photographer conveniently to hand, the encounter may not have been quite the surprise that it would appear. 
 
 Mrs Palin recently released a political video titled Mama Grizzlies, and Wolverine Creek is a popular destination for bear watchers where the curious animals often come within a few feet of anglers' boats. 
 
 The former Alaska governor is a keen hunter and angler who keeps a grizzly bear hide, shot by her father, draped over her sofa in her office. 
 
 Her latest campaign-style video, released earlier this month on the internet, warned Washington to watch out for angry "mama grizzlies" who are ready to "get our country back on the right track". 
 
 Speaking in the video, Mrs Palin said: "There in Alaska, I always think about the mama grizzly bears that rise up on their hind legs when somebody's coming to attack our cubs you thought pit bulls were tough, well, you don't want to mess with the mama grizzlies".
– First moose hunting, now a bear stare down. That's what happened to Sarah Palin when a brown bear and her two cubs crashed a quiet family salmon fishing expedition in Alaska. The mothers stared at one another before the bear blinked, and moved off, reports the Telegraph. The bear apparently knows a mama grizzly when she sees one—at least the political kind Palin extols in her new video. Or maybe the bear heard about the dead grizzly Palin likes to sit on. The hide of a grizzly shot by Palin's pop covers the couch in the former governor's Anchorage office. Youch. That's one grizzly who won't be voting Tea Party.