The timing couldn’t be sweeter for the makers of “Fire From the Heartland: The Reawakening of the Conservative Woman.” 
 
 Just days after the Tea Party favorite Christine O’Donnell pulled off a stunning upset against GOP establishment pick Mike Castle, Citizens United will premiere a documentary in Washington next week that they say is the first “to tell the story of the awakening of a new generation of women that are at the forefront of today's reborn conservative movement.” 
 
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 The film capitalizes on what political observers and activists have already noted of this election cycle—the riders on this year's political storm are women, a sagebrush set well-positioned to help the GOP reclaim the congress. 
 
 Following in the bootsteps of history-making 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin — an Alaskan with an affinity for "Mama Grizzlies" – a number of women candidates, including O’Donnell, Nevada’s Sharron Angle, and South Carolina’s Nikki Haley, are reshaping and reenergizing the face of the GOP. 
 
 While women are filling in on the top of the party ticket, the documentary explores the flip side of the equation — looking at the Tea Party’s grassroots activists, like Jenny Beth Martin, and starring the more familiar female stars of the conservative movement, including Rep. Michele Bachmann, Ann Coulter and Phyllis Schlafly. 
 
 “I’m usually very loath to engage in identity politics,” says conservative commentator S.E. Cupp, who appears in the film. “I don’t know if it's that mama grizzly instinct being awakened, if women are feeling threatened, or if it’s because women are just feeling neglected or because they’re feeling empowered but you can’t deny that there’s something happening today.” 
 
 The trailer for the film, which was directed by “Generation Zero” director Steven K. Bannon, begins with Bachmann asking Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner a question during the financial crisis, and crescendos with quotes from Coulter and Palin. Lady Gaga, the women of “Sex and the City” and a mama grizzly also make an appearance. ||||| Susan B. Anthony List President Marjorie Dannenfelser responded Tuesday, saying, "EMILY's List is running scared -- and it shows. Clearly, in this 'Year of the Pro-Life Woman,' which Sarah Palin helped make possible, women have found their political voices. Pro-life 'Mama Grizzlies' represent the majority of women across the country." 
 
 She added, "We are looking for women leaders who affirm the best in women -- who seek to include rather than exclude the rest of humanity as we find our fulfillment. EMILY's List is busy perpetuating what it purports to abhor: using women candidates with whom they disagree as punching bags." 
 
 Sarah Palin has made "Mama Grizzlies" a campaign theme, but a Democratic women's group is growling back. EMILY's List, a national organization dedicated to electing pro-choice Democratic women to office, announced a new campaign, "Sarah Doesn't Speak for Me," on Monday. Its mission: To fight back against Palin's "radical agenda" and her endorsed candidates.In a press release, the group said: "Sarah Palin has predicted a rising tide of mothers and women voters will support her so-called 'Mama Grizzly' candidates. Today, we call upon women -- and men! -- to let their voices be heard and to reject Palin's reactionary candidates and backward-looking agenda. We're asking Democrats, Independents, and moderate Republicans who have no home -- to join us in our new campaign,."The group planned to announce more details of the campaign Tuesday in Washington, and launched a new website for the campaign."We wanted to respond to Sarah Palin and her candidates' assertions that they were speaking for all women with a community of women who are speaking for themselves," Jes McIntosh of EMILY's List told Politics Daily. "It's a place for them to connect and respond, meet their neighbors and tell what they want out of their government."Palin, one of the most polarizing figures in politics, has spent a large portion of this year traveling the country in support of female GOP candidates, or as she calls them " Mama Grizzlies ." Through her Sarah PAC, Palin has endorsed a host of female candidates including South Carolina gubernatorial candidate Nikki Haley and Susana Martinez in the New Mexico governor's race. Both won. Both are the first GOP women in their states to win their party's nomination.Palin has also had some losses in her endorsements, including Karen Handel, who lost Georgia's gubernatorial nomination earlier this month.In Tuesday's Wyoming primary, Palin endorsed Rita Meyer for governor. On her Facebook page , Palin wrote on July 29: "She may not have millions of dollars to campaign with, but she has enough volunteer human resources and is running her campaign the old fashion way -- grassroots and gritty! Voters know that Rita has a unique blend of steel magnolia and mama grizzly."In July, Sarah PAC released "Mama Grizzlies," a video that consists mostly of audio clips from a speech Palin gave to the anti-abortion rights group, Susan B. Anthony List The new president of EMILY's List, Stephanie Schriock, spoke in Boston last month about Palin. The Boston Globe reported that Schriock said Palin "represents a set of values that are way out of the mainstream and arguably out of the mainstream of the Republican Party."Schriock replaced EMILY's List founder, Ellen Malcolm, earlier this year. The group, which was founded 25 years ago, is trying to lure younger women who may have no memory of life before Roe v. Wade to its pro-choice cause. Palin is now the poster girl for it.So far, Palin hasn't addressed the EMILY's List campaign against her.On Monday afternoon, she told her Facebook followers she would appear that evening on Greta Van Susteren's show on Fox News to discuss energy resources in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, among other topics."I'm traveling with Greta Van Susteren to Alaska's North Slope and ANWR to discuss how developing our resources can contribute to America's energy independence, security, job growth, and economic stability," Palin wrote. "You'll see what the remote 20 million acres of ANWR with its vast oil and gas reserves really looks like (unlike the extreme environmentalists' fundraising pics)." ||||| 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."
– Time to face facts, ladies: The Tea Party express appears to be fueled by estrogen. A new film on the ferociously reactionary "Mama Grizzlies" examines candidates like Sharron Angle and Nikki Haley (and now Christine O'Donnell) rattling political races—as well as grassroots organizers of the "reborn" conservative movement stretching back to Phyllis Schafly (who wouldn't, of course, want to be associated with anything as unladylike as a hairy bear). The momentum, ironically, makes the Republican Party the current champion for number of women running for the Senate, due in large part to Sarah Palin's "king-making" endorsements, notes the Washington Post. “I don’t know if it's that mama grizzly instinct being awakened, if women are feeling threatened, or if it’s because women are feeling neglected—or empowered—but you can’t deny that there’s something happening today," conservative commentator SE Cupp says on the film Fire From the Heartland: The Reawakening of the Conservative Woman by the right-wing Citizens United. A GOP pollster says no one says "political outsider" like a Republican woman because "so few of them" have made it to the inner sanctums of Washington. (For more on the newest grizzly, click here.)