POLITICO– If you think you’re seeing Stephanie Cutter everywhere these days, you would be right.

There she is after the recent Supreme Court ruling accusing Mitt Romney of not being truthful about his position on health care reform, dueling with Republican heavyweights on national television, giving the Obama-bashing Koch brothers the back of the hand on one her many YouTube videos, and presiding over the Obama campaign’s controversial assaults on Romney’s corporate career.

In the blink of an eye, the unrelenting Democratic strategist and deputy campaign manager has emerged as the ubiquitous face and trenchant voice of the Obama operation—a one-woman rapid response squad flooding the zones on cable, YouTube and the Sunday news shows.

She’s considered one of the campaign’s few dependable voices at a time when the Obama team can’t seem to manage its free-wheeling surrogates like Bill Clinton, and when some Democrats worry that the campaign is not doing enough to put forth a clear, forward-looking message.

“Stephanie Cutter is arguably the strongest player on either side out there now,” said Republican strategist Steve Schmidt, who was her opposite number on the 2004 Bush- Kerry race, and later during two Supreme Court nominations skirmishes “She is a very, very good on TV as a messenger for the campaign.”

That Cutter has emerged as one of the most prominent voices in the party, and one of its top strategists and crisis managers, is remarkable given where she was eight years ago, a time when many thought her career in politics had crashed. After a tumultuous ride as communications director for John Kerry’s 2004 presidential effort, she was all but written off by many operatives and journalists who saw her as a difficult and surly personality in a failed campaign. She became a convenient scapegoat for the campaign’s many shortcomings.

Friends and political opponents alike say her return to the front lines is a testament to her raw talent, tenacity and discipline. “No one who was ever an opponent of Stephanie Cutter has come away with anything other than an abiding respect,” says Schmidt.

“She is a terrific surrogate because she distills the president’s message- and contrasts it with Romney’s—in a way that resonates with the national media, and that the average person understands,” says presidential adviser David Plouffe. “She’s very aggressive about seeing an opportunity and moving fast.”

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