With all due respect, taking the high road against the Rats has NOT worked at all. When they are playing by Alinsky rules, you can't play by Marquess of Queensbury rules and expect to win.
If we're going to defeat them, then yes, we have to take off the silk gloves, put on the brass knuckles, and get down in the mud and slug it out with them using their own rules against them.
And Sarah Palin is doing that.
I agree, but none of what you have said relates to my point that we can do all you suggest (and more) without being vulgar, coarse or childish.