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Honestly, as a woman I am just amazed that any woman could comment on her voice.......

I feel I can comment on this particularly because I'm a woman. I'll let the comment about not hearing her message go---if I didn't hear the message I wouldn't bother. The substance of her message is not the problem. She'll have to win over not only conservative voters, but the majority of the voting public no matter which party, and the press alone has done a pretty good job of marginalizing her as it is. Obviously this all will be moot if she doesn't run, and I'm not sure she will.

I suppose it depends if you prefer humor in you political speeches to a more serious, step by step, logical, putting out of the policy picture.
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But Sarah is not a candidate yet, and she may not stand at all. If she becomes a candidate you will see some of the more basic nuts and bolts type speeches. This was a speech to an audience that would like the humor and enjoy it.
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Different venue, different speech.
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The average person needs to have political issues explained emotional, everyday terms, in an engaging and entertaining manor. The Democrats understand “politics is show business” rule better than anyone else in US politics, and *that's* why they attack her like their lives depend on it.
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If she becomes a candidate the individual contribution floodgate will open, and the Dems could be blown out of the water. Whatever the media thinks they can do will be tried in the primary season, if they fail to stop her there, the Dems are Toast.
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If a politician is not entertaining when they give a speech the public, media, almost everyone in fact do not pay any attention. The oxygen in the room just leaves in seconds.
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You or I might listen to the ideas of a boring public speaker, but for modern politics in the TV age the public will not.

Yes, it will all be moot if she chooses not to run.
However, as a woman, you are doing her no favors by deriding her voice, it smacks of women treating other women poorly.

I too am a woman, so I am quite attuned to this unfortunate habit women have, I honestly will never understand it.