I’m with you. In this election, emotions are the lingua franca and our side, no matter how cute and cuddly, won’t be able to jinn-up the kind of emotional tidal wave that the RATs have with their mutant hordes. We need kick-@ss and take names later leadership. McCain, for all his vaunted temper issues is more like Bob Dole and Sarah, while a truly great hope, is still performing at the national level like Mary Ann on Gilligan’s Island.
The gloves need to come off and these people need to get down to real business.
But here's what she has going for her, and I think she could be very effective and attract a much broader following of supporters (beyond the people who will support and fawn over her regardless of how she performs):
She talks straight, and from what I can tell, what you see is what you get with her -- she's not putting on airs, and I believe she's sincere, and for once in our lives, a political candidate who isn't beholden to special interests, multinational corporations, etc. So she has the strength of character and ability to speak directly without parsing words or deception, to her viewers. What she NEEDS to do now, is bone up on her facts! Roll up her sleeves and immerse herself in the issues, the causes, the solutions --- so that instead of hearing "We all need to pull together and say "Never again"" (Are you freaking KIDDING me?! Is this a Brady Bunch episode?) -- Instead of that, she can speak intelligently, eloquently, and in plainspeak to viewers saying, "You know what, there's a shovelfull of blame to go around to a lot of people on this one -- homebuyers were greedy, lenders were greedy, institutions were greedy, and the fed was pushing loans to people who couldn't afford them out of a misplaced sense of political correctness! And here are the figures -- xx% of the loss is attributable to this, etc., etc."