Hey...I'm a believer!!
But if I may...the time to crank it up is now. In my most humble opinion, and based on nothing more than what I think she needs to concentrate on...here's what I'd recommend...remember, this in only my opinion.
1. keep working with the speech coach; they are doing wonders.
2. Begin to rise above the "personal attacks"; they are not going to stop. And as she gets closer to announcing her candidacy and for all the time afterwards, they'll increase in number and severity. It's time to step up or elevate above the fray.
3. Sharpen her debating skills...really really sharpen them.
4. Start traveling to foreign countries (in particular, those not terribly friendly to the US). She needs exposure at that level - I'm thinking of visits to China, Russia, Saudia Arabia, Japan, Afghanistan, Iraq and the like. Let's see if her "star power" holds. Imagine earning praise from the likes of China's premier, Putin, King Abdullah, and others!!!
5. Accept invites to...or demand time on...the left's MSM. Might as well get into the ring with them. I've no doubt at all that she can hold her own against the worst of them.
6. Begin to formulate and stand on well thought out and reasoned domestic and foreign policy statements. She has all she needs in her own moral code. It's time to put them into policy statements and "attack" (yes, ATTACK) the current faux administration. They must be put on the defensive and kept there.
7. Begin to concentrate on winning over the "undecided" voters. And that will take the hiring of the meanest, most hard bitten conservative campaign manager she can find. She's got to turn her public image around, and that means changing the minds of the undecideds.
8. Begin to limit her time on FOX; she no longer needs it; and in fact, it may cause more harm than good over time. Besides, she changes no minds when using that particular "vehicle", and she must begin to change minds....lots of them.
Again, these are just my most humble opinions and thoughts regarding her. I really want her to succeed. With your gal's help, I'm pretty sure she will.
I'm not so sure. How many interviews did Odumbo do with FOX? I'm sick of playing their games. It's time to fight fire with fire. Her alternative media strategy has worked well. I see no reason to change it. They're going to criticize her regardless.
Remember '08? They dogged her about not doing LSM interviews, and then when she did one, they set her up. No. Screw them. Make them come to her. This strategy has already proven effective. She was the subject of two reasonable articles in Time magazine and the NY Times recently. There can be little doubt that she set the ground rules ahead of time.
Absolutely no reason to give those low-rating's disasters any boost in their ratings at all.
She is piad by Fox News, (which will stop) when or if she runs.