She would need to take speech/voice lessons if she runs. I interact with alot of non-political “independent” voters, mostly women. Not leftwing nuts. They don’t hear a word Sarah Palin says because they can’t stand her voice and folksy speech patterns which they mistake for a lack of intelligence. Tina Fey’s impressions have spoiled the well with that group of voters.
“She would need to take speech/voice lessons if she runs. I interact with alot of non-political “independent” voters, mostly women. Not leftwing nuts. They don’t hear a word Sarah Palin says because they can’t stand her voice and folksy speech patterns which they mistake for a lack of intelligence. Tina Fey’s impressions have spoiled the well with that group of voters.”
This is why the classical art of Rhetoric is so important. It is said that Demosthenes used to go to the beach and speak with pebbles in his mouth to force him to clearly enunciate his words. That may be too extreme.
But the McGuffey Reader used to be the standard educational text for all Americans and the higher levels included pages and pages of elocution passages.