Excellent and fair assessment, and fortunately, her heretofore shrill delivery has diminished considerably. Both my wife and I read her book and read the text of her interviews. We love her Conservative Reaganesque politics and her love of America, but my wife will not listen to her speak.
We watched the latest Alaska show an hour ago, and my wife came to that same conclusion.
About half way through that show I was beginning to fast forward.
If she doesn't change, she will never get past being a media/political pop star. If she wants to go for the top office in the land, she needs to act like a top officer of the land.
I can't listen to her for very long either. So high-pitched and shrill. It's like an ice pick to the ear drums.