Exactly my point, dead on!
I believe TP'ers will accept, indeed they will welcome DC outsiders. But nothing is achieved getting behind people who are not aware of imagery and optics...and prove their unawareness by scrimping on a few camera-lessons and thereby destroying their commiunications effectiveness. I don't think I'm talking about Emmy-award level stuff, either. Robert Gibbs and Nancy Pelosi don't exactly come off very smoothly, and they have no problem dissembling and blathering on.
Bachmann needs some camera-gravitas lessons. I don't have one shred of doubt that she knows law, is very intelligent, and has a fine instinct for Constitutional principles. The issue is, when you look bad on camera, it cheapens your message, it is seriously on the record, and it gives the opposition lots of ammunition supplies.
Yet somehow Barney Frank is still in office. And Al Franken. And a bunch of other not-so-pretty people. Maybe Bachmann was sabotaged. Can’t have the people choosing their own leaders - they will be chosen for us.