Actually, I believe her attractiveness does give her an edge. It's just a fact of life. I don't mind it because it's nice to look at an attractive person. I think if you've got it flaunt it. Women who don't, aren't using all their God given resources.
But you must admit, if Hillary were the topic, her looks would be fodder for much humor and snide remarks. I think that's because women judge a lot of their worth on their looks and so others (men and women) either give "pats" of approval to be nice or "slaps" of nastiness to be hurtful.
Attractive people get more attention. It's part of Palin's package.
We have a rendezvous with destiny: all the usual factors are potentiated by perilous crisis.
We have an Islamo-Marxist jihadist sheepdipped as messiah bent on our destruction.
We have passion and a process and promote our candidates towards a certain victory.
January 20, 2013, at noon the moving vans will take the invaders from 1600 Pennsylvania forever.