Populist ideas are those that resound with the masses, regardless of whether they are conservative or liberal. Some of Sarah’s “populist” ideas include bragging about sticking to the oil companies, and attacking Wall Street for the banking meltdown, instead of attacking the Democrats’ intermeddling and forcing banks to loan to unqualified borrowers.
I won't speculate on why you loathe her, (it's usually one or all of three things with bitter females), but your pathetic attempts to malign her will not succeed.
By the way, what would your opinion be of a person who was the head of a union and fought for that union's members against the heads or CEOs of a corporation, or even a movie studio? Why he would be just as awful as that braggadocio Palin, wouldn't he? Certainly not your kind of "populist".