First, please don't tell me what I think. I happen to speak from thirty years' experience in media. If you do too, that's great.
I think she could benefit from a speech coach. I understand the need to 'be yourself' when you speak and if you read my full comment you would see that I had no argument with the content. I just wish she had a better speaking voice. That doesn't mean monotone, as you implied.
If you've ever done public speaking, as I have, you'd know that when you try to force your voice you can run into trouble. Her voice is thin. That's her only issue and as I said, I hope it doesn't cost her. I can imagine lightweights like Tina Fey parodying her and doing real damage among people who aren't as politically sophisticated as those on this site.
...............I think most Freepers are simply so glad to have someone like Sarah courageously fighting for us “in the arena” that ANY criticism is, at first blush, met with some hostility.
Second, I also think that most of us who support Sarah have one thing that we love the most about her and that is that largely she just does not give a damn what ANYBODY thinks about her political positions, her clothes, her family, her daughters, her speech, her voice, what she eats, what she reads, Todd or anything else.................NO, basically, she is just going to be HERSELF which includes NOT holding up a finger into the wind and then staking a position! Bottom line: She clearly believes that “If being myself gets me elected FINE ! If not, FINE too!” We like that!