Said Palin:

And now, comrades, as we stand besieged by fusillades of partisan catechisms, we cannot afford to forget a fundamental verity: our opponent is a rhetorical vessel and nothing more.  He is but a hubristic neophyte, a man clinging with fervor to long-discredited melioristic chimera and a man who is followed by throngs of frothy-mouthed, purblind acolytes, wishing to foment change yet knowing not even for what they cheer; to brand them Pollyannas is to demean and debase a harmless member of our lexicon. Countrymen and countrywomen, I shed tears for this great nation that a contest can be borne from such poverty of substance.

Seriously, can we put this "plainspoken" thing to rest.  I don't want somebody who talks like Finnegan's Wake, but Palin sounds like she's still speaking in front of the PTA when compared to, oh, I don't know, Hillary Clinton.