rewrite this: Let me confess that I was genuinely unnerved by NAME_1's performance at the Republican convention. Given her audience and the needs of the moment, I believe Governor NAME_2's speech was the most effective political communication I have ever witnessed. Here, finally, was a performer who—being maternal, wounded, righteous and sexy—could stride past the frontal cortex of every American and plant a three-inch heel directly on that limbic circuit that ceaselessly intones "God and country." If anyone could make Christian theocracy smell like apple pie, NAME_1 could.

Then came NAME_2's first television interview with NAME_3. I was relieved to discover, as many were, that NAME_2's luster can be much diminished by the absence of a teleprompter. Still, the problem she poses to our political process is now much bigger than she is. Her fans seem inclined to forgive her any indiscretion short of cannibalism. However badly she may stumble during the remaining weeks of this campaign, her supporters will focus their outrage upon the journalist who caused her to break stride, upon the camera operator who happened to capture her fall, upon the television network that broadcast the good lady's misfortune—and, above all, upon the "liberal elites" with their highfalutin assumption that, in the 21st century, only a reasonably well-educated person should be given command of our nuclear arsenal.

The point to be lamented is not that NAME_1 comes from outside Washington, or that she has glimpsed so NAME_4 The response should be in all capital letters.
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