He keeps saying that ordinary citizens are sick and tired of politics.
What he has not realized is that there is a virulent class of citizens who do not relish the thought of having black and brownskinned people as citizens with equla rights.They will fight tooth and nail to relegate such people to second class citizenship, either by disenfranchising them or committing outright fraud.
Sara Palin appeals to these citizens.Putting up Palin as a counterforce to Barack Obama brings out all the primal fears of this class which at its core envisions that white women will be raped by black men with big dicks if they are given equal rights.
I think Rick Davis has hit upon something which more than a century after the Emancipation Proclamation has such force on the minds of people.