Self-composed

John Killian wrote an excellent article at United Liberty where he points out early on that nothing sticks to Palin. She’s being called the teflon candidate. As I commented on his blog, nothing sticks because there’s nothing sticky.

Her pastor isn’t cursing our country, her husband is by all indications proud of the country, and she hasn’t surrounded herself with angry extremists her entire adult life. Oh yeah, and she’s already ran something.

Killian also does a great job summarizing some of the reasons for Palin’s remarkable popularity:

1) Sarah Palin expresses a defined philosophy of limited government, free enterprise, and a strong military. The ring of truth in her speaking is encouraging to the average American.

2) Sarah Palin has a strong aura, a powerful Christian testimony, and a wholesome appearance. Outside the doctored photos circulating the internet, every appearance of Gov. Palin is clean, modest, and a picture of the girl next door.

3) Gov. Palin speaks with sincerity. Americans listen and know that Sarah Palin is not speaking with deceit.

4) Gov. Palin’s approach is not that of an Ivy League elitist, but that of a common citizen with working class roots. Even when the story broke about her daughter’s pregnancy, most Americans felt her pain. Every family identifies with broken hearts and disappointments. Frankly, this situation underscored her pro-life convictions.

Not only does she have a strong philosophy, she’s has a record of acting on that philosophy, even when it may not have been politically expedient. She’s also real. Hollywood types can’t identify with her, but the people Obama alienated with his “cling to guns and religion” remark do identify with her. She can speak with sincerity because she has nothing do lie or be deceptive about. Neither does McCain for that matter. During the primaries, Biden was saying Obama isn’t fit to be president, and vowing never to be a VP while Obama was courting the extreme left. Meanwhile, McCain was pushing the surge when it was least popular and Palin was cleaning up corruption in Alaska.

Notice the liberal/media excuse for Biden’s turnaround. “Candidates will say a lot of things during a tough campaign…” And with typical arrogance, they expect us regular folk to just swallow that and smile. What they said is “Biden and Obama will tell you anything to get power.” People are beginning to see that more and more in the Democratic candidates. They don’t see it in Palin because it isn’t there.

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