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'Saint Sarah' Misses the Point Newsweek Cover Story Is a Caricature of Christianity KATHRYN JEAN LOPEZ You’d think she were one of the mysteries of our faith, all the writing that has gone into trying to grapple with the political career and attraction to and hatred for former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. In the case of the recent Newsweek cover portraying Palin as “Saint Sarah” — in a backhanded canonization not quite the same as the Vatican approach — the quandary isn’t all that mysterious. The Newsweek story, written by a writer who fashions herself as an expert on religion,...

Saint Sarah To white evangelical women, Sarah Palin is a modern-day prophet, preaching God, flag, and family—while remaking the religious right in her own image. Another memoirist might prefer to keep such matters private, but Sarah Palin is not another memoirist. In Going Rogue: An American Life, Palin describes, perhaps for the first time in the history of political autobiography, a furtive trip to an out-of-state drugstore to obtain a do-it-yourself pregnancy test. This was in the fall of 2007, when the 43-year-old mother of four was governor of Alaska and began to notice “some peculiar yet familiar physical symptoms,...

She was FORCED out for financial reasons. If anyone tells you she quit let them know otherwise. Her legal fee had accumulated higher than 500K. Her personal income was JUST OVER 100K a year. Financially her family was going under quickly. And they were filing another ethics complaint everytime she left the state. She was afraid to give interviews in the governors office. She was afraid to allow anyone other than staff in the Governors office after the TaserGate ordeal. They were destroying her. So, what were her options ? She tried to set up a legal defense fund. At...

For several decades, it has been an article of faith among political analysts that no candidate can win a U.S. presidential election unless he can dominate the broad center of the spectrum, that all candidates on the edges of the left or right are doomed. And since the G.O.P. Sarah Palin relies upon a base of support that is on the far right of the Republican Party, some experts have long declared that if she wins the nomination, it would simply be suicidal. Barry Goldwater's "extremism . . is no vice" campaign of 1964 provides the classic evidence. National opinion...

Through him you believe in God, who raised him from the dead and glorified him, and so your faith and HOPE are in God. 1 Peter 1:21 Unlike the buggy whip press who dutifully panned Palin’s Going Rogue, I’ve actually read this American success story. Unlike their WH e-mailed talking points that it was a whinefest, its quite the opposite and gives all the Glory to God. Her humility comes through as she sets the record straight on some of the most vicious attacks on any person to ever enter politics. She not only tells a very readable personal histoir...