…That is why I am sure that Paul is enjoying the Palin candidacy, for she represents many of the qualities he was searching for in his vision of a federal populism: her willingness to tell Washington to go to hell, her unrelenting morality, even against leaders of her party, her easy embrace of Alaska’s uniqueness, her relaxed religiosity, and her full participation in life on America’s last frontier. That’s just the sort of thing Paul wanted, and he would have been delighted that it came from the mother of five.

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