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One of the things you quickly learn when you visit the Palins is that the legend created around who they are and how they live is no myth. It appears to be absolutely real and everything about them seems 100% sincere. From the stuffed hunting trophies on the wall, to Track’s military photo by the TV set, to Piper’s crayon school projects on the refrigerator door - everything is exactly as you imagined.

What’s particularly valuable about my perspective is that I am not Charlie Gibson, Matt Lauer or Greta Van Susteren (who I understand now gets her mail delivered to the Palin home) — the conductors of the three most prominent interviews done in this Wasilla home on a frozen lake at the end of a drive with the sign “Palins” posted on a tree. I am virtually unknown nationally and there was absolutely no reason for anything to be done differently as “show” for us. We saw the genuine Sarah Palin and it is patently obvious this is the only one who exists.

She is the real deal.

She is also the sort of person the Founders and Framers envisioned as serving the Republic by holding office for a short period of time, as a duty to their nation. The notion of a professional political class, residing in a permanent bubble, divorced from their fellows and the reality of daily life in America, would have appalled and repelled them.

While I have my disagreements with Ms. Palin, I’d far rather see our national offices held by people who actually live in the same messy, cluttered, worrisome world I do, than self-entitled prima donnas whose houses are cleaned by maids, whose children attend private schools, who travel in chauffered vehicles and private jets, and who have no idea what day to day life for the vast majority of Americans even looks like.

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