Palin's recent book tour to Fayetteville, NC was not most widely known for the signings at Fort Bragg, but instead for her dinner with Billy Graham, known evangelist.
The Palin meeting was arranged by Graham's son, evangelist Franklin Graham, who met Palin in Alaska in February. Franklin Graham's organization, Samaritan's Purse, had delivered food along the Yukon River to families experiencing a hard winter.
In the North Carolina mountains, the two families prayed, broke bread and shared stories. Billy Graham autographed two Bibles. The elder Graham said, "I, like many people, have been impressed with her strong commitment to her faith, to family and love of country."
Franklin Graham told The Charlotte Observer that his father has "followed her career and likes her strong stand on faith. Daddy feels God was using her to wake America up."
The two Grahams' remarks have received wide circulation in the religious press. Religion remains a powerful strand in American politics.
Sometimes people for an explanation of Palin's political appeal - she is among the leading candidates for the GOP presidential nomination in 2012. It is not so much about issues and ideology. She was a fairly pragmatic governor of Alaska.
It is about going rogue, as her book title suggests, about class politics, and about the power of religion.
Which is why approving comments from Billy Graham are far more important to her supporters than questions pundits raise about her presidential credentials.
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