Alaskan politician Andrew Halcro has a very interesting post on the appeal of Sarah Palin.

In April of 2006, the morning after a debate at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, Palin and I were sharing a cup of coffee at the Captain Cook. “I hear you spout off facts and figures with no notes and I’m just amazed, but then I look�out over the audience and I wonder if it really makes a difference”, she said to me.

Palin�was correct.�Having a grasp of the issues and facts�didn’t make a damn bit of difference.

Voters loved Palin for who she was, not what she knew and therefore gave her a pass and accepted her glittering generalities as public policy gold. All�her vague talk about new energy and transparency were more important than specifics on improving education or public safety.

(h/t Stanley Sea.)