1. She’s truly conservative.
2. She’s tough (i.e. she has guts, and the inner peace and sense of self not to take it personally when she is attacked).
3. She’s happy. She has a cheerful, likeable demeanor that keeps her toughest political statements from seeming mean-spirited.
I tend to think (also after having read her books) that all three of these come from her deeply-held faith in God.
PS, There was another political figure for whom all of this was true...
“PS, There was another political figure for whom all of this was true...”
Yes, I was thinking about Bachmann too.