One of Sarah Palin's fearless acts of love and kindness

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When Vietnam veteran Dave Roever was in Alaska for a series of five speaking engagements, ranging from a community church in Anchorage to Fort Wainwright in Fairbanks, he was scheduled for a guest shot on Glenn Beck's show. The problem was that Dave had no access to the television equipment requred for his Beck show appearance. When Sarah Palin learned of Roever's situation, she graciously invited him into her home, where she has a television studio for her frequent appearances as a Fox News contributor.

But the Blue Star mom went above and beyond a simple act of kindness. When Beck asked her to arrange for a makeup artist to come to the studio to help Roever prepare for his appearance, the 2008 GOP vice presidential candidate volunteered her time and efforts to do Roever's makeup herself. Bear in mind that the combat vet was badly disfigured by a phosphorus grenade which exploded six inches from his face. Yet Gov. Palin did not flinch as she applied Rover's makeup, nor did she recoil in horror at adjusting his artificial ear, but merely performed a first-class makeup job in a calm and professional manner:



Mediaite's Frances Martel comments:

Think of it as the political opposite of the John Edwards hair-fiddling tape: here is Palin, a global superstar at this point, doing the makeup of a Glenn Beck guest and proffering her studio to help her pals out... She doesn’t say a word in the clip, nor does she look like she is wearing any make-up (her hair might even be at the reasonably messy level most people’s is when they’re not on TV!). The message: Sarah is a team player.

Contrast this to the message about Palin we’ve been getting the rest of the week, especially from that scathing Vanity Fair profile... and if Palin continues to crank out apolitical and light-hearted moments like this one, she’ll only make it harder for those on the left to continue to find her irritating and noxious.

We see a deeper significance in this act of kindness by Gov. Palin. It's about more than simply being a team player. It has to do with the abiding faith of Sarah Palin. In the Gospel of Matthew, Jesus answered a lawyer's question, saying:

"Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets."

And in John 15, Jesus proclaimed:

"Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends."

Honoring Dave Roemer as one of those who was willing to lay down his life for his brothers in arms, Gov. Palin was humbled to give the veteran a gift of love and kindness, the sort of act that we can carry out only with God’s help. The key ingredient in kindness is love. By applying makeup to Roever's disfigured face and gently aligning his plastic ear, Sarah Palin demonstrates a fearless love for her brother in Christ:

"Love has been perfected among us in this: that we may have boldness in the day of judgment; because as He is so are we in this world. There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves torment. But he who fears has not been made perfect in love." - 1 John 4:17, 18

Sarah Palin lives her faith. This is something about her that the media people -- and the political left that so many of them are a part of -- just do not understand.

h/t: Video courtesy of Palin TV

- JP