Sure, it's kind of 'accusational' of me to open with a title that rubber-stamps Christianity as the 'FAILURE' (the way Christianity often rubber-stamps its secrets-of-success "God's blessing");

but the situation is such that–rather than reviewing all the obstacles (both real- and phantom-) Great-Aunt Sarah has had to overcome in order to get as far as she's gotten–the media more-enjoys digging up her past bright-victories in order to expose their dark shadows.

Why is this? Because we self-important reporters often feel that either she is not part of our family or we are not part of hers—wasn't Christianity supposed to 'make us One Family' by now?

'The smith' only hammers at 'the instrument' in order to cut the bad parts away; the remaining 'good' only needs to be paid-attention-to so much as will keep it from going bad—the Wikipedia page on Great-Aunt Sarah Palin shows us that her good is the good-ol` "got through school, got a job, had some kids, got into public office." And it's her job to keep it 'good.'