Sarah Palin's lack of experience and her inability to answer questions directly was glaring. Besides this, her opinions on women and their rights have been far from progressive. Also, her emphasis on her experience as "hockey mom" during the presidential election campaign was irrelevant and did nothing but seek to draw attention from the issues.
I'm wondering if it's an almost inevitable connection between self-righteousness about so called "values" and the self-righteous people's own lack of sensitivity towards value systems other than their own narrowly-defined ones. What you say is so true of so many people in so many countries.