Although Palin has kind words for the 35th president early in her book (she finds his inauguration address inspiring), she later contrasts him unfavorably to former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney. When it comes to speaking about their religious affiliations, Palin says, Kennedy "dismissed [his faith] as a private matter meaningful only to him."
The difference between Kennedy and Romney, she writes, "is striking: where Kennedy seemed to want to run away from religion, Mitt Romney forthrightly embraced it."
