Posted on 09/04/2008 2:49:17 PM PDT by mathprof
I’ve been trying to convince my fellow conservatives that they have been wasting their time in a fruitless quest for a new Ronald Reagan to emerge and lead our party and our nation. I insisted that we’d never see his like again because he was one of a kind.
I was wrong!
Wednesday night I watched the Republican National Convention on television and there, before my very eyes, I saw my Dad reborn; only this time he's a she.
And what a she!
In one blockbuster of a speech, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin resurrected my Dad’s indomitable spirit and sent it soaring above the convention center, shooting shock waves through the cynical media’s assigned spaces and electrifying the huge audience with the kind of inspiring rhetoric we haven’t heard since my Dad left the scene.
This was Ronald Reagan at his best -- the same Ronald Reagan who made the address known now solely as “The Speech,” which during the Goldwater campaign set the tone and the agenda for the rebirth of the traditional conservative movement that later sent him to the White House for eight years and revived the moribund GOP.
Last night was an extraordinary event. Widely seen beforehand as a make-or-break effort -- either an opportunity for Sarah Palin to show that she was the happy warrior that McCain assured us she was, or a disaster that would dash McCain’s presidential hopes and send her back to Alaska, sadder but wiser.
Obviously un-intimidated by either the savage onslaught to which the left-leaning media had subjected her, or the incredible challenge she faced -- and oozing with confidence -- she strode defiantly to the podium and proved she was everything and even more than John McCain told us.
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Welcome back, Dad, even if you’re wearing a dress...
(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...
Wow! I’m speechless!
I like her but we still have to see how she does in an unscripted confrontation with the enemy.
If John McCain does nothing else in this campaign, he’ll go down in history as the person who catapulted Palin on to the national stage.
very well, I suspect
Sarah Ronald Reagan Palin.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
I have admit, she makes me feel the way Reagan did the first time I heard him speak, back when he ran against Ford for the Republican primary (if memory serves, he paid for a half hour and just talked to us—I was enthralled—it was in maybe August or Sept of 1976).
susie
WOW! What an endorsement!
Like her too, but this kind of praise is a lil much based on one speech. Get back to me when she destroys the Soviet Empire.
I was wondering what he thought of her. That’s wonderful to read!
I think most of us who remember Reagan knew from the moment we first heard him that he was Great in the real sense of the word. We didn’t have to wait for him to finish anything.
susie
Gonna be the highest-rated VP debate in history, no close second. Should be highly amusing, too.
Thanks for the commentary Michael.
Your father also had a lot of “family” issues that he over came and I am sure the pressure you had on you as a child can make you especially sympathetic to the media’ cruel invasion and rumor mongering of Bristol Palin.
God Bless You and your Family and keep up the good work in memory of the Gipper.
Agreed. Let her be Sarah Palin, instead of trying to be the next Ronald Reagan.
Ronald Reagan was one of a kind, so is Sarah Palin.
That’s what’s great about great men, they are all unique. It’s the evil tyrants like Hitler and Stalin that are always boring cliched copies of each other.
BUMP
"Devil in a Blue Dress" for liberals. They must be squirming and ready to scream.
Me too, but I am optimistic and hopeful... :-)
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