[Stentor]

No - they're not the same people (wish folks would get past that), but they do share an amazing number of similar qualities, experiences, and personal traits.

She going to have one of these some day? Whatever she is and it may be great, it's a bogus comparison.

[Windflier]

Whatever she is and it may be great, it's a bogus comparison.

Geez, friend. Take a longer view, if you can (both backward, and forward in time).

In 1980, people said the exact same things as you're saying, about Ronald Reagan. NO - Sarah Palin is NOT Ronald Reagan, just as he wasn't anyone who came before him.

The POINT, is that Palin shares many qualities with Reagan that were central to all that he accomplished in life. There is no reason to believe that if she goes on to become the 45th president, that she won't achieve similar things.

Now, if you're of the camp who believe that Sarah Palin is a backwater dunce with an 'aw shucks' simpleton's view of the world, then nothing I say will make the slightest sense to you.