[sometime lurker]

Okay, ‘sometime lurker’, are you young or are you old? That is, were you around for when Ronald Reagan was a running the joke. The giggle of half the nation? It actually continued well into and through his administration, though somehow by his second term he pulled off the biggest landslide in modern times.

I'm on the older side, and I certainly remember President Reagan, and Sarah Palin is not Ronald Reagan.

Whatever the media narrative may have been, Reagan had thought deeply about many issues, studied them, was speaking about them during his time at GE, well before he ran for office. He was twice elected governor of California. Candidate Reagan's interviews were different from Candidate Palin's.

[9YearLurker]

No, of course she’s not Ronald Reagan, but Ronald Reagan was a national laughingstock to the very same types of people who have laughed at Palin.

Surprise, surprise. Your initial concern was that others couldn’t see through the caricature—but now I see that you believe the caricature yourself.

She’s regularly had higher approval ratings than Romney did right on through to the election. Somehow, I don’t think you were so worried about that.