[sklar]

Palin is a once-in-a-generation Leader. She is the Real Deal, the Ronald Reagan of our Generation.

Herman Cain is a Bullsh!t artist with a happy face and a nice smile. A salesman who sells Pizza and Public Policy for Nine ninety-nine.

[Soothesayer9]

Too bad she doesnt speak like Reagan. She’d be decimated in the debates anyway.

[Sea Parrot]

Cain may be likable, but from the getgo when he showed up on the scene I commented he was too much of a rock and roller hipster for this child.

[riverdawg]

“Palin is a once-in-a-generation Leader. She is the Real Deal, the Ronald Reagan of our Generation.”

Reagan was a two-term governor of our most populous state, and had been a well-known spokesman for conservative positions on a wide range of issues (both domestic and foreign) for many years before he entered electoral politics. Reagan had a crystal-clear vision for the US at home and in the world, and devoted forty years of his life to seeing that that vision materialized.

Palin was a half-term governor of one of our least-populous states, who left office when the going got tough. She doesn't have the executive experience, single-minded determination, and political instincts that Ronald Reagan possessed when he first ran for the Republican nomination in 1976. As much as I liked and campaigned for her in 2008, while holding my nose for the top of the ticket, she has been a terrible disappointment since then.