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Is Sarah Palin the Second Coming of Ronald Reagan?
Associated Content ^ | October 9, 2010 | Mark R. Whittington

Posted on 10/09/2010 2:18:25 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

At a reception and dinner attended by fifty conservative movers and shakers, Sarah Palin implicitly compared herself to President Ronald Reagan. At the same time she suggested that she is mulling a Presidential run in 2012.

According to Politico:

"Speaking to a group of well-connected Republicans at a private dinner in Florida this week, Sarah Palin implicitly addressed questions about her own electability by noting that critics also said Ronald Reagan couldn't win in 1980, three attendees told POLITICO.

"Palin, at an event organized by the conservative magazine Newsmax, told the right-wing crowd that those who don't have the same convictions will always say a true conservative can't win.

"Pointing out that the knock on Reagan was that he was also too far to the right, the former Alaska governor repeatedly invoked the 40th president and conservative icon, at one point citing the quotation he was most fond of: that America is a "shining city on a hill."

"'I think she sees herself as heir to Reagan,' said one attendee."

While just about every Republican politician invokes Ronald Reagan, just as Democrats like to invoke John Kennedy or Franklin Roosevelt, Sarah Palin's implicit suggestion that she is the heir or even the second coming of Ronald Reagan would seem somewhat presumptuous, at least at first glance.

There are some parallels. Like Reagan, Palin was a state governor. Like Reagan, a large percentage of the liberal intelligentsia has labeled her, mistakenly, as somewhat dim. Like Reagan, she is beloved by many, hated by many more. Like Reagan, Palin is something of a media star.

There are differences, of course...

(Excerpt) Read more at associatedcontent.com ...


TOPICS: Alaska; Issues; Parties; State and Local
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To: onyx

I still have one of those still frames in my memory of standing in the lunch line sing it. The kicker is we were 6-7 years old. :)


161 posted on 10/10/2010 5:48:00 PM PDT by Clyde5445 (Gov. Sarah Palin: :"You have to sacrifice to win. That's my philosophy in 6 words.")
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To: Proud_USA_Republican
Ronald Reagan didn’t quit as Governor.

LOL!

You didn't get the memo, did you? The "quitter" meme was fully discredited a long time ago.

162 posted on 10/10/2010 5:50:43 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer); onyx; All
I like Sarah. She is a good person. But she is not the answer for our next president. Tragically, I see the Bushbots scrambling to their new messiah, Sarah. We now have the Sarahbots. These folks only think emotionally and not rationally.

You know what I'm sick of? Being called names because I happen to like a candidate.

Who do you like for our next President? Shall we all tag you with a catchy little demeaning name just because that's your candidate of choice?

I like certain things Bush did and certain things Palin does. That makes me neither a "bot" nor a "Palin messiah worshiper". It just makes me a person with the freedom to choose my own candidate

If you ask me, it's those that don't like these people that go over the top in the attacks. They seek out posted news articles and feel the need to reply on those threads with adhominen attacks.

I find it hard to believe that those who claim to hold dear our Constitution, feel the need to ridicule a person for exercising their right to choose their own candidate.

I suppose you'd now say I'm just thinking emotionally. The problem is I, and many others, long ago listed our rationale for supporting Palin but it fell on deaf ears as it was much more fun to just call us cutesy little names.

163 posted on 10/10/2010 6:11:38 PM PDT by CAluvdubya ("Sarah Palin fights, we cannot spare her."--GonzoGOP)
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To: PreciousLiberty
Well, gee, that would be like knocking Palin while supporting Reagan (who’s dead btw, guys...he can’t run this time).

Your point? I don't do that either.

164 posted on 10/10/2010 6:37:38 PM PDT by CAluvdubya ("Sarah Palin fights, we cannot spare her."--GonzoGOP)
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To: PreciousLiberty
Time has been kind to RR. He WAS a nice guy. He did have a good set of (mostly) conservative principles towards the end of his life, but he wasn’t particularly competent or smart

Whoa. Easy there, Kimba.

Reagan accomplished more and better things in his 8 years as president than any other in his century. I like Palin, but she's first got to win, then be president for 8 years, and then do the kind of thing RR did, which was to revive this country for an entire generation.

The pissy 1%ers on FR do forget that he did some very non-conservative things prior to his presidency and even some during his presidency, but then they're a bunch of gnat brained fools who have accomplished little in their own lives so they delight in tearing down.

165 posted on 10/10/2010 8:14:03 PM PDT by Lakeshark (Thank a member of the US armed forces for their sacrifice)
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To: CAluvdubya
Gadzooks, I'm late to the party, you already responded over an hour before I did.......
166 posted on 10/10/2010 8:17:04 PM PDT by Lakeshark (Thank a member of the US armed forces for their sacrifice)
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To: se_ohio_young_conservative; 2ndDivisionVet

Sarah needs your help here. Don’t abandon her.


167 posted on 10/10/2010 8:55:53 PM PDT by sickoflibs ("It's not the taxes, the redistribution is the federal spending=tax delayed")
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To: RichInOC
Ronald Reagan is no Sarah Palin,

Sarah Palin has normal kids and married only one time!

168 posted on 10/10/2010 11:20:53 PM PDT by factmart
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To: techno

Ronald Reagan is no Sarah Palin,

Sarah Palin has normal kids and married only one time!


169 posted on 10/10/2010 11:23:28 PM PDT by factmart
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To: Gargantua
She accomplished more in half a term as Governor than most two-term mere mortals ever thought of attempting

Details please.
170 posted on 10/11/2010 1:02:47 AM PDT by mkjessup (0bama is a traitor. And he squats to pee too.)
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To: EveningStar; MaggieCarta; pissant; humblegunner; indylindy; wtc911
Drink up! :)

Never!

I don't want to end up in a 2012 rendition of the below picture.


171 posted on 10/11/2010 4:36:13 AM PDT by rabscuttle385 (Live Free or Die)
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To: mkjessup
"Details please."

Again? You've seen them posted here and other places dozens of times. Think you can get the trained seal to jump through the hoop again, just to convince you of something you already know? You really are a thick one, aren't you?

Do yourself a few favors:

1) Admit that you're too dense to remember having seen the remarkable list of things that Sarah did in her first half-term as Governor that two prior 2-term Guv's tried and failed at.

2) Admit that no matter how many times you are shown this amazing list, and the fact that Sarah did all this AND had a baby AND ran for VP, you'll wake up tomorrow somehow mysteriously "ignorant" of it all over again.

] 3) Admit that it really doesn't matter if you remember or not, because with or without your simple-minded approval or inneffectual aid, Sarah remains the most powerful force in politicas today; even moreso than the president.

4) Acknowledge that Sarah will be president in 2012 despite the opposition you feel so strongly but cannot support with facts because "you just can't remember."

Then you won't keep soiling yourself in public by repeatedly asking the same people to keep posting the same answers over and over as though this makes you seem intelligent or even clever: it does not. You just sound like a mewling, drooling imbecile with an axe to grind but, unfortunately, with the attention span of a mushy grape.

That's why nobody cares what you say. I'll make a compromise with you: here's a detail... You Are An Unusually Useless Tool.

Now go get the wipes, clean off your naughty little bottom, and try not to crap yourself in public again, n'kay? It's really sad. Think of the children...

;-/

172 posted on 10/11/2010 4:44:39 AM PDT by Gargantua (Palin-Bachman 2012... just call it "Pa-Bach" :-)
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To: Gargantua; All

What a petulant little child you are. I ask one question in my #170, and you respond with an unwarranted, personal attack filled with nothing but ignorance and insults.

I’m sure Sarah would really approve of your vitriol and foul attitude, have you ever seen her respond to a politely posed question like that?

You and your kind do her more harm than good. You’re nothing but a termite in the lumberyard of her candidacy.


173 posted on 10/11/2010 5:31:51 AM PDT by mkjessup (0bama is a traitor. And he squats to pee too.)
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To: rabscuttle385
This is really, really hard, but I am NOT going to laugh AND I'm going to decline to comment.

I want extra credit for this...

174 posted on 10/11/2010 5:39:18 AM PDT by MaggieCarta (Looking for the off ramp on the road to serfdom)
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To: mkjessup
Now go get the wipes, clean off your naughty little bottom, and try not to crap yourself in public again, n'kay?

8^D

175 posted on 10/11/2010 5:49:28 AM PDT by Gargantua (Palin-Bachman 2012... just call it "Pa-Bach" :-)
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To: mkjessup
Details please.

(_8(|)

176 posted on 10/11/2010 5:50:44 AM PDT by Gargantua (Palin-Bachman 2012... just call it "Pa-Bach" :-)
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To: MaggieCarta
Giggle. I'm going to take my meds now. Giggle.

Have a nice little paper cup with pills in it, in my padded room.

Giggle. Drool.

Pick at my navel. Giggle.

Don't I sound clever? Drooling.

Giggle.

;-/

177 posted on 10/11/2010 5:58:28 AM PDT by Gargantua (Palin-Bachman 2012... just call it "Pa-Bach" :-)
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To: Gargantua
Sigh. No paper cups, they are injecting the stuff into me on a regular basis, around the clock. But, it does keep me docile.

Have a good day, sir or madam.

178 posted on 10/11/2010 6:11:24 AM PDT by MaggieCarta (Looking for the off ramp on the road to serfdom)
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To: MaggieCarta
Sigh. Giggle. Drool...
Wha...? < mumbling >

Giggle.

;-/

179 posted on 10/11/2010 6:22:05 AM PDT by Gargantua (Palin-Bachman 2012... just call it "Pa-Bach" :-)
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To: Gargantua; MaggieCarta; calcowgirl; pissant; Avoiding_Sulla; DoughtyOne
RE :” I believe this more firmly with every additional dishonest, uninformed, deceitful assault upon her person or her record. For these denizens of America's destruction to be so vitriolic in their pursuit of her demise is the surest proof that she's The One. The libtards (and their shameless ass-puppets in the GOP) are not now, nor have they ever, attacked any one figure (a private citizen, no less) with the sustained venom they aim at Sarah. It's because they know what we know, and it couldn't possibly be anything else. She's The One.

“The One”, LOL. Are you just pulling our legs with these comments?

It wasnt long ago that freepers were calling Obama 'The One', and it wasnt a complement either.

180 posted on 10/11/2010 7:08:32 AM PDT by sickoflibs ("It's not the taxes, the redistribution is the federal spending=tax delayed")
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