Sarah is no Ronald Reagan or Margaret Thatcher. She is a provincial politician who needs to study and prepare before she even has a chance at winning a national election.
“She is a provincial politician who needs to study and prepare...”
Perhaps, but she appears to be a diamond in the rough.
Yeah, but she has “it.” Would you buy proto-Reagan as the descriptor? I’d say she is one of the closest to the ideal.
Sarah will need to write a bit too, IMHO. She needs to express her opinions and beliefs as she also governs Alaska and acting on those beliefs.
I don’t expect Sarah Palin to be another Ronald Reagan. I do expect her to represent conservative values and positions better than every Republican candidate or President since President Reagan.
The entrance of Sarah Palin on the national ticket energized and excited the conservative base more than any other candidate did this year. Not Thompson, not Romney, not Hunter, none of them galvanized the Republican base to the extent Sarah did. It will take a Sarah Palin or a Bobby Jindal to get conservatives as excited as Democrats were with Obama.
The GOP base and many on FR have fallen in love with Palin because of her life choices. She choose life for her dow syndrome baby and she is a hunter. Palin’s life story champions small town America.
Unfortunately, Palin’s small town American values are a turn off to suburbia. With problems in Iraq, housing market, and the stock market, suburbanites now perceive the GOP as a country club for Southern Baptists who care only about banning gay marriage. The media’s focus on Palin’s social conservativism reinforce that sterotype.
In the future, conservatives need to reconnect with surburban voters by proving to them that they can be trusted with solving problems. The coming budget problems facing several states will provide opportunities for our rising stars like Palin, Jindal, Crist, and Sanford to show to the world that being a Republican does not equal dumb hick.