“Patton had proven many times that he was a great commander.
Palin has proven that she is very popular.
Blind loyalty is not a virtue.”
1) An historical analogy is just that, analogy. Patton had not proved many times that he was a great commander. He took over the Seventh Army, his first field command, On March 6, 1943 and fought his first battle at El Qatar in Tunisia in mid March. He had been in command for less than five months when on August 3, 1943, the slapping incident occurred. He had won some battles, but his great triumphs in France lay ahead of him. He did have great potential, which very nearly went unrealized because of the insignificant slapping incident. That is the point of my analogy.
2) “Palin has proven she is very popular.”
That kinda tells me where you are coming from. In her two and one half years as governor, Palin accomplished a great deal, cutting taxes, slashing the budget, passing AGIA- the natural gas pipeline-(which had been stymied by Exxon’s corrupt alliance with previous administrations), in addition to exposing corruption as Chairman of the Oil and Gas Commission an during her terms as mayor and on the city council. In saying she has proven she is very popular, you prove yourself to be either a)grossly uninformed; or b) a surrogate for an unnamed candidate, or both.
In any event, my loyalty is not blind.
Don't know much about Patton, do you? You conveniently left out the Mexican expeditionary raid, his service, and leadership during WWI and his several commands between the wars.
Palin has some accomplishments to be sure, but they pale in comparison to Patton's, even before 1942.