We must have grown up in parallel universes. Where I lived, Reagan was so popular that we were forced to coin the term “Reagan Democrat”. I’ll make you a list of congressional votes during his term if you wish, but no president in history enjoyed as much across the aisle support as Ronald Reagan. Sarah Palin is no Ronald Reagan, and personally I think it’s downright insulting to Ronald Reagan to even make the comparison unless there is a punchline at the end.
“If by some Perotish quirk she does win the nomination, you can bet that many otherwise faithful Republicans, myself included, will not vote for her. Not because we’d prefer Obama, but because in the event of a Palin nomination, the message must be sent that it is unacceptable lest it happen again.”
You would have undoubtedly been in the ranks of Mary Dent Crisp in 1980 in leaving the GOP to support John Anderson. I have only one message for you. Don’t let the door hit you on the way out. You never supported Reagan, and your post to me proves it. You are no more a “faithful Republican” than Arlen Specter.
“We must have grown up in parallel universes. Where I lived, Reagan was so popular that we were forced to coin the term “Reagan Democrat”.”
We obviously did. You have no memories of Reagan until AFTER he was already President. The term “Reagan Democrat” did not exist until AFTER he was elected. This further suggests to me that your “talking points” are bullet points that don’t give you sufficient historical background to engage with someone who actually lived through the history.
In your post to Victoria DelSoul, you wrote:
“I guess my only real question to you, given what you posted is: Do you honestly believe she speaks well?”
My question to you is: Do you honestly believe you write well? On a thread just last week, you delivered the following clumsy, grammatically incorrect “sentence” :
“This woman is not presidential caliber material.”
“Caliber” and “material” are both nouns in the sentence (if you can call it that) that you constructed. But there is only one adjective. Of the several options you could have chosen to express a coherent thought, you overlooked them all and chose the one only a (what was the word your lordship used?) a hillbilly would have employed. You could have written:
“This woman is not presidential.”
“This woman is not presidential material.”
“This woman is not presidential caliber.”
Instead you chose a line that could have been delivered by Forrest Gump or Gomer Pyle.
If you are going to try to insult Palin’s intelligence, it would be well to brush up on your own grammar. It is quite enough to educate one such as yourself, a budding faux elitist, on things historical and political. I haven’t got time to go through the Guth book with you.