Reagan and Sarah have a lot in common--their ifaith, ntegrity, their humor, and understanding of the world where most of us live. She really needs to get a coach--not to make her into a stiff Gore type, but to learn pointers to connect better with the people who aren't listening now.
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You miss the meat of the story, though. Reagan spent years writing and giving public speeches tours for General Electric. As president of the SAG, he had also spent years in direct contention with the communists in Hollywood. It was during that time that he developed both his style and the basic philosophical grounding in what later became his signature issues.
Reagan and Sarah have a lot in common--their ifaith, ntegrity, their humor, and understanding of the world where most of us live. She really needs to get a coach--not to make her into a stiff Gore type, but to learn pointers to connect better with the people who aren't listening now.
She needs more than a coach. She needs to start developing the serious themes in her own words. It's rather difficult to imagine Sarah Palin giving -- much less writing -- a speech such as Reagan gave at Eureka College in 1957 (when he was Sarah Palin's age).
Or check out his speeches from the the 1964 campaign, which essentially started his political career. Reagan wrote his famous "Rendezvous with Destiny" speech himself.
That's not to say that Palin couldn't do it ... the thing is that she hasn't done it, and shows now signs of trying. The speeches she gives now are shallow. Her written essays are weak, and any deep thoughts they express are almost certain to be quotes from other people.
She has more serious things to deal with than an irritating manner of speaking -- though she needs to deal with that, too.
She needs to show she's more than just a pretty celebrity -- which, to most of the electorate, that's all she really is.