Governor was the end of that road, and after the vice-Presidential run, she is running for President, Governor Palin has more experience than Mitt Romney, and more than many Presidential candidates.
More importantly for conservatives, is not whether we have found another Reagan resume, but whether we have found another Reagan, the man, it seems that we have in many ways. Governor Palin is the closest thing to Reagan that we have seen since, or before Reagan.
She does indeed have nine more weeks of experience in being a vice-Presidential candidate than Romney does.
Romney has a year and half more experience as an elected executive than she does.
But we're not really talking about Romney - who is not a conservative and not a very strong candidate.
We are talking about Reagan - and the main thing about Reagan is that he was a real conservative who was still able to win over a ton of Midwestern and even Northeastern Democrats - he won New York, New Jersey, Vermont and Massachusetts in 1980 despite the vote being split in those states by liberal Republican defector John Anderson. Reagan won in the Kennedy stronghold of South Boston.
Palin, who is - despite some of her critics' claims - also a real conservative, does not have that same crossover appeal.
That's the difference. She knows it. And that's what this whole Sarah Palin's Alaska/Facebook/Dancing With The Stars/Twitter/America By Heart book tour is all about.