Reagan was a political phenom. During his 2 terms, downticket Dems ran campaign ads showing themselves making nice with him. Palin is great on the issues, but has nothing like Reagan's political charisma or skill. She has Republicans asking her not to endorse them. Democrats feature her as a bogeyman.
I like her positions. I just don't think she's got the political chops to get the overall electorate behind the GOP the way Reagan did. My great fear is that we'll nominate her in 2016 and experience a Barry Goldwater-style blowout defeat, which gave LBJ the opportunity to impose the Great Society programs that suck huge sums of money from taxpayers today. Note that Kennedy's successful effort in 1965 in crafting legislation to import a new electorate from Latin America, Asia and Africa had its roots in Goldwater's downticket drag on the GOP. The genesis of the GOP's recent political setbacks lies in that 1965 legislation.
Link on the Republicans asking her not to endorse them? Because I probably post 60% of the Palin threads here and I've never heard that.
You’re full of it! You can have your opinion about Sarah not being Presidential material but nowhere has anybody suggested that Republicans don’t want her endorsement, heck alot of people desire her endorsement because its like gold in getting through the primaries
Nobody was going to defeat the just assassinated JFK’s vice-president in 1964.
With 34 Senate seats and 176 Congressmen, just how well did you expect the Republicans to do during the national mourning of JFK in the 1964 election and in 1965 legislation?
The 1965 Immigration Act, as so much legislation after the assassination, was done in JFK’s memory, the democrats owned everything back then.
You go back to 1964 to make a case against conservatives, instead of going back to 1980, and you ignore the 2012 rino debacle where the only good GOP news came from Governor Palin.
“However, if there is one man who can take the most credit for the 1965 act, it is John F. Kennedy. Kennedy seems to have inherited the resentment his father Joseph felt as an outsider in Boston’s WASP aristocracy. He voted against the McCarran-Walter Act of 1952, and supported various refugee acts throughout the 1950s. In 1958 he wrote a book, A Nation of Immigrants, which attacked the quota system as illogical and without purpose, and the book served as Kennedy’s blueprint for immigration reform after he became president in 1960. In the summer of 1963, Kennedy sent Congress a proposal calling for the elimination of the national origins quota system. He wanted immigrants admitted on the basis of family reunification and needed skills, without regard to national origin. After his assassination in November, his brother Robert took up the cause of immigration reform, calling it JFK’s legacy. In the forward to a revised edition of A Nation of Immigrants, issued in 1964 to gain support for the new law, he wrote, “I know of no cause which President Kennedy championed more warmly than the improvement of our immigration policies.” Sold as a memorial to JFK, there was very little opposition to what became known as the Immigration Act of 1965.”