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To: St_Thomas_Aquinas
" She may be inferior to Reagan in some ways, but in others, she will be superior."

Okay, I'll bite...in what ways can Sarah Palin be superior to Ronald Reagan?
156 posted on 12/31/2010 5:15:51 PM PST by magritte ("There are moments, Jeeves, when one asks oneself "Do trousers matter?")
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To: magritte

family issues. she is more involved with her family. a great family,.


157 posted on 12/31/2010 5:16:56 PM PST by se_ohio_young_conservative (Palin or 3rd party... no exceptions !)
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To: magritte

Reagan has already served two terms.


163 posted on 12/31/2010 5:25:56 PM PST by usmcobra (.Islam: providing Live Targets for United States Marines since 1786!)
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To: magritte
Okay, I'll bite...in what ways can Sarah Palin be superior to Ronald Reagan?

She's willing to fight the lamestream media to the death. She's already locked in a life and death battle with them. As far as I can discern, she's determined that they are the enemy, and she's treating them as such.

Her strategy to do an end-run around them, via her Facebook postings, Fox appearances, and TLC show, has been a smashing success. We know this because within the last month, both Time and The NY Times published lengthy and fair articles about her. It's obvious that she laid down some ground rules before the interviews, since the tone was an inversion of their typical treatment of her. The take-away: the LSM needs her; she doesn't need them.

To be fair to Reagan, the current alternatives to the LSM were not available to him. And he did his best to brush off the media, a classic example being Reagan's "I can't hear what you're saying" brush-off of Sam Donaldson, as he walked to Air Force One.

Even so, given Reagan's genial personality, I don't think he would be fighting the media as ferociously as Sarah is. I can't imagine him referring to them, frequently and publicly, as "the lamestream media." Sarah's picking a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel. That takes a lot of guts.

I attribute Sarah's media savvy to her stint as a sports broadcaster. She saw what goes on behind the scenes. She knows the devil she's dealing with. And she knows that she has to kill it, for her sake, and for the sake of the country.

181 posted on 12/31/2010 5:44:33 PM PST by St_Thomas_Aquinas
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