Posted on 09/05/2008 8:35:21 PM PDT by LdSentinal
SARAH Palin was hailed as “Ronald Reagan in a dress” yesterday — by the former President’s son.
Michael Reagan, 63, said watching the vice-presidential hopeful was like seeing “my dad reborn — only this time he’s a she”.
Palin’s stirring speech at the Republican convention on Wednesday night was watched by 40million people across the US.
And Michael, a broadcaster and writer whose father was President from 1981 to 1989 — said: “I’ve been trying to convince my fellow conservatives that they have been wasting their time in a fruitless quest for a new Ronald Reagan. I insisted he was one of a kind. I was wrong!”
Describing Palin’s speech as “electrifying”, he added: “Welcome back, Dad, even if you’re wearing a dress and bearing children this time around.”
The 44-year-old mum of five — dubbed the Pitbull in Lipstick after being chosen as John McCain’s running mate for the November 4 election — laid into Democrat candidate Barack Obama in St Paul, Minnesota.
Reagan added: “This was Ronald Reagan at his best. She proved she was everything, and even more, than John McCain told us.”
I’m calling BS on that statement.
I know what he meant but, man, that brings up a funky picture in my minds eye.
One is all the of the liberals who think that Michael Reagan couldn't possibly have a sense of humor....
Sarah’s not afraid to wear a dress.
Why does Hillary never wear a skirt or dress?
Who picked out Hillary’s wardrobe? I just wonder because there are different styles of pantsuits. All of Hillary’s were the same style, just different colors. And they sure didn’t flatter her figure and body type at all. Just an observation.
We should be thankful that her thighness doesn’t expose those babies to the light of day. Imagine the spider veins for one
And your pronouncement based on what?
Michael Reagan is smoking dope again.
Near the end of her speech, when she was landing haymaker after haymaker on Obama, I looked over at my wife and said, “I haven’t heard anything like this since Ronald Reagan.”
I might be proven wrong, but the Palin selection made me do something I swore I never would — I donated to McCain.
Sarah Palin is hot.
What kind of '80s music is in her i-pod??
The same reason a mule doesn't...
I just realized why the left REALLY doesn’t like Palin.
The answer: 16 years is a long time to wait to have a Democrat have another shot at the Presidency.
People would see the hooves.
Sarah looks good in a dress or skirt. I don’t think Hillary can make the same claim.
I have been wondering if some of the mainstream media cattiness about Sarah is because she is fit.
Let’s not get carried away. She is a rookie who hit a grand slam in game one of the World Series.
She has a lot of promise but it’s a bit premature to put her in the Hall of Fame just yet.
Consider this quirk of history:
It was the GOP Convention at the Cow Palace in San Francisco where Ronald Reagan made his political debut in 1964 (the year Sarah Palin was born) as he delivered what became known as ‘The Speech’, as Senator Barry Goldwater of Arizona became the nominee that year.
Fast forward 44 years.
Governor Sarah Palin makes HER national political debut at a GOP Convention that has just nominated another Senator from Arizona as the Republican nominee for President.
But this time, there isn’t going to be any damn 44 state blowout by an incumbent Democrat dirtbag like LB effin’ J, running scurrilous commercials portraying his opponent as a nuclear warmonger.
IMO, she’s way out front of any of the others in both parties.
We will see, I love Sarah Palin, however Ronald Reagan was consistent in good times and bad...RR kept up his message until he penetrated the US body politic.
I would encourage RR fans to compare Reagan’s Signature “A Time for Choosing” Speech with Sarah Palin’s Speech and make up their own minds:
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/ronaldreaganatimeforchoosing.htm
Some excerpts:
“We have so many people who can’t see a fat man standing beside a thin one without coming to the conclusion the fat man got that way by taking advantage of the thin one. So they’re going to solve all the problems of human misery through government and government planning. Well, now, if government planning and welfare had the answer — and they’ve had almost 30 years of it — shouldn’t we expect government to read the score to us once in a while? Shouldn’t they be telling us about the decline each year in the number of people needing help? The reduction in the need for public housing?
But the reverse is true. Each year the need grows greater; the program grows greater. We were told four years ago that 17 million people went to bed hungry each night. Well that was probably true. They were all on a diet. But now we’re told that 9.3 million families in this country are poverty-stricken on the basis of earning less than 3,000 dollars a year. Welfare spending [is] 10 times greater than in the dark depths of the Depression. We’re spending 45 billion dollars on welfare. Now do a little arithmetic, and you’ll find that if we divided the 45 billion dollars up equally among those 9 million poor families, we’d be able to give each family 4,600 dollars a year. And this added to their present income should eliminate poverty. Direct aid to the poor, however, is only running only about 600 dollars per family. It would seem that someplace there must be some overhead.”
RR on youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pbp0hur9RU
Sarah Palin:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiD1X8baE9Q
Keep in mind my FRiends, RR spoke in the midst of Defeat Sarah is speaking in the midst of 60 days before the election.
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