Reagan was a broadcaster.
I still don't understand why anybody would have "qualms" about somebody's accent. JFKs "Cuber", for example, didn't seem to be a concern.
Similarly, I don't understand why a candidate is somehow offensive simply because they like country music.
Nor do I see the point in objecting to a candidate because they didn't graduate from a "good school". Reagan, as you know, graduated from Eureka College -- hardly a paragon of the Ivy League.
Fact is, most of the nation's problems trace to the legacy of Ivy League graduates -- like the "Best and the Brightest" of the Viet Nam era, Bill Clinton and the current catastrophe. Meanwhile, some of our very best presidents never went to college (see Truman, Harry).
It's as if Free Republic has become a home for wayward snobs (present company excluded).
True. Good points. I’m far more concerned about a candidate’s policies than where he or she went to college. As SP keeps repeating, solving our country’s problems takes common sense and not the overthinking that comes with attempts to reengineer society.
I just know that the reason Obama won is because he energized people and got them all out to vote for him. Sarah has the potential to do that, and she already has done that to us on the right. To get the “Obama youth” if you will, (assuming that they aren’t already disillusioned enough not to bother voting in 2012), Sarah needs to be “cooler,” and her accent just isn’t the coolest. I have overheard an alarming amount of “I just can’t stand the way she talks,” during discussions of SP, and I don’t want something like that to keep her from winning an election. Yes, the accent is superficial, but it’s also getting negative attention and invites mockery. Anything that might stand between her and a successful 2012 race should be addressed.