I would say that at this point her political grand strategy is ahead of Reagan’s based upon her invaluable experience on the 2008 ticket and her knowledge of how the RINO establishment works.
If she runs and wins the primary battle, it's going to be interesting to see what she does. Reagan bent over backwards to accommodate the establishment in his effort to unite the party. The courting of Gerald Ford, cozying up to Henry Kissinger and finally picking Bush as his VP may have been what he felt he needed to do to win the election. Will Sarah feel the same way if she gets to that position? We'll see.
“The courting of Gerald Ford, cozying up to Henry Kissinger and finally picking Bush as his VP may have been what he felt he needed to do to win the election.”
I have often wondered if it ever occurred to Reagan that, in hindsight, he could have won just as big without selecting Bush as VP. I would be curious to know Ed Meese’s take on it, since he is the only real “old Reagan hand” who is still with us and might be able to give us some insight into the Gipper’s mind on this. (my view is that Reagan probably thought to himself...”You know, I gave them Bush and it still didn’t stop the RINO rump group, with Mary Dent Crisp in tow, from deserting me in favor of John Anderson.”) It certainly made Bush his heir and Bush dismantled so much of the Reagan revolution and purged so many of the old Reagan hands that I wonder if RR had some regrets.
I hope that, if SP does vanquish the Establishment, she keeps this in mind and remembers that she really doesn’t need these people. There aren’t that many of them and they will never stop hating her. Ever. They certainly hated Reagan right up until he left office and the revisionists have been busy making him into a “big tenter” ever since.
[BTW, Thanks for the compliment. That is high praise coming from you, since your posts, especially on Reagan, are very accurate and make me remember things I had forgotten. Keep them coming.]