Palin is no Reagan.
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 to emerge and lead our party and our nation. I insisted that we'd never see his like again because he was one of a kind. I was wrong! Wednesday night I watched the Republican National Convention on television and there, before my very eyes, I saw my Dad reborn; only this time he's a she. And what a she! This was Ronald Reagan at his best -- the same Ronald Reagan who made the address known now solely as "The Speech," which during the Goldwater campaign set the tone and the agenda for the rebirth of the traditional conservative movement that later sent him to the White House for eight years and revived the moribund GOP. Welcome back, Dad, even if you're wearing a dress and bearing children this time around.
~Michael Reagan, conservative radio host, chairman of the Reagan Foundation and son of President Ronald Reagan
yeah, that is what they said about Reagan also. Reagan was a “nobody”.
That is true. RR was in the public eye for a long time, and was one of our greatest presidents. He was our iconic Cold Warrior. Truthfully there cannot be a comparison.
However, it can be said that Sarah Palin reminds many people of RR, including his son, Michael. Yet she is a politically-adept, modern conservative.
There will never be another Reagan because we live in a different world and the rules have changed. A strong conservative candidate will have to "do politicking" a lot differently than one 30 years ago would have done.
30 years is a generation. I like to think of Sarah as this generation's Ronald Reagan.