Creator-endowed life and liberty are authentic ideas, which, when protected by a written "people's" constitution limiting the power of their government, become a reality for millions of oppressed people from all the world. Witness America for its first 200 years!
Allowing silver-tongued orators to supplant "the people" and their constitutional limits on coercive government power by offering promises of handouts for all is a counterfeit idea and has led to oppressive taxation, debt, and slavery of people wherever it has been allowed.
Reagan understood that the "beacon of liberty" relies on enduring principles, called by the Founders, "self-evident" truths. More importantly, he could articulate those ideas!
Palin can read, study, and understand them. The fact that she has Levin's "Tyranny and Liberty" is a start, but there's nothing like reading the voluminous writings of the Founders themselves (available online) for incorporating them into one's own vocabulary.
If she does that, all the Far Left proponents of the "counterfeit ideas" will not be able to stop her from having a positive impact on the future of America!
She must be able to delineate and clarify, as Reagan did, why "socialized" medicine, for instance, is in opposition to America's founding principles, explaining the perhaps "unintended consequences" of allowing any government in the world to have that much power over the lives and property of its citizens. There is liberty for individuals, and then there is tyranny over individuals.
Yes. I really do miss what I think I remember of the Reagan Administration.