It just came to me while looking at the pictures posted on the links above in another post: Theodore Roosevelt (only a lot better looking).
McCain has said TR is his model. Looks like he found someone who is not entirely unlike his hero.
From The Anchoress’ blog:
Was exchanging emails with Deacon Greg, who is not especially interested in politics. He wrote of Palins speech:
Im watching the replay on my computer on msnbc I love that she used that ship in a harbor analogy and that she said politicians should have a servants heart. Right after I was ordained and starting my blog, a deacon wrote to me and said Every day say this prayer, Lord, give me a servants heart.
I had noticed, and appreciated, that line, too - it resonated for me in a different way; I remember being young and watching Give em Hell, Harry, the one-man show about Harry S Truman, and really being struck by his notion of a president or any office-holder as a servant of the public. Most of our politicians seem to have forgotten that, these days, and recently, watching Pelosi and company tell Americans that their opinions on drilling were irrelevant, Ive been writing that too many are uninterested in actually serving us. So, yes, I was thrilled to hear Palin say it.
But Greg, predictably, helps us to see the profundity of the role of servant, by looking at the Palins youngest child, wonderfully named Trig Paxson Van Palin, whose very life is suggestive that Palin (and her husband) truly has a servants heart.
http://theanchoressonline.com/2008/08/29/sarah-palin-the-servants-heart/
Yep! I thought exactly the same thing.
A Female copy of Teddy Roosevelt.
Probably the best President that this country has ever had.