Michael Reagan: Welcome Back, Dad ( Sarah Palin )

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.

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.

In one blockbuster of a speech, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin resurrected my Dad's indomitable spirit and sent it soaring above the convention center, shooting shock waves through the cynical media's assigned spaces and electrifying the huge audience with the kind of inspiring rhetoric we haven't heard since my Dad left the scene.

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.

This guy is so lucky. Basically, he’s the only one who could write this article. It’s funny, but I don’t see Chelsea Clinton writing an article like this 30 years from now.

Here’s how I’ve been bumping Palin/Obama threads. Sung to the tune of “Oh! Susanna, don’t you cry for me.” .... “Oh, no Bama, please don’t lie to me... for I’m off to Free Republic with a laptop on my knee.”

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2073903/posts?page=31#31

“Another bad comparison?”

You may not like the comparison but that is just the facts.

Sarah Palin has accomplished more politically by this time in her life than RR had. And by the time Palin reaches the age RR was when he was elected governor of CA, she may very well be POTUS.

As Sgt. Joe Friday used to say “just the facts”

I compare her as a diamond and obama quartz.

Style over substance. He is like a quartz rock. Neat looking on the outside with a dynamic pattern. But if you crack it, like Palin did, it virtually disintegrates into a chaotic mess.

Palin is a diamond. Pretty, clear and extremely tough if not impossible to break.

Our country is a proverbial ring finger. When comes time to dress this finger, what do people put on it?

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