This is the one thing I wish Palin fans would stop. She is not Ronald Reagan. To say so diminishes his legacy, and limits hers. Sarah Palin is Sarah Palin, plain and simple. She will be defined and remember for who SHE is, not who she reminds us of.
Agreed. It`s suffocating to be constantly compared to giants and prevents people from seeing a person as they are—each move gets compared to someone who`s already attained legendary status. Reagan and Thatcher weren`t the `next` anybody, they were unique. That`s what we need now, unique originals, not retreads which never live up to the hype others try to force on them.
Thats right.
Just like Stephen Strasburg is not Nolan Ryan..because he can throw 101 mph.
Everyone likes to compare everything to the past. Sarah Palin is Sarah Palin.
and with due respect, Ronald Reagan is dead. His time came and went. Just like mine will, yours will and Sarah Palin’s will. Lets live in the here and now.
Welcome Back, Dad
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, radio talk show host and son of President Ronald Reagan