Sarah Palin is 'the new Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan'

[emad]

American conservatives have reacted with near ecstasy to the Republican convention speech by Governor Sarah Palin of Alaska, comparing John McCain's running mate with Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan.
By Toby Harnden in St Paul
Last Updated: 10:51PM BST 04 Sep 2008

"A star is born. She stuck the knife in with a big smile, a kind of 'Make my day' look," said Michael Barone, conservative columnist and editor of "The Almanac of American Politics".

"Forty-four years ago, an actor named Ronald Reagan gave a speech supporting Barry Goldwater and launching his own political career that was known ever after, by his ever increasing group of followers, simply as 'The Speech', wrote Richard Starr in the conservative Weekly Standard.

"If the McCain-Palin team pulls off an upset in two months, the performance we just saw by Governor Sarah Palin will be talked about in the same hushed and reverential tones."

In a column entitled "Welcome Back, Dad", Michael Reagan, adopted son of the late president, wrote: "I saw my Dad reborn; only this time he's a she. And what a she!"

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/uselection2008/republicans/2683692/Sarah-Palin-is-the-new-Margaret-Thatcher-and-Ronald-Reagan.html

[Taverner]

1. Funny that Ron Reagan Jr says Nancy hates this ticket and is voting Obama

[Frances]

4. Actually Ron said that Nancy likes Obama

but he didn't say she was voting for him

[Taverner]

5. ..

ahhh true

[emad]

2. This may come to haunt her one day very soon.

Thatcher and Reagan still etiolated.

Just wait for the UK to declassify all those terrible cold war secrets as soon as QE2 pops her clogs.

Might not seem such a compliment in the aftermath.

[Cassandra]

3. Doesn't take much, does it?

They ask so little.....and they get so little.

[summer borealis]

6. For these nazi/clowns, no

[madrchsod]

7. bullshit

Reagan and Thatcher were conservatives but they did have principals.these republicans today have none

[Frances]

8. I liked what someone else called her

Tonya Harding with a speech writer

I did not like Reagan, but he wasn't a religious nutcase. He also had more class.

[DavidDvorkin]

9. All surface, no substance

Parroting rightwing vileness with some clever phrases. Appealing packaging of a vicious interior.

When does the dementia start?