I think Palin is a lot like Reagan. Like Reagan she has had a real life outside of politics. Like Reagan she came to politics as an outsider. Her political career in Alaska was motivated by the problems she saw in the system and on her belief that she could solve those problems. I think a fair comparison is Palin at 45 to Reagan at 45. At 45 Reagan was still a Democrat. At 45 Reagan was the President of the Screen Actor’s Guild, certainly not a more important position than Alaska’s Governor. At 45 Reagan had not formulated his conservative philosophy or attempted to articulate it. At 45 Reagan was a common sense conservative just beginning to think about the governing implications of the conservative philosophy.
Palin is like Reagan in that she is an outsider not constrained by the conventional wisdom and not impressed by the leftist cant in our media and politics.
