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• Saturday, November 29, 2008 06:19 AM

  @rainbirdreader

  I don't know enough about your local situation to make an informed response. I can only speak for myself, in saying I look forward to voting again for Sarah Palin from here in Indiana. If she isn't on the ballot the next time around in the presidential primary, I will write her name in anyway - unless she does a Shermanesque renunciation and endorses someone else.

  As far as Reagen is concerned, that's a mixed bag. I thought he was semi-senile throughout his second term. On the other hand, he was more formidable in his prime than either of the Bushes, or other nominees such as Dole. I don't think he had much of a common touch, either, after decades in Hollywood.

  I happen to like Palin's down to earth style, and not because it reflects some awful "dumbing down" process. When I drive the rural roads and small towns of my region, and think to myself who ought to be governing it, I like the idea of having someone "of" the people in charge. And, as Jon Stewart would say, big cities are just small towns crowded together. We could use someone with the hockey mom's (and now a soldier's mom's) perspective.

  When I see all the "professional" borrowing, spending, and warmaking that comes to us from Washington, I'm not alarmed by the prospect of having a leader who is "of" the people. It's the alternative which depresses me.

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