Sarah Palin: We need another lifeguard like Reagan to rescue us from malaise

(By Ed Morrissey, Hot Air) - Like Sarah Palin, I came of age in the era of Ronald Reagan, although for me, that process began more in 1976 as a 13-year-old fascinated by national politics than four years later as a high-school graduate wondering if I’d get the same opportunities as previous generations.  By that time, we had experienced a lost economic decade, on top of which we added the humiliations of the Iran hostage crisis and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.  Reagan promised a new morning in America to a nation desperate to wake up from what looked to be a nationwide nightmare of endless decline.  Palin aptly recalls Reagan’s youth and his work as a lifeguard as a metaphor for his two-term presidency...