Person Of The Year?

National Review's leading intellectual for the next generation compares Palin to Reagan and Jefferson, urges Time magazine to consider Palin for year end honors, wishes Palin had been at the top of the ticket, and decribes some of the Palin-love on the National Review cruise:

On the lighter side, one foreign-policy expert showed up for a panel in a towel (but fully clothed underneath) in an act of solidarity with Palin (referencing the now debunked post-election story that she once appeared to top campaign officials in a towel). What is it about Sarah?

For many folks on the Right, she represented an influx of social conservatism in the campaign. All she had to do was arrive at the scene with her son Trig to demonstrate her pro-life bona fides. Some estimated 90 percent of Americans faced with the knowledge that they might give birth to a child with Down Syndrome wouldn’t have made the choice she and her husband, Todd, did to let the child live.

So Trig was the critical presidential qualification for the theocons. You just gotta have faith.

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