Pundits are calling Sarah Palin ‘the new Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan’ :

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!”

After Mrs Palin, 44 and Alaska governor for just 20 months, accepted the vice-presidential nomination in St Paul with a tub-thumping speech, conservative commentator Larry Kudlow asked whether “we’re not witnessing the Western frontier version of Margaret Thatcher”.

He added: “She connected really well with middle-class working folks, both in cultural and social terms, which is no small feat: values matter and the Democrats are in trouble here - big-time. The more they go after Palin culturally, as they have already, the more trouble they’ll fall into.”

One blogger described her as “Margaret Thatcher with five kids and a Klondike drawl” while Jonah Goldberg of the conservative “National Review” enthused: “She was put on this earth to do two things: kill caribou and kick butt. She’s all out of caribou.”

Even if the McCain/Palin ticket fails to beat the Obama Nation this November, we have not seen the last of Sarah Palin. After the speech she gave, she became a name in the Republican party. And after all, all you need is one great speech…right Barack.