Doherty on Reagan vs. Palin

From Reason's Brian Doherty (hat tip: Chuck Muth)...

Ronald Reagan was a great populist communicator, to be sure. But he was no Sarah Palin. He had decades of immersion in a serious set of ideas about markets and how they work. Palin on the national stage is mostly experienced in stumbling through platitudes about low taxes and government not working, and whipping up resentment against the contemptuous elites out to get her.