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...unexpected nominee also as a result of an authentic internal debate about its direction. Republicans continued to struggle with the legacy of F.D.R. after World War II, generally trying to restrain New Deal programs rather than repudiate them. The right wing of the party was largely muzzled until Ronald Reagan won his third race for the nomination and ushered in a new paradigm of supply-side tax cuts and more conservative policies...
...earlier, McCain had been confronted by a woman who upbraided him for not being a "real" Republican because of his dealings with Kennedy and Feingold. "I reminded her about Ronald Reagan standing in the Rose Garden with Tip O'Neill, a liberal Democrat, pledging to fix Social Security," McCain told me later, with some satisfaction. "Even a real Republican needs to work with Democrats if you're going to tackle things like Social Security." McCain remains the rare Republican candidate who has attempted bipartisanship in Washington. But that doesn't mean he isn't stone conservative on most things...
...like priests, schooled from an early age in the orthodoxies, mysteries and controversies of the constitutional faith. Many of them have been enfolded from an early age in the ideological apparatus of the right or the left. As young Justice Department lawyers in the early days of Ronald Reagan, Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito played on the same volleyball team, and both men were quickly marked for big things and nurtured for the bench. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's cocoon was the American Civil Liberties Union. Stephen Breyer's inculcation came on Senator Edward Kennedy's Judiciary Committee staff...
...civil rights slid into special preferences (for everyone, it seemed, but white men), and Vietnam slouched, all too often, into reflexive pacifism and a distrust of the military. Is it possible now, with the Republicans diving into foolish militarism and the indulgence of Thou-shalt-not killjoys, that Reagan Democrats might be tempted to come home...
...also a matter of style, of political correctness. Haggard sensed a certain reluctance among the Hillarians to embrace his endorsement-in part, I imagine, because he's not shy about saying that one of the biggest things Hillary has going for her is Bill, who ranks up with Reagan in the Haggard pantheon and not only because the former President used to have a pickup truck with Astroturf in the back. "He cared about this country, about our problems," Haggard said, with a twinkle. "And I figure that whatever she doesn't know, he does...