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...THAT CHOICE QUOTE IS FROM The Triumph of Politics, David Stockman's 1986 memoir of life in the Reagan Administration. As Ronald Reagan's first Budget Director, Stockman helped produce the huge deficits that followed Reagan's election on the promise of a balanced budget. Then Stockman ratted out his colleagues in a magazine interview and in his book (it seems they had made no serious attempt to cut spending) and moved to Wall Street, where he quietly got very rich and sank from history...
...least a term or two. So why do Justices, legally sophisticated and surely familiar with their own minds, change at all? Some experts say it's the political environment (Chief Justice Warren Burger, appointed by Richard Nixon, was most liberal when Jimmy Carter was President and most conservative under Ronald Reagan). Others say Justices particularly skilled in persuasion sway their more malleable brethren. A more hopeful theory is that cases are so thoroughly briefed and argued by the time they reach the court that the truly compelling side, regardless of ideology, wins out. In other words, Justices often abandon ideology...
When some Republicans look at former Tennessee Senator Fred Thompson, what they see is the glory that was Reagan. "Fred Thompson, like Ronald Reagan, has the ability to bring conservative principles to the Oval Office," promises a draft-Thompson website. But there is another resemblance: Thompson, like Reagan before him, belongs to the Screen Actors Guild...
...past. That's especially evident when those parties look to the future. As Republicans and Democrats focus on November 2008, it's clear each of them yearns to nominate a second coming of its beau ideal, the figure it has most admired in recent decades. For Republicans, that's Ronald Reagan. For Democrats, it's Robert Kennedy...
...Bobby Kennedy vs. Ronald Reagan - it's the grand matchup we were denied. They debated once, mostly about Vietnam, on a 1967 CBS telecast that featured Reagan in Sacramento, Calif., and Kennedy in New York City answering questions from students in London. (It was generally agreed that Reagan bested Kennedy, who asked afterward, "Who the f___ got me into this?") Who would not have relished a repeat confrontation between the conservative champion and the liberal prophet? Perhaps in October, when Thompson and Obama stand across the stage from each other, the hopes and dreams of both parties riding on their...