nomination. what are professional republicans rooting for when they look at the democratic field? do they want joe biden to get in? they want bernie sanders, i think. be careful what you root for, right? the democrats wanted reagan in 80. give us that actor. he will be easy. be careful what you root for. the one sort of advantage of having this huge field on the republican side is that hillary doesn t know who to go after and republicans have had the benefit of sort of, you know, knowing. it is going to be hillary. now that is looking more dubious. so, i think the republicans have their hands full. a lot of people think joe biden is a joke. they make fun of him. all of his gaffes. he said that obama is clean and articulate. but joe biden is likable. if you watch the debate he had with paul ryan in 2012, he can throw elbows, too.
households are watching and saying he gets education and my kids. i find those two things fascinating. matt lewis, what are republicans rooting for? we know democrats have been rooting for donald trump to continue to dominate the republican side. they d love to see him get the nomination. what are professional republicans rooting for when they look at the democratic field? do they want joe biden to get in? they want bernie sanders, i think. be careful what you root for, right? the democrats wanted reagan in 80. give us that actor. he will be easy. be careful what you root for. the one sort of advantage of having this huge field on the republican side is that hillary doesn t know who to go after and republicans have had the benefit of sort of, you know, knowing. e it is going to be hillary. now that is looking more dubious. so, i think the republicans have their hands full.
joined the staff, except he gote an even more intriguing offer. as a speech writer for vice president walter mondale. that lasted six months. when we got totally crushed in the general election, i got a call from the new republic and they said, we think you re unemployed now. would you like to come work for us? i said yes, rightyoo away. i started on the day reagan wasn sworn in, that s the first day i started. the new president was promising big changes. even starting the world anew. reagan s inaugural truly signaled a great clash of ideas. in this present crisis, government is not the solutionri to our problem. government is the problem. and the new republic was right in the midst of it.epu well, it was overwhelmingly liberal. the writers were the best of that era.li i wabes still a democrat at thea time, traditional liberal democrat, great society liberal.
blank. left it blank?el but if i had been the swingbl vote, i would have obviously haw voted for reagan. it was a turning point in his transition from the political left to the political right. just a few months after the election, i wrote something called reagan doctrine. it was a time magazine column and it was provocative. for a while, he had praised reagan on a number of foreign policy issues. he was now crediting him with a breakthrough insight that changed the calculus of the cola war. i realized what reagan had done without a great master plan was to challenge what at the time was called the brezhnev doctrine and that was whenever we take over a country, it s ours and all of a sudden, whatci reagan had done had challenged that andu don t get tos keep what you got. we re going to challenge your possession wherever they are. i thought this is a really goodo
about reagan. he had no neeutd to show howd smart he was. he knew exactly what i was asking. he didn t want to talk about it. if you thought he was a dunce, he didn t care because he knewc he want. it would also be some time before charles krauthammer embraced a conservative domestic policy, taxes, welfare, small government, and otherl reaganesque sins. it took me about aer decade. i was skeptical of tax cuts. i was skeptical of smaller government at the beginning. and then by the end of the 80si i hadnn begun to change. what happened? the empirical evidence. as a doctor i had been trained in impeer cal evidence. if the empirical evidence. if the treatment is killing your patients, you stop the treatment. i began to look and to think about whether the view i had of a social democratic society like they had in europe was the right way and i sort of i moved gradually to the idea of a more limited society, smaller government. by that time, his world was really falling int