General Discussion

Carter nailed Reagan and cutting or taxing Sicial Security. The Reagan team had no response so they came up with “there you go again” which is lauded as a great debate moment.

The young group of conservative writers created in the 90’s - Coulter, York, Goldberg, etc. - were basically required to at least mention it in a column if not writing a praising full article about it. This was the time of Lee Atwater where your worth as a political operative was tied to how far you’d go. Pre-Rove who turned it more animalistic. When Will got established on TV he wanted to clear his history so the same writers wrote pieces saying none of it was true.