To protect themselves from conservative victories that could clean the filthy house of bloated political pork budgets, those that love big government on both the "moderate right" and all of the left must keep up a continuous drum beat of slander and distortion against Mr Reagan or any other Mr Smith who would go to Washington.
That is why they (GOP-e) hate and fear Sarah Palin. They are concerned that she would do what she did in Alaska, clean up the corruption in her own party along with the opposition.