That's the game. Recall their fictional Reagan -- the dimwitted warmonger who paled in comparison to the urbane, intelligent Gorbachev.
Meanwhile, the real Reagan had a photographic memory, wrote incisive essays, speeches and radio shows for years, then upon achieving the Presidency proceeded to do what his own aides thought impossible -- undermine and destroy the Soviet empire.
Bravo and ditto on Reagan. His detractors called him a 'dunderhead'. We should be so lucky that a man like that came along when he did. I am so thankful to have seen his presidency in my lifetime.