Exactly...Republicans are expected to be the grown-ups.
The Amy thing did have a certain down hominess about it. Amy was a picture of America, at least the ones who never had much money to worry about losing to hyperflation in the first place. If Jimmuh hadn't been such an absolutely incompetent lout, the gambit could have helped his appeal in the face of Reagan. As it was, 49 of 50 states said to Jimmuh "we've had enough."