[Dr. Sivana]

The late William F. Buckley could have easily made a fool of any of the Republican Candidates in a debate. He was a master at debate. However he might not have been a good president because of this.

Reagan cleaned Buckley's clock in the Panama Canal debate circa 1977. It helped that Reagan was right and Buckley was wrong.

[truthguy]

Reagan cleaned Buckley's clock in the Panama Canal debate circa 1977. It helped that Reagan was right and Buckley was wrong.

Absolute rubbish. I watched that debate and to me Buckley's team won (George Will was Buckley's partner) that debate. You could have interpreted it as a Reagan win but nobody could have believed that Reagan cleaned Buckley's clock.

And BTW, it was Buckley's policy that was adopted. We did turn the Canal over to Panama (with provisions) and there has been no negative ramifications, at least so far (despite the Manuel Noriega mess). So Reagan's predictions did not in fact come true. Now I'm a Reagan fan and voted for him twice, but in this case it was Buckley who was right.