True; Reagan was unique. But he didn’t pussyfoot around, and he wiped up.
I don’t buy the idea that independents are turned off by straight talk.
well I was at a family reunion this weekend. Lots of people, politically the center-of-mass is right of center. Many right-leaning independents and what I call run-of-the-mill GOP’ers. Most don’t like the strident talk (I hear a lot of “Why-can’t-we-all-get-along?”) and it was a lot of women were voicing that so maybe the good cop bad cop approach is right.