Nick would have no doubt been on the “Reagan is a lightweight actor” bus.
My qualifications for president in the age of corruption...
Courage
That was what I was thinking. Indeed, I said something similar up above. Reagan was a great thinker whom many portrayed as a lightweight. I recall some conservative columnists (Ann Coulter I think) pointing out that the media has ALWAYS portrayed Republican Presidents as Dumb, or simple.
They did it to Eisenhower, affable, but not a great thinker, Nixon they portrayed as corrupt, Ford was a bumbling fool, Reagan was a senile old man, HW Bush was out of touch, G W Bush was a simpleton, and so on.
That they constantly do it to Palin tells me whom they fear the most. They do not waste their time on Paul or Huckabee.