A debate moderated along these lines would have highlighted a real, interesting philosophical candidate divide between the outmoded 'BoomerCons' (boomer conservatives) and the young guns who 'know what time it is.'
Wednesday's second Republican presidential primary debate bore a striking similarity to the first debate one month earlier.
But a big part of the problem was on the moderator and host venue side. Given the location of the debate at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and host network Fox Business' playing of famous clips from the Reagan presidency, the "missed opportunity ...
Reagan also famously said, in a 1975 interview with Reason magazine, that "the very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism." Reagan also famously got bamboozled in the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act amnesty, which legalized millions of illegal aliens and promised border enforcement measures that never came. Have the Republican candidates today learned from this sordid history, or do they still hold out naive hope that some sort of "comprehensive immigration reform" grand compromise is achievable?
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