The Corner

Re: Going Negative

Reagan also quipped about Pat Brown’s despicable attack that “John Wilkes Booth was a Democrat, I believe.”

My favorite Reagan slam on liberals from that period was his line: “A liberal’s idea of getting tough on crime is to give out longer suspended sentences.”

Or, during the Berkeley campus protests by the hippies in 1970: “I had a nightmare last night: I dreamed I owned a laundromat in Berkeley.”

Steven F. Hayward is senior resident scholar at the Institute of Governmental Studies, and a lecturer in both the law school and the political science department, at the University of California at Berkeley.
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