McCain must likewise never allow himself to get involved with any business partners as untrustworthy as the Keating Five, an enterprise in which he was strongly involved as the senator representing Arizona constituent Charles Keating, the fraudulent operator leading the enterprise.

When Sarah Palin, someone so clueless that she was unable to supply the name of one newspaper she read, quoted Reagan in her debate appearance, what she didn't tell the nation's viewers who were tuned in was the context in which Reagan's comment was made.

The comment expressed Reagan's fear that we would, if we did not wake up as a nation,  have to explain to our children and grandchildren how America`s freedoms were lost.  Palin did not explain that the comment was made in a speech Reagan delivered expressing the loss of freedom America would sustain if Medicare became a reality.

Reagan also delivered numerous speeches and cut a record that became a favorite in right wing circles about the dangers of Social Security.  In the manner of then right wing hero Barry Goldwater believed that at the very least Social Security should be made voluntary.