re: #177 HappyWarrior

Yeah this is a president who after all was willing to talk with Mikhail Gorbachev (the way Obama gets hammered for acknowledging the importance of diplomacy, can you imagine?) or the fact that Reagan didn’t treat his opponents like they were evil incarnate, he and Tip O’Neill were famously friends after 5 PM as I believe Tip put it in his memoirs, and the biggie, this is a president who actually gave amnesty to illegals. Can’t see that going over too well with the Know Nothings. It’s the idea of Reagan that matters more than the realty if who Ronald Reagan was.

Ironically, the most Raygun-like candidate in today’s GOP is probably Huntsman, who has the least chance of going anywhere.