On foreign policy he was, as far from Reagan as you can get.
If you check Christian Science Monitors Empire Builders-Neoconservatives and their blueprint for US Power, ten of the twelve, Elliott Abrams, Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle, Douglas Feith, John Bolton (the token non-Jew), Robert Kagan, Michael Ledeen, Lewis Libby, William Kristol, and Frank Gaffney Jr., served in the Reagan administration. Norman Podhoretz was an advisor to USAID, if he was paid that makes 11.
Clearly the neocon hijacking of the Bush administration was the blowback of the Reagan administration.
Yeah, I remember that they - the neo-cons - were big for Reagan, for obvious reason. They all supported freedom. Ron Paul thinks freedom is so important that we make sure that we keep it to ourselves even if the slightest efforts would spread it elsewhere. Reagan, and great thinkers like Norman Podhoretz, recognized that the threats from Communism to freedom in one place was nearly always going to endanger all free nations. Today, Podhoretz continues this noble struggle in his efforts to help people see clearly the threat posed by al Qaeda. Of course, to Run Paul and his “real” conservatives al Qaeda isn’t that much of a threat and what harm it’s done is our fault. That’s a long way from Reagan.