Good point. It's LAO worth noting that Ronald Reagan was eerily similar to Mitt Romney when Reagan was governor of California. His track record in that post was very liberal compared to his tenure in the White House.
California is a leftist state -- and has been for at least as long as I've been alive.
Thanks for pointing out that Reagan was in many ways a center-left California governor.
I was not aware of that myself until recently when, here at FR, someone posted a detailed list of un-Conservative things that Reagan had done and said while in Sacramento.