[Hostage]

I agree, GHW Bush was a poor choice from the beginning.

Reagan didn’t want him as VP and the choice boiled down to Gerald Ford or Bush and still Reagan confronted his advisers with questions of who else?

Bush had been Director of the CIA and given today’s war between the Obama CIA and the NSA, I would rule out any living breathing humanoid with CIA experience as a candidate for President.

While Reagan didn’t have a lot of choices, he also failed to prepare for a successor. Trump, as a CEO of many large companies and as an overseer of many CEOs put in to run his businesses, was responsible to have successors waiting in the wings groomed to take over when nevessary.

The good news today is that Trump has stated last year that there are successors in the wings to follow him as POTUS. So God help us pray that we will not see a Reagan-Bush catastrophe and instead we will see a very capable successor to POTUS 45.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Trump has stated last year that there are successors in the wings to follow him as POTUS.

I'd love to know who. Frankly I can't see any on the horizon.

Reagan apparently wanted Paul Laxalt to be his running mate but came under extreme pressure from the party establishment to pick Bush. At the time they viewed Reagan almost as suspiciously as they view Trump today.

[Romans Nine]

Kemp was Reagan’s choice.
HW was a compromise with the establishment.

[DesertRhino]

“Reagan didn’t want him as VP and the choice boiled down to Gerald Ford or Bush”

Yes, Reagan could have anyone he wanted...of course, as long as they were involved in the JFK assassination, or the window dressing Warren commission.

[TBP]

He should hve picked Kemp or Crane or someone like them.