Reagan used to be a Democrat. Romney never was.
Reagan entered political life as a Conservative in the 1960s. Willard was raised a Socialist by his leftist RINO parents. He never was a Conservative, isn’t now, and never will be.
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“””Reagan used to be a Democrat. Romney never was.”””
Romney left the Republican party because of Reagan, and became a registered independent, he eventually started supporting democrat candidates, doing democrat fund raising, voting democrat, and fund raising for Planned Parenthood. He did all this long after the left and right were clearly defined.
Now take a look at Reagan, decades before the Reagan Revolution, and the Vietnam war and the 1960s and abortion wars and Jimmy Carter.
You mean 8 years of military service Captain Reagan, who by the second half of the 1940s was already starting to be seen as a communist fighting conservative, testifying to Congress and naming names, working with the FBI, having to carry a gun for self defense from the left, Reagan?
The last time Reagan voted Dem for President was 1948, for Romney it was 1992, By 1952 Reagan was campaigning for Republicans as a “Democrat for Eisenhower”, he kept using that anti-liberal, conservative club until 1962.
In 1952 Reagan was campaigning for Republicans like Eisenhower, who he campaigned for again in 1956, and then campaigned for Nixon against JFK in 1960, already having earned a reputation as an active speaker for conservatism for years.
The Reagan who formally registered Republican in 1962 and spoke at the Goldwater convention in 1964? Romney was already anti-Goldwater and anti-Reagan. Reagan was famous for his conservatism before the Vietnam War, and the Great Society, Roe V Wade, the abortion wars, Jimmy Carter, decades of Cold War defeats, and the radical 1960s, before the Reagan Revolution and the Contract with America, and Clinton, and the Gore election of 2000, Mitt Romney would not even register Republican during the Reagan Presidency or vote for him. Romney, at almost age 60, had a stroke (or something) and suddenly, unexplainedly, became a totally different person around 2006, merely to run for national office.
Reagan and Romney have nothing in common.