“Reagan entered political life as a Conservative in the 1960s”
Considering that he was born in 1911, he was in his 50-s at the time.
“Reagan began his political career as a liberal Democrat, admirer of Franklin D. Roosevelt, and an active supporter of New Deal policies. In the early 1950s, as his relationship with Republican actress Nancy Davis grew,[55][56] he shifted to the right and, while remaining a Democrat,”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Reagan#Early_political_career
If Reagan were running for office today, you would be trashing him.
Nope. Reagan had the Conservative record to match the rhetoric. Your boy ? Not so much. Willard, see, he governs Socialist and tells whatever group he's speaking to what they want to hear. Lies like a champ to all the rubes. See, n00b, I only go after frauds and liars like your Socialist idol. Y'know, those who have the public record to show their failure of leadership and lack of Conservative principles, morals and ethics. The stench from him and his supporters is overwhelming. Like a city dump in Tennessee in July.
Romney versus Reagan??
You mean Governor “Ronnie Raygun” (I lived in California for a while during his time) the right wing Governor of California, deeply hated by the left, and loved by the right, unlike failed one term (34% approval) Gov Romney, the man who hated Reagan and was purely liberal, and anti-right?
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.