You're an idiot if you believe that.
He did nothing to stop abortions.
You couldn't possibly be more wrong.
He did not veto tripling of federal spending in 8 years.
The ONLY people who say this are non-conservative liberals and libertarians.
He gave blanket and instantaneous amnesty to all illegals!
Total BS!
Reagan signed a bill that had huge bipartisan support (it would have almost certainly withstood a veto) that gave amnesty to SOME illegals and had measures to stop the influx of further illegals. It's not Reagan's fault that the provisions to stop illegals was ignored.
Today, he would be considered a first class RINO.
Put down the bong.
entropy12, your pathetic lies remind me of Paul Begala, or Robert Reich. Telling too many lies at a rapid pace doesn’t work well at FR. Get a clue, then get a life.
We’re in a far greater fix today than we were in 1980, even after the disastrous policies of Jimmy Carter. So, to be quite frank about it, we are in desperate need of leaders, from the bottom to the top, who are even greater than the great Ronald Wilson Reagan.
And that superior leadership must be exercised not just by some individual leader, but by hundreds, and thousands, and millions of leaders.
But that doesn't mean that some Freepers would not cherrypick a speech here, an interview there, and opine that "He's too squishy for me!" It will happen to every GOP candidate here before November 2016.
One thing I do know about Reagan is that he would cheerfully accept the support of moderate Republicans, even of Democrats, in order to win.
I don't think many Freepers hold with that nowadays. Look how we flame someone based not on his or her own views, but on who has endorsed them.