Reagan admitted after leaving off that her had regrets in some of his decisions - the 1986 amnesty bill and Sandra Day O’Connor among them. He said he got taken by Kennedy on the former.
I’m actually not sure what Choncha was trying to get at here but of course Reagan could never be called a RINO because it was they he had to defeat to get the nomination and it was they fought against for eight years while in office.
The designations of RINO and Conservative are not interchangeable or comparative in any way, shape or form.
Reagan was the scourge of the former and defined the latter.