[SoConPubbie]

You forgot that Reagan had a veto pen which he rarely used against Tip O’Neill.

Please use common sense.

His first priority became to stop the Soviet Union in it's tracks. He could not do that without building up the military. He could not do that without an increase in military spending from the Carter years whom destroyed the military. He could not get an increase in the military budget through a Democrat controlled House and Senate (part of the time) without dealing with the Democrats.

Ted Cruz, when he becomes President, will not have that problem because he will at least have the House and quite possibly the Senate. He will be able to use that VETO Pen much more freely.

[entropy12]

Growing the government THREE times bigger was a cardinal sin by president Reagan. USSR was never a dire emergency. Those people are not Iran or ISIS. They understand mutually assured destruction (MAD). The Islamists consider dying for Jihad the quickest path to Allah’s heaven. Actually we have a dire situation much worse today than during Reagan with USSR.