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From www.rushlimbaugh.com:

Cruz Educates Leno on the Real Reagan
He's got Ted Cruz on there, and he said, "Look, I know you're a man of principle.
You have your principles.
Does that prevent compromise, when you're so set on what you do?"
CRUZ: My view on compromise is actually exactly the same thing as what Ronald Reagan's was.
Reagan said, "What do you do if they offer you half a loaf?"
Answer: "You take it, and then you come back for more."
LENO: I don't think Ronald Reagan could get in the Tea Party today.
CRUZ: You know, I don't think that's right at all. Look at what Reagan did.
LENO: Mmm-hmm?
CRUZ: Reagan led a grassroots revolution.
I think where we are today is an awful lot like the late 1970s --
LENO: Okay.
CRUZ: -- where we had economic stagnation.
We had people hurting because the government policies under Jimmy Carter, they weren't working.
Remember, Reagan challenged an combatant Republican president 1976 in a primary --
LENO: Right.
CRUZ: -- and there was I grassroots revolution where he said:
Listen, this isn't working; let's get back to free market principles --
LENO: Mmm-hmm.
CRUZ: -- back to the Constitution...

Now, let's go back to March 13th, 1975, on The Tonight Show, 1975, Johnny Carson had Ronaldus Magnus, and they had this exchange
CARSON: Everybody is confused. How are we gonna get out of this?
REAGAN: I think one of the things is that people keep looking to government for the answer,
and government's the problem. (applause)
A moment ago you asked, you know, about people and feeling not only confused, but low and down on America.
First of all, the American people, if they would just take a little inventory and look around,
you triple our troubles and we're better off than any other people on earth.
And we've asked so much of government, and we've gotten in the habit over the last 40 years of thinking that government has the answers.
There's very little that government can do as efficiently and as economically as the people can do themselves.
And if the government would shut the doors and sneak away for about three weeks, we'd never miss 'em.
RUSH: Ronald Reagan was the Tea Party.
But there's Leno, "Well, Reagan, he couldn't even get in the Tea Party."
You know, a lot of leftists say that.
"You know, the Republicans, they would reject Reagan in a primary election."
Bull shhh. Bull. It's a crock...