Yes, the inevitable "but" by the Bush water boys just before you whiz on the Gippers grave. In the end, the only thing you accomplish with such a tactic, is getting your own shoes wet as you whiz on the Gippers grave.
It really doesn't do your cause any good and makes yourselves, as well as who you are defending, seem small.
I love and admire Reagan a great deal, but he had feet of clay, too.