Reagan was handsome, charming and engaging. Cruz is brilliant and an exceptional debater. They are not the same.
trisham wrote:
“Reagan was handsome, charming and engaging. Cruz is brilliant and an exceptional debater. They are not the same.”
No, they are not. You are quite right. But that was not, of course, my point. The point was simply that Reagan was hated by the left for ideological reasons and to a large degree sneered at by more than a few Republicans because he didn’t belong to the right “club,” i.e., he was an outsider to D.C. who thought government should serve the people rather than the other way around, as so many in government today both democrat and, sadly, republican think. In this, I think, Reagan and Cruz are very much the same. The one different thing about Cruz is that he, unlike Reagan, is in D.C. although not of D.C. This is what the “club” does not like (in fact, I think they dislike that even more than his merely being an outsider) ... which, if you follow my thinking, makes him the man for the job.
So, give Cruz a chance. Reaganesque personally he is not, but Reaganesque philosophically he most certainly is. Let the voters get to know him for a while. He may just grow on people as they get to know him. Who knows, he may just grow on you.