I agree with you, what people would be similiar to Reagan do you think?
I personally like Gingrich, he managed to keep government spending under control for almost a decade, with Clinton in the whitehouse.
Clinton with his diplomacy, free trade, pro-technology ideas was pretty good economically because he was limited in how much he could spend. With no limits he would have gone Lenin like, and crashed things.
If we keep growing the government faster then our economy grows, it won't take long before we're just another France or Germany.
I hear some good things about Gov. Sanford- S. Carolina