You talk about 'message' (rhetoric), I asked about SPECIFIC policy/outcome differences between Reagan and Bush.
BTW: President Reagan won a re-election landslide because the economy 'turned' at the perfect moment (and he ran against a complete loser); prior to the economy's 'turn' his 'message' was so UNPOPULAR that he considered NOT running for re-election -- job approval ratings in the 30s will do that to a president. [NOTE: Within a year after his landslide re-election, Reagan's job approval ratings were back in the 40s where they plateaued for almost 6 years of his 8 years in office . . . Bill Clinton posted a better Gallup rating for his 8 years in office; does this mean he had a better 'message'?]
Reagan had a positive economic message - even when the economy was not going great, he stayed the course and had a message.
what is the Bush economic agenda and message? the economic problems we are facing in the US today, what does he have to say about them? offshoring? loss of pensions? the gutting of the manufacturing base? just recently, Treasury has finally woken up about the chinese currency peg, something many of us have been screaming about here for years.