You're bound and determined to make Reagan the issue. Newsflash: Reagan isn't POTUS. Bush is POTUS and Bush is the issue. Btw, Reagan never advocated the elimination of boundaries. That's a blatant lie. Reagan did say, "A nation without borders is not a nation."
If you want to return to that debate we had about Reagan signing the IRCA of 1986, I'll be happy to respond. What we all need to do is hold Bush and the GOP controlled Congress accountable for whatever immigration reform they may come up with.
>>>>Define big government and how does that differ from what President Bush has always been?...
One obvious example. When GW Bush ran for office in the 1999-2000 timeframe, he didn't propose a trillion dollar Medicare prescription drug program that will eventually help bankrupt the government. Bush did propose a limited PDP for the elderly poor that cost roughly $150 billion over ten years and didn't give handouts to multi-milionaires and billionaires like Bill Gates. In addition, while everyone knew that GW Bush wanted to advance an education agenda as POTUS, no one had any idea he would double the budget for the Education Dept. in five years. And finally. Bush ran the first time on wanting to eliminate waste, fraud and abuse in the federal budget, but he's never once used his Presidential veto power to accomplish this goal of fiscal responsibility.
>>>>Like I asked you before, did you know anything about him prior to his being elected? You indicated you did but it must have been a very shallow knowledge.
You have a extremely poor memory. As I reminded you earlier, on most issues you and I, along with other FReepers would routinely defend Bush during the first campaign versus Algore and through most of his first term. The hotly contested Calfiornia Recall Election is were we began to seriously part ways. To now say I have shallow knowledge is silly talk and you know it. Been kicked in the head by a mule lately? LOL
And please explain (you haven't done so yet), why you believe that a President who has restored the military, cut our taxes, restored our value of human life, freed 50,000,000 people, and is waging a successful war on terror and keeping Americans safe and free could possibly have a 'lousy legacy.'
You unfailingly support Reagan in spite of his failures and necessary compromise, yet you require perfection in President Bush, and that he never compromise, before you support him.
I'm trying to see a modicum of consistency in your opinion of the two men, RM, and it just isn't there.