Reagan was one of a kind, never to be duplicated. It's the equivalent of looking for the new Washington, or Franklin, or Lincoln.
GWB will be remembered as a great president, despite the spending (which Reagan did not control very well either). He is reshaping the world while being vehemently opposed by evil and the traitorous libs in our own country. He will be victorious, just as Reagan was.
>>>>GWB will be remembered as a great president ...
Maybe, but that isn't the point. The current POTUS doesn't support limited government and besides, Bush is in the twilight of his Presidency. Even with a GOP controlled Congress, the federal bureaucracy has been expanded more in the last five years then at any time in the last 40 years.
You're right, there will never be another Reagan and come 2009 conservatives maybe missing Bush43 in the White House. But this is all about advancing a conservative agenda for the future of the Republican Party. Similiar to the conservative agenda that was advanced by Reagan.
You are very incorrect regarding your Reagan statement on spending:
+President Reagan cut the budget of eight agencies out of fifteen during his first term, and ten out of fifteen during his second term.
+President George W. Bush has cut none of the agencies' budgets during his first term.
+President Reagan is the only president to have cut the budget of the Department of Housing and Urban Development in one of his terms (a total of 40.1 percent during his second term).
+President Reagan is the only president to have cut the budget of the Department of Transportation. He cut it by 10.5 percent during his first term and by 7.5 percent during his second term.
+During his first term in office, President Reagan cut the real budget of the Department of Education by 18.6 percent, while President Nixon increased it (that is the education part of what was then the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare) by 19.1 percent. That budget increased by 22.2 percent under Bush 41 and by 38.5 percent under Carter. Our current president has increased it by a whooping 67.6 percent.
+Reagan managed to cut the budget of the Department of Commerce by 29 percent in constant dollars during his first term and by 3 percent during his second one. President Clinton by contrast increased the department's budget by 24 percent in his first term and then by 96.7 percent in his second term.
+President Reagan cut the real budget of the Department of Agriculture by 24 percent during his second term in office.
+President Reagan never cut the budgets of the departments of Defense, Health and Human Services, Justice, or State.