Sorry, but your memory is extremely faulty. There were "I'M A
TRUE CONSERVATIVE AND REGAN IS DESTROYING CONSERVATISM" types screaming their heads off, when Reagan was president.
The Dems didn't say that; they had no reason to.
If FR had been around back then, there would have been a record of it all, in the archives, but it wasn't. But the same people, who today whinge and whine about President Bush, are the same people ( depending upon their age, of course ), who absolutely were saying the same things about President Reagan.
Just WHAT do you think they were saying, when Reagan gave BLANKET AMNESTY to ALL illegal aliens, when he raised taxes, and on and on?
I WOULD LIKE TO SECOND THIS.
And from a strange position. I was a liberal college student at the time (I have done penance by naming one of my children after him) and I was absolutely ecstatic because Reagan's base was abandoning him! I just knew that we were winning because of this man. Sheesh. Was I dolt. And so were the people who were complaining because he wasn't perfect.