Reagan wasn't exactly the brightest bulb on the tree...in fact, he may have been the dimmest. But I cut him some slack since his "profession" was an actor.
That is the same lame attack on Reagan you liberals have been throwing around for the last 40 years. The historic facts of the Reagan record show something entirely different.
President Reagan won the Cold War, dismantled the Soviet Empire and the communist Eastern Bloc, freeing 500 million people from totalitarian rule, rebuilt the US military, revived the US economy from the worst conditions since the Great Depression, cut taxes 25% across the board, reduced the top tax rates from 70% to 28%, reduced welfare state and non-defense discreationary spending, and reduced federal regulations like no POTUS before or since. Reagan also proposed the Strategic Defense Initiative, aka.STAR WARS. A visionary proposal that brought Gorbachev to his knees. Reagan also negotiated reductions in the strategic nuclear weaponry of the worlds two super powers. Reagan should have won the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts in ending the Cold War.
Lets not forget the results of Reagan's two landslide victories in 1980 and 1984. In 1980 Reagan beat Carter by 9.7%, 50.7% to 41%, and 489 electoral votes to 49. In 1984, Reagan beat Mondale by an 18.3% margin, 58.8% to 40.5%, and with an historic high of 525 electoral votes, to 13 for Fritz.
Finally. If it wasn't for President Ronald Reagan there would be no conservative movement today, no Newt Gingrich and the Contract With America, and no 43rd President called GW Bush.