While Reagan looks like the perfect President through the soft lens of history ... I suspect if there had been a Free Republic back then, we'd be having these same arguments about him.
Spending too much, retreating from Lebanon, granting amnesty to illegals, etc.....
Reagan didn't have a GOP Congress (The Senate for 2 years IIRC), Illegals were only 2 million and not a nationwide problem, and had no conservative news outlets at all.
President reagan was the best in my life time. I always supported him.
Iran Contra hearings Ollie North fought back every day! President Reagan stood fast.
President Bush has not fought back once in the last 16 months. I swear Bush is the Dems and Mexico's pinata