I did no such thing. Much of my professional work is dedicated to championing Reagan's legacy. I really do give up - you are falsely accusing me of things in order to deliberately miss my point, and life is too short.
Cognitive dissonance.
"Demeaning" is calling names like, oh, I don't know, "leftist scumbag."
The Giuliani campaign should emphasize its candidate's independence from traditional national Republican policies. Especially useful in this strategy is Giuliani's role in overturning a Reagan administration attempt to throw disabled people off the Social Security rolls, his prosecution of Republican elected officials -- especially his authorization for calling his boss, Attorney General Edwin Meese III, a sleaze, and his un-Republican views on many social issues of concern to New Yorkers, like abortion, gun control and bias protection for homosexuals.' - From the 'Guiliani Vulnerability Study - April 1993