You are utterly wrong in the main particular that Reagan had a REAL and MEASURABLE drift from centrist Democrat to conservative Republican. Romney flips and flops every day of the week and has shown NO drift right but a sudden slam to the right conveniently just before the 2008 elections.
Where Reagan shows a steady ideological movement, Romney is a merely a LIAR.
So, your attempt to smooth the waters for Romney by attacking Reagan makes you uninformed, anti-conservative, and it makes me wonder why you come here!?
Exactly right! And I would add to the "liar" part, only expediency, none of which one could say was any motivation political on the part of Reagan or of who he was as a person.