Staying power. Reagan didn’t quit.
You know, coming from a military family, I don’t know how this -expletive- myth got started. Way back in the 1950’s we knew they were going broke. Ike, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Carter, et al, all knew it right down to Reagan. Heck the biggest confirmation came when Nixon and Brehznev? Kruschev? met for some show in Moscow detailing the “great advancements” the Soviets claimed to have made overall and Nixon saw the cracks.
This deification of Reagan as the “commie buster” and holiest of all conservatives is counter-productive. Reagan is the idiot that helped the most to whore out conservatism in the name of power. Newt, G.W., and McCain are just the continuation of that policy of selling the party’s soul in the name of power.
I swear, I don’t understand many “conservatives” today. Start acting like Conservatives -expetive-!