[TAdams8591]

"you can't keep holding on to that last spasm of desperation from a dead past."

That's what some Republicans told Reagan after his first unsuccessful bid for the R nomination and the presidency.

[ansel12]

That's what some Republicans told Reagan after his first unsuccessful bid for the R nomination and the presidency.

Reagan was a famous conservative that emerged in at least 1947 if he wasn't known as such already, Reagan was successful at getting elected and reelected, he wasn't an anti-Reagan liberal guy that pulled off a single unsuccessful term as governor with no reelection.