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.
Hear hear, Ans! That's our kinda STUFF!
Romney is a loser and bad news for the GOP, conservatism, and America. We need to fight him off the GOP before once again, as he did last time, his "spoiler" status creates a drain on the coffers and resources of truly worthy conserative candidates and warriors. Romney is like slow poison to the GOP.
Something that none of us has articulated well is that Mitt Romney, his father and failed Presidential candidate George Romney, and his mother failed Senatorial candidate Lenore Romney have always been engaged in a war against conservatism.
Mitt's revulsion at conservatives such as Ronald Reagan and the 1994 Republicans and what they stood for is as well documented and recorded as his parent's was in the 60s and 70s.
The fact that one day in about 2006 an alien creature burst out of that history with a $150,000,000.00 advertising campaign and an instant adoption of what had been his former enemies ideology (conservatism) and a sudden clawing obsession to become the very king of that hated movement that had so shamed and blocked his family's ambitions for at least two generations sets off huge warning signs for many of us.