I was not aware that Ronald Reagan ever ran a samll business. And while it is good experience, why exactly that would make a great president and four to six years as a senator would not is to me a little puzzling. Are you saying all past and present Republican senators would make awful presidents? And to contend that Nixon's main goal was socialism is so absurd as to require no answer.
First, if you don’t realize that Richard “Run Right, Govern Left” Nixon was a socialist, you’re out in the woods for sure. We wouldn’t have Red China to contend with were it not for Nixon pulling their fat out of the fire in the early ‘70s, at our great expense. He could have blown them over with a feather at the time, and sealed the already acquired victory in Viet Nam in the process. A real Republican would have done opposite of Nixon in every instance.
Reagan ran several businesses, one of which was his ranch, but that’s irrelevent. Time spent in congress is destructive, not helpful in making a president. Most members of congress know nothing but the practice of law, which is also an impediment to governance.
Palin is the ideal president because she knows by experience how government works, but that it should not work that way. She knows that the present system has to be dug out by the roots, and none of the chaff candidatews have a clue, nor desire to do so. They’re used to profiting from the broken system.