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I will bet that y ou were not an adult when Reagan was running for the office.

The libs, the inside the beltway rinos said the same about him.

Cowboy.

Wanted to shoot someone. Would start WWIII...

An actor with not enough stuff to be President.

Couple things that Reagan had that is lacking in Cain. Prior to his candidacy for President, Reagan wrote and spoke extensively about freedom and anti-communism for years. He developed an understanding wrote and spoke on foreign policy as he moved into his political career, which led to a successful win of the Governorship of California.

Two examples Pre-Governorship and Pre-Presidential candidacy:

http://millercenter.org/president/reagan/essays/biography/2

“During the eight years of his contract with General Electric, Reagan spoke at every one of the company’s 135 plants and to many of GE’s 250,000 employees in trips that served as a valuable political apprenticeship. Because he was afraid to fly, Reagan’s contract specified that he travel by train. He made good use of the long trips between plants to write his speeches in longhand on legal pads, transcribing them onto 3x5 (and later larger) cards. In these speeches, Reagan carefully reworked his themes of individual freedom and anti-Communism, surrounding his message with homey stories drawn from local newspapers or Reader’s Digest. The result was a basic address—known as “The Speech”—that expressed Reagan’s core convictions and was sprinkled with topical anecdotes. Reagan’s affable manner and genial optimism lightened the sternness of his warning that Americans were in danger of losing their individual freedoms.”

“Goldwater, however, had succeeded in his principal objective of transforming the GOP into a conservative party. It needed only a messenger to compete effectively with the Democrats and on October 27, 1964, a week before LBJ’s landslide victory, found one in the person of Reagan. In his nationally televised speech for Goldwater, Reagan called for leadership that would reduce the domestic reach of the federal government while simultaneously bolstering its military establishment and resisting the worldwide spread of Communism.”