Without question Reagan would have had the same effect that he had in 1980, nobody knows the specifics of how he would have shaped his campaigned, but he would have defeated Jimmy Carter the II, and he would have helped the entire ticket, and would have educated the public while doing it.
Romney just can’t overcome being what he is, and people can see it in him.
Romney and a lot of the GOPe do not grasp that many of us are suck of the garbage:
1. Government abuse like war on drugs, TSA, NDAA, civil forfeiture laws, etc
2. Govt mandates
3. Meally mouthed political speak
Etc etc.
Romney cam across as just as big an advocate for big govt and intrusive govt as obama did with an unlikable way about him.
Reagan would have had a very steep hill to climb to get to his shining city. The country has changed dramatically in the last 30 years and it’s a totally different ball game. Obama is more than Jimmy Carter II; he is the magic negro and has an media propaganda machine and a visicous, if not lethal, political apparatus behind him. Bread and circuses are all that matters to most people nowadays. The public really doesn’t want to be educated; it just wants handouts.
And winning means more than just getting people to vote for you. It’s now all about manufacturing and counting the votes a la Stalin.
Reagan was a great man for the times. But the times they are a changin.