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.
Reagan was a great man for anytime, as he proved every decade of his long life, from student politics in college to Hollywood and national politics of the 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970, 1980s, and 1990s.
Romney never liked Reagan or his politics, was always against him and has smeared him since his death.
Romney has never been a great man, or had good politics or been successful at winning people over as a 20 year politician.
Reagan would have rolled over Carter the second, won the Senate and smashed the democrats.
America has changed to the degree that Reagan would not have been alone this time, this time Reagan would have the tea party and Sarah Palin, conservative media, the Congress, Governorships, state houses, talk radio, advantages that he didn’t have, and that Mitt largely rejected as they were the hated conservatives.