[Biggirl]

Rather, continuing the legacy.

[Democrat_media]

To Sarah Palin: History is calling for the first woman president , will you answer the phone?

[cripplecreek]

I see bits and pieces of Reagan in many but none really come close to the whole package.

Ronald Reagan 1980 Republican National Convention Acceptance Address

[Theodore R.]

Ron Paul was anti-Reagan; considered the old star to be too much of a compromiser. How does Rand stand?

[Josh Painter]

I believe that Ted Cruz is Reagan’s heir. Rand Paul is Goldwater’s

[pgkdan]

I don’t rust Rand Paul as far as I can throw him. I think he’s the ideological twin of his nutty father. He can’t hold a candle to Cruz as far as I’m concerned.

[FlipWilson]

Why is it a shock that these two would choose foreign policy? They pretty much agree on everything else. What the MSM will miss is that Mr. Paul and Mr. Cruz can have an actual, intellectual disagreement and a good debate about it.

[Aqua Buddhist]

It’s also hard to see how a mainstream media that unfairly turned Dole, McCain, and Romney into extremists won’t make easy sport of Paul.

They'd do that if the GOP nominated the reincarnation of George Washington. It'll happen no matter what, so it cancels out as an issue for choosing one candidate over another.

[Jack of all Trades]

I love Reagan as much as anybody else, but there will never be another Reagan. In part because the legacy we revere, at least economically, is part myth (IMHO, see below), and in part because Reagan was much more of a political compromiser than would be tolerated today. Reagan's chief legacy IMHO was that he restored American's faith in America, he ended the post-Vietnam era and reasserted American strength around the world, and he helped to bring about the downfall of the USSR.

I was a big believer in the "Reagan Miracle" of 30 years of economic expansion brought about by government and tax reform until I really started thinking about the credit bubble that popped in 2008. I think, after looking at charts like the one below, that the economic expansion was primarily fueled by expanding credit.

I hope no one thinks I'm trashing President Reagan. I'm not. I'm of the opinion that we've borrowed much of our economic prosperity.

[SkyPilot]

Our current crop of Republicans have voted time and time again to cut the military (2009, 2012, and Sequestration in 2013).

They have abandoned a strong defense.

Ronald Reagan was for the military, and there was never any doubt about that. Our enemies knew it. Our military knew it. The American people knew it.

I don't see Rand Paul or Ted Cruz coming anywhere CLOSE to where Reagan was on Defense. All I see is a head in the sand approach to the world and a weakened US military.

[X-spurt]

Sometimes it seems Jonah can’t help but want to be in the Big Boys MSM Club.

Ain’t no fight between Rand and Cruz, even though the dem’s MSM and shite stirrers wish so.

[TBP]

Allies, but also competitors — much like players in spring training who are fighting for the same roster spot.