[ek_hornbeck]

This is the Alan Simpson of Simpson/Mazzoli. The law that flooded the country with 5 million illegals-turned-citizens and killed the GOP in California. Every republican was a conservative when Reagan was president. Most, like Alan here, became 'kinder and gentler' as soon as RWR retired.

Unfortunately, Reagan was hardly infallible either. He's the one who signed Simpson-Mazolli into law, after all, legalizing millions of illegals and setting the precedent for today's mess. Perhaps he had his own "kinder, gentler" flaws during his second term, no doubt thanks to his Rockefeller Republican VP's influence.

[skeeter]

The most Reagan can be faulted for is taking the democrats at their word - 'we really, really promise to enforce the borders this time'.

Of course, he should have known better -they had already forced him to act against his conscious and then failed to live up to the promises they had made in exchange on other issues.

Democrats lie. Democrat enablers lie.