Reagan’s colossal mistake was putting Bush as his VP.
Boy GHWB's resume was impressive, but from a historical standpoint, yes it could have been better. On the plus side, GHWB was more of a hard @$$ than we knew. A good friend read a book ( I don't have the name ) where as VP he went to South America un-escorted and confronted a drug lord to get some of our people back. Not letting Schwarzkopf finish the Job in job in Iraq, bad move. Not listening to Bill Bennett and VP Quayle do not go along with George Mitchell and raising taxes, Stupid.
The question begs, who could have Reagan brought aboard instead of Bush.
Tangent to this is we as Conservatives will embrace the RINO's and make them part of the team when we win big, when they win big, they stick it too us. And that can be fodder for the Divorce I and now Tom Tancredo is talking about aka we will split off, they will go the way of the wigs if they don't change their behavior...