Reagan ran and become governor of California and earned a record. We didn’t have to take his word that his whole world view changed in the last several years prior to running for President. The Presidency is too big a deal to vote by faith based on words alone.
Reagan never ran a business. We have that record. They are different records. However, I can tell you from personally spending a lot of time in the RR papers-—Ted is clueless as to what it would take to run the government, as is any other GOP candidate but Trump. Even Bush, Kasich, and Christie’s experience at the state level isn’t anywhere on a par with Reagan’s. So he’s really sui generis.