The Reagan you worship is a product of talk radio, he never existed in real life. Reagan made all sort of compromises while President. He was a man and a politician, not perfect.
In fact in late 1980s your sort of “Conservative” purists were busy accusing Reagan of selling out the Conservative movement.
http://articles.latimes.com/1987-09-06/news/mn-6253_1_arms-control
From Sept 1987
Deserting’ His Position
“Many who wouldn't publicly criticize Reagan now are doing it,” conservative activist Richard A. Viguerie said. “They're concerned about abortion, pornography, busing and economic issues, but at the core of the criticism is anti-communism. Across the board he seems to be deserting his anti-communist position he has had for the last 30 years.”
From the earliest days of Reagan's presidency, some right-wing activists have never been entirely satisfied with the Administration's ideological zeal, particularly on foreign policy and so-called “social issues.” In the past, Reagan's vast popularity inhibited open complaints, but now—as he approaches the last year of his final term weakened by the Iran-contra affair—these critics are becoming outspoken.
That is an interesting post, it has nothing to do with me or anyone on this thread, but you started and finished your own conversation, by merely using some stranger of the LA Times writing staff, from a quarter century ago, to represent my own response or my own personal view.
You attack me with your own words, then use your own words as my response to your attack.
You did reveal that you think that Ronald Reagan “ is a product of talk radio, he never existed in real life”.
Personally he changed my life, I even went back into the military because of him, you can’t imagine how much he meant to millions of us, that was before conservative radio existed of course.