The reason Reagan was not able to have a lasting impact, is he did not follow through and fight for conservatism. In his time, it was more important to take on the Soviet Union - everything else was set aside. So he raised SS taxes, allowed immigration, selected SC Judges who do not reflect conservative principles, to get along and make deals with Tip O’Neil.
The time for deals is over! The country is in desperate shape, on a fiscal cliff of insanity. Only be selected a true conservative who is willing to stand up to the liberal nonsense can this be reversed. No one, has proven able to do that better than Cruz. He is not bought by anyone, he can’t be bought. He’s taken every arrow the beltway class has thrown at him, and tossed in down.
They now support him! That’s how remarkable a change he has made in 4 short years. When he’s elected President, imagine what he can do in 8 years!
Your consideration for wisdom, is to delve deeply into cynicism and elect a liberal who says things uniformed crowds cheer to.
Sometimes you have to educate the crowd. Ted Cruz will do that as he goes head to head with Hillary or Sanders. He has the knowledge, ability and intelligence to educate on a vast scale conservative principles. Whether he gets that chance, is up to those supporting a condo salesman.
> “The reason Reagan was not able to have a lasting impact, is he did not follow through and fight for conservatism.”
Reagan did not have a GOP Congress to back him. He had a mandate of the people but it took 4 years after he left office to get a GOP Congress that would try to carry on the Reagan Revolution.
As it was, Reagan had to deal with what he had. But his legacy is not in his legislative achievements, it was in the prestige that he brought back to American and his major role in bringing down the Soviet Union.