Reagan made huge blunders, in the midst of otherwise brilliance.
Today you hold him up way above W and say he's great but W is mediocre.
Reagan held the nation with his rhetoric. Bush lets events and the rhetoric of others unfold just enough to show the hands, lay the cards on the table. That includes the media's, then he points to what we have seen and heard with our own eyes and does his best to place it in proper perspective and historical context.
The glass is more than half full, not half empty or more than half empty. Is it all just right? Nope.
Neither was it with Reagan.
It's sad but true. Many of the Reagan worshippers are the same people who would have griped loudest about him back in the day.
They are now just using his 'greatness' as a weapon against Bush.
He was great, but so is Dubya.