1. We are far better off embracing Mexicans generally than by embracing practitioners of sexual perversion individually or generally.
2. Demonrats used that insight sparingly in the last election to nominate and elect some conservative Demonrats to Congress. Now that they won the 2006 election by fraud, those same Demonrat Congresscritters have to vote and develop a voting record that can and will be used against them. Their majority is built on fraud and it will be wrecked on the rocks of that fraud.
3. Reagan did not bring many pro-aborts or pro-lavenders to the GOP as "moderate Republicans." What Reagan did was to be himself, the embodiment of the solid values of his generation, accurately described as the "greatest generation." When the execrable columnist Drew Pearson wrote a column about a ring of homosexuals operating in the California GOP and in Reagan's early governorship, Reagan went after Pearson for being arrested on morals charges in St. Louis in the World War I era and Pearson never ventured another word about Reagan. Reagan also fired the offenders who were also taking teenaged boys to Lake Tahoe. One of those fired ("sent to explore the politics of New Hampshire" in 1967) was the well-known Philip Battaglia for those who remember the incident.
4. What Reagan did bring to the GOP were those socially conservative and economically somewhat liberal Democrats whose party had left them as it had left Reagan decades earlier. Labor union members who were avidly religious. Military veterans who gagged over McGovernism while being unoffended by Social Security. Patriots who despised feckless sell-out foreign/military policy. People who were lifelong Democrats but were terminally offended by the imbecile from Plains, Georgia, etc. You may call them "moderate" Democrats. They were never "moderate" Republicans. Guns, God, Babies, Marriage, low taxes on people of modest means, Kick Ass Foreign Policy, etc.
5. Some of these folks are leaving the GOP because of PC wimpishness, toleration of "Log Cabin" "Republicans", an extended war in which the gummint is often more interested in prosecuting soldiers than in killing the enemy, and economic policies that reward (through "free" "trade" and tax policy) people other than them and punish them economically.
Reagan was not over-the-top or mean. Reagan was a real gentleman. He was gracious and used common decency in dealing with others.