“I understand full well that Romney is not Reagan.”
Yet you drag Reagan into some small time guys campaign, 1976 has nothing to do with one of three candidates dropping out fairly early in a primary in 2008.
Dragging Reagan and his historical battle even into the convention into Romney’s little flip flop, is to mix nothing of note with a major political event of thirty two years ago.
It is a disgrace this constant attempt to link Romney and Reagan into every Romney defense.
Romney and his father were anti Reagan, that just makes it more disgusting to constantly be trying to drag Reagan down to this small time politician’s level.
They have two modes of operation:
1) Falsely equate Romney with Reagan
2) When that fails, they attack Reagan
My point does not try to equate Reagan the man with Romney the man in any case. It is only to show that the concept of a loser in a primary ending up supporting the winner, despite their disagreements, is not uncommon or necessarily bad.
My bet is, that despite their differences, and despite their current status, within six weeks or more, Huckabee will do the same thing to try and avert a more serious disaster of a Obama or a Clinton being elected.