my post was not meant to denigrate Reagan, but rather point out that attacking Bush43 on immigration is meaningless unless one views his stance in relation to Reagan. If you are not ready to attack Reagan then attacking Bush43 on immigration seems hypocritical.
It’s revealing that you take my detailing of Bush43’s behavior regarding illegal immigration to be ‘attacking’ him. You aren’t accusing me of falsely representing what he did, because I’m not. It can only be an attack if accurately describing his behavior reveals that he was doing something which he shouldn’t. Which I agree is exactly what he was doing. He took an oath to enforce our laws. But he ran for the office hinting in a number of speeches that he had no intention of enforcing our border laws. And he lived down to his hints.
Reagan did nothing like that. He didn’t run for office stating that “family values don’t stop at the Rio Grande”. I’ll condemn Reagan’s amnesty, but Reagan the man possessed a far better character than the duplicitous oath-scorning Bush43.