You hit on some very key points. Reagan ran during a time when America was still a whole lot more basically Conservative than it is now. There is very little resemblance or comparison of the America then, and the America now.
There is a new underlying majority among Blacks and Hispanics that is not even being considered. Add to that, the new generations of younger indoctrinated voters who have been given their political views from the Public education system.
The Demographics of the new America is not even close to the same as it was during Reagan's time. (I was there. I worked for Reagan's campaign.)
WHY ever not? He must be thoroughly vetted, especially because he flied under radar up to now.
For most people, including me, Rick Santorum was just a disgraced senator, who badly lost his reelection with 41% to 59% in 2006 ...
The more I'm reading about his record, the less I like him.
Santorum is the guy who wrote in more than $3.5 billion in earmarks during his career. "Fiscal conservative"? Hardly.
Santorum is the guy , who cheated his state of almost $100,000 for his personal use and never gave back the money.
During his years in the Senate, Santorum raised his family in northern Virginia, and not in his Pittsburgh suburb house he claimed to be his main residence. Pennsylvania voters were shocked when they found out the Penn Hills School District of that suburb had paid out $72,000 for the home cyberschooling of five of Santorum’s kids, hundreds of miles away in a different state. Santorum never returned the money.
Santorum is the guy who put up a "charity", which was indeed only a money scam.
In 2001 Santorum launched a charitable foundation called the 'Operation Good Neighbor Foundation, ' which rose more than $1 million. Where did the majority of the charity’s money go? In salaries and consulting fees to a network of politically connected lobbyists, aides and fundraisers, including rent and office payments to Santorum’s finance director Rob Bickhart.
A responsible charity doles out at least 75 percent of its income in grants, but the 'Operation Good Neighbor Fund' contribution was less than 36 percent. The charity – which didn’t register with the state of Pennsylvania as required under the law, was finally disbanded in 2007.
I can go on and on ...