He is right but because Romney with his money, the RINOs and the GOP-e would have tried to bury Reagan under a mountain of garbage by now.
I can just hear the cries of Reagan focuses too much on social issues. We need somebody who can appeal to the moderates. Reagan is just too extreme, too old, too conservative. He’s out of touch. They’d say Reagan was once pro-choice, just like Romney already has been doing. Liberaltarians, RINOs, GOP-E all trashing Reagan conservatives while blaming them for doing the trashing. Now they have their friend, marxist number one, joining in with them. It’s just disgusting.
The bluebloods did that very thing in 1976 and 1980.
And what did Reagan do? Picked HW Bush....
And that's the kind of compromise that is getting the vicious reaction to Rubio and Ryan for endorsing Romney....and will go nuclear when Palin endorses him.
Reagan used to have happy hours with his opponents in Congress.
Reagan wasn't a purist, which makes him appear perfect now in hindsight.