You seem to be struggling with the concept of the different political circumstances that Reagan would face today. I will expand, and perhaps it will help you to understand:
You do realize that Ronald Reagan is no long with us, right? And you also realize that even if he were still alive (but presumably not 103 years old), the 22nd Amendment would disqualify him from running, right?
It should therefore be common sense that we are dealing with a hypothetical candidate with the same track record as Reagan had when he ran in 1980. Not the man himself.
In 2016 it would be very difficult for an otherwise conservative candidate to win the Republican nomination for president if he had previously signed an abortion bill into law as a state governor. This is not a conclusion that should have an argument.
That is not to say that a similar candidate could not run to the right and win the nomination anyway, as we have seen with Mitt Romney. But Romney is a very different politician. And Reagan was a very different type of man.
Now, you can keep this up if you like, but as far as I'm concerned, you are embarrassing yourself. You stalked me onto this thread, and you are making yourself look bad without my help.
It is not rational behavior, and that is why I worry about you.
You do insist on continuing the personal insults inside of your rambling posts, which seem to be barrels of tar as you drag in other threads and make lengthy bizarre personal attacks.
Reagan would do great today, and would be supported by FR, and we still support him, that was more likely what you saw in post 190.
To quote my post 173 “”The imaginary Reagan candidate today, would be the 1980 Reagan, updated to today’s situation, and with assets like Palin and Cruz, and layers of conservatives that he didn’t have then.
Reagan would be the same brilliant and conservative candidate today, that he was in his own time.””