Well, no. You insist on pandering to the GOPe, so I'm merely pointing out for your benefit and education that, in fact, Reagan was at one point a democrat. He turned out GREAT for America.
Ronald Reagan had years as governor to prove his conservative bonafides. He had from 1975 to 1980 to continue showing his conservative bonafides.
What a sorry sack you would have been, poo pooing Reagan just a couple years after he changed his mind.
Did Reagan do a quick evolving?
Apparently so. He went from democrat to republican with the stroke of a pen on his voter registration. I'd say that was pretty damned quick.
Now, why don't you go lick some GOPe RINO jackboots.
Wrong! He supported republican candidates for ten years before finally switching parties in 1962, and then it was another 18 years after that before he was elected president.