[nopardons]

You are correct; it was a "smokey backroom "deal". They still existed back then.

Thingy...W never claimed to be the "second coming of Reagan" and he certainly wasn't.

[thingumbob]

Not in those words but W DID talk about meeting him, and how much he admired him over and over on the campaign trail.

The carpetbagger was selling Reagan like a good politician and leaving the rest of us to connect the dots. Cant tell you how many discussions with friends I had in 2000 who said, He's gonna be like Reagan. I'm right about this AND I was living in another chad hanging state called Ohio back then.