Reagan would be congratulating Bush for his stand. You really give Reagan a bad name.
Reagan didn't have the thinly veiled animus towards Mexicans that you seem to have.
I think you answered your own question. Your impressions are spot on. Most liberals don't like conservatives.
Bush wasn't paying attention to the California elections it appears. Why do I get the impression he doesn't really like conservatives?
Because he does not, of course; like father, like son. Bush Jr. has been slyly dissing conservatives ever since he locked eyes on the presidency, if not earlier. "Compassionate conservativism" is nothing more than a subtle swipe at conservatives, who are, apparently, not "compassionate" in Bush's eyes.
It was a very bad day when the liberal wing of the GOP foisted Bush Sr. on Reagan as his running mate. That one action doomed the conservative movement at the presidential level as effectively as the entry of the neo-cons into the conservative movement doomed movement conservatism to irrelevency. It took 20 years, but it was inevitable. The accomplishments of the conservative movement and the new right which came to fruition under Reagan in 1980, have been effectively nullified from within. The liberal Republican, northeastern establishment which looked defeated and on the way out in 1980, has effectively rallied and returned to power. True, they claim to be "Reagan conservatives", but their agenda is that of the northeastern liberal Republican establishment which Reagan fought against. Worse, they have effectively passed themselves off as the mainstream of the GOP and of the conservative movement.