Grassroots conservatives like Reagan and Palin really flush 'em out, don't they? :)
Many of these folks are establishment types who worship at the altar of Ford/Bush/Rumsfeld/Cheney/Romney and who will, with a straight face, tell you "we're all Reaganites now" while using him to stab another grassroots conservative in the back. Don't kid yourself about who these people are.
The people around Ronald Reagan, the true Reaganites, knew who they were and are. People like Lyn Nofziger who, when asked his opinion on potential VP candidates and the name Donald Rumsfeld came up, said as only he could, "Rummy would be fine, but you realize we'd have to hire a food taster for Reagan!" LOLOL.
“we’re all Reaganites now”
They have tried along with the MSM to so dumb down the definition of Reagan that they can all claim his mantle. How many of them actually say, We are all Bushies now or we are all Fordites now. None. Because they were abject failures.
Most of these creepers will not declare a preference, which is curious. They are either lying and on the payroll of some Establishment candidate like Mittens or Huckster or Paultards who are bewitched by his sorcery. Or they just hate Palin because they don’t want to see a girl in charge. Or they are Democrat trolls sent to conservative sites to sow discord. I imagine there are a few with policy differences or other misgivings, although they rarely identify anything but the quitter/ intelligence/ “she’s not qualified” memes that were for the most part hurled Reagan’s way.
I would love to hear Lyn Nofziger’s take on 2012. I have a pretty good idea what it would have been. He was able to call a spade a spade and he detested the elites. Where do you think he would have stood?