All you have done is call people names. You have defended nothing and have soiled the memory of Ronald Reagan. You have not presented one fact because you don't know any.
I even gave you a way to attack me ... all it required is for you to know the shelf life of missile propellants. But you did not.
Section9 of course knew, you did not.
You're senile, go to bed.
What you realized about Reagan, after meeting him and watching him campaign and govern, was how utterly pragmatic a conservative he was. I suspect Bush is the same way, only we won't really get to appreciate him so much until years from now.
I remember the story you told about Reagan and the California assembly in the 1960's, how Reagan learned to settle for 3/4's of the loaf and had to endure the criticism from his "allies" on the Brigadier right for not holding out for the entire breadbox. That criticism followed him through his Presidency, although we don't remember it now because, in the wake of Bush I, Clinton, and Bush II, Reagan is a giant.
Reagan understood that one can keep one's eyes on one's core convictions and maneuver around and make deals to get to the Promised Land. The Human Events crowd hated that about Reagan, and complained loudly during the early years (you DO remember the catastrophic '82 election cycle, don't you, when there was backbiting from the "conservatives"?). When he had to, he governed by making deals with Tip. Democrats were a different party, even in those days.
The Right never won an election in this country. If they had, we'd be discussing President Goldwater and how he dropped the Bomb on Hanoi. Reagan always understood how to mate conservatism and coalition politics.
Be Seeing You,
Chris