WHAAAT? What are you smoking? George "DUH-Pee-Yew" Bush couldn't scrape Reagan's shoes much less fill them! The Reagan legacy was to win with overwhelming force (i.e., raise the ante on the Ruskies until their brutal monolithic communism joke of an empire collapsed; blast the hell out of Khadaffi's terrorist Libya; get fellow Islamic warlords Ayatollah Rohollah Khomeini and Saddam Hussein to kill each other in an never-ending war by selling arms to both and use the profits to go snuff out Ortega communism in Latin America, etc.). Reagan was a giant, Bush was and is a pipsqueak!
What I said was that “George W seemed to really get the Reagan legacy and respect it.” This is true. He had tremendous respect for Reagan and he understood why Reagan was beloved. I also noted that he wasn’t a follower of it. No need to get bombastic about it.