I’m a Reaganite and I like Palin. None of the Bushes deserve to be mentioned in the same breath. The biggest mistake Reagan ever made was to select a Bush as his vice president.
Bush was as good as anyone we had who could win. It’s a very imperfect world out there.
There are some very good candidates who could do great things if we could get them in office.. Congressman Steve King from my state for example.
But I would probably not support a candidate like that as he would not be electable on a national stage.
Listening to the Reagan diaries mad me realize that he had a lot of critics on the right and the left.
I’ll bet if FR was around then; we would have had posters ripping into Reagan as a RINO.