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.
Reagan was not liked by the Republican establishment, and Sarah Palin isn't liked by them either. Consider what Barbara Bush said about her recently.
"I sat next to her once. Thought she was beautiful. And I think she's very happy in Alaska and I hope she'll stay there."Sadly, the GOP has reverted back to what it was before Reagan came along.