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Not sure I agree. Ronald Reagan was one helluva administrator. Because he knew how to delegate, AND he understood the nuts-and-bolts of how the system operated.

The Federal Leviathan is such a tangled web by now I feel we need someone with first-hand structural knowledge in order to begin the task of untangling it.

Mark Levin and I think you are totally wrong. And others too. The web is so tangled indeed - but that leads to the opposite conclusion.

Any one entangled in the minutae cannot possibly lead the vision. An executive is often a tactician, what we need is a big picture strategist.

Reagan did not administer closely the way you say.....and back then, the gov was MUCH smaller and MUCH MORE manageable. I think Reagan would agree with Levin too.

>>Not sure I agree. Ronald Reagan was one helluva administrator<<

What Ronald Reagan had...was vision. He was called the “Great Communicator”.

The republican establishment HATED Ronald Reagan. The democrats saw him as a threat.

They were not ready for Ronald Reagan. After Jimmy Socialist, Reagan swept the election/nation in a historic landslide election.

I pray history repeats itself.

Geez, I hate to interrupt this heartwarming flow of Reagan Hagiography, but Olde Ronaldus did screw a coupla pooches during his tenure. e.g.:

(1) He neglected to campaign vigorously for congressional allies, leaving himself on the wrong side of budgetary restraint, so....
(2) ...he never did get the old Laffer Curve supply-side economy working. While we were spending the USSR to its demise, we were also increasing entitlements
(3) He screwed up the immigration thing, having a sort of old California B1 Bob Dornan view of illegal Mexicans as quaint, colorful, and reliable domestic retainers. Ah well, he did say, "Sorry, Gang!"

Yes, he was the greatest President of my born-under-Roosevelt (no, not Teddy!) lifetime, maybe even better than Eisenhower. If you are old enough to remember, under Ike this was a powerful, wealthy, and respected country with fully functional, much less obtrusive and smaller government ... which Reagan almost succeeded in recreating. (Of course, ultimately Ike failed us by not adequately supporting Nixon, resulting in the lecherous fool JFK .... then the treacherous crook LBJ.)

I am hoping Cruz is the next, new and improved Reagan. Cruz is following a President much worse than Jimmy, from whose disastrous policies Reagan did largely manage to extricate us.

Ronald Reagan was one helluva administrator. Because he knew how to delegate, AND he understood the nuts-and-bolts of how the system operated.

I am so tired of hearing this idea that governors make the best presidents, which has not been borne out by history.

Over the past 100 years (or so) we have had 8 presidents with prior gubernatorial experience:

Theodore Roosevelt
Woodrow Wilson
Calvin Coolidge
Franklin Roosevelt
Jimmy Carter
Ronald Reagan
Bill Clinton
George W. Bush

With the exception of Ronald Reagan and Calvin Coolidge, the remaining six have been unmitigated disasters.

That's hardly an encouraging record.

And Reagan wasn’t a great president because he was a governor. He was a great president because he understood what America was all about, loved liberty, limited government and free markets, and knew how to sell it.

I like a lot of what I know about Scott Walker, but the fact is that he appears to be a supporter of amnesty/immigration reform -- which is a deal killer as for as I am concerned.

Ted Cruz is the ONLY consistent, articulate conservative candidate who seems to understand the proper role of the federal government in all respects.

I believe that when one looks at the whole pack, Cruz is the only one who has the brains, the principles and the experience to save this country, if in fact it can be saved after 100 years of Progressive leftist infestation by both parties.