But if you ask me instead of putting words in my mouth, I would say that Reagan was a traditional conservative who had some pragmatism to him that led him to compromise certain conservative postions (and I do not think that is a bad thing- I think it is reality). And I think he took a view on fighting communism which was more along the lines of what the neoconservative view was; and the success of his efforts has made it so that it is now a conservative position to hold these views (since my definition of conservatism is the applied wisdom of history; what history has shown works is something conservatives should embrace).