Ronald Reagan wasn't in the establishment of the Republican Party either, nor was Richard Nixon.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Ronald Reagan wasn't qualified to be governor, let alone president.
Demeanor-wise, Reagan was a conservative, but a pragmatic conservative, and he found silver linings in things. He liked to be a mediator. He didn't like to have enemies around him.
He and Reagan were not at all alike, because Reagan is an optimist and Dick Nixon wasn't. Yet in some ways they were alike. Neither really liked to talk on the telephone, for instance. And, in a lot of respects, both of them were very much loners.
I mean, people need to remember without the grassroots, Ronald Reagan probably doesn't become president of the United States of America and he worked the grassroots on a regular basis during his political career and especially between the years of 1976 and 1980 after the loss in Kansas City.
President Reagan, of course, did more than any other person to entrench the Republican reputation for toughness on national security.
I'm a Reagan Republican, which means I don't speak ill of other Republicans.
No politician was more maligned than Ronald Reagan.
Ronald Reagan, of course, was a Republican governor of California who went through a painful defeat in the 1976 presidential race before winning four years later.
I am a Reagan Republican.
Richard Nixon was a very complex man. I don't think he was a conservative, nor liberal, not even a moderate. He was a pragmatic politician. He loved politics.