I thought you were talking about Gene McCarthy.
Reagan was the last best Republican, and JFK was the last best Democrat.
I second you on both of those points. Like always, Reagan was a bit over the top. BUT he didn't give in to false tough guy "Nuke them all, and we can drill for oil through the glass" rhetoric. Nor did he offer appeasment. Like JFK, and even more so, he offered an armed, prepared and non-militaristic American demand that we and ours be left in peace. Reagan was called a war monger. BS. What fights did he start? Puttng US troops in Lebanon? Invading Grenada? He talked tough, but killed far fewer folks than Bush the Elder, Clinton, W. and Obama combined. In doing so (or rather refraining from doing so), he changed the world. How? He remembered that Gadsen flag. I am no ones idea of a GOP stalwart, but I do miss the man.
FQ13