Reagan was an interesting President, true. However, he is not the ultra conservative superman his present image portrays.
He spent and spent. He did not cut. And honestly, I have to wonder about the 2nd term, as he did die of Altzheimer's. The flub during, if I am remembering correctly
, one of the debates before the 2nd term is quite telling... (Where he totally forgot what he was saying and bumbled for several minutes.)
The Iran Contra stuff was done, illegally, and was admitted to by Bush I, conveniently after the statue of limitations.
People forget he was a Californian Republican through and through. If he was a recent Republican in the South, holding a seat in Congress, he would have been called a RINO and would have faced stiff competition from a Tea Party candidate. Probably would have lost in the last elections.