Reagan's popularity only proves one thing, an actor is your best choice for a president.  We should elect Morgan Freeman president, he was great in that role in Deep Impact.  I doubt he would dismantle the public health system, ignore a raging outbreak of a deadly virus like AIDS or viscously attack the poor and the working class, wreck the economy and produce a record national debt. But even if he did we'd all remember him as a great president.

Frankly, I don't expect there to ever be another American president... I hope I'm wrong but I think the Republicans are gonna just declare themselves permanently in power and toss out the concept of free elections. And we'll all say what a great president and yes of course it had to be this way because of those pesky terrorists... Democrats after all are just liberal treasonous terrorist sympathizers and should be all killed (according to Rush Limbaugh himself, though he did say we should keep one or two alive to remind the Fatherland's good people what monsters they were).

The one thing GW shares with Reagan - Reagan was also a terrible Governor just before becoming President. I lived in California at the time and I actually was afraid Reagan was insane.  We need to hire better actors as President, it's the only way to keep the people from realizing they're being taken for fools...

Don't mean to offend anyone, you're welcome to your own opinions.