Here's an interesting quote
 

Bush senior, to President Mikhail Gorbachev:

"Reagan is a conservative. An extreme conservative. All the blockheads
and dummies are for him, and when he says that something is necessary,
they trust him. But if some Democrat had proposed what Reagan did, with
you, they might not have trusted him."

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20091116/kvh_cohen

Some things are obvious, aren't they?

Too bad Bush Sr had a brain damaged son and let him sit in the big chair.