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Ronald Reagan: Republican Party
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Reagan managed to win the Republican nomination for U.S. President in 1980, naming George Bush as his running mate, despite Bush's sarcastic criticism of Reagan's untested economic proposals as "voodoo economics." He then defeated incumbent Jimmy Carter in the general election, and became president.
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In 1980, Reagan won the Republican nomination for President, handily winning most of the primaries after an early defeat in the Iowa caucuses. During the convention, Reagan proposed a complex power-sharing arrangement with Gerald Ford as Vice President, but nothing came of it. Instead, Reagan selected his opponent in the primaries, George H. W. Bush, who was a former Congressional Representative, United Nations ambassador, Envoy to China, RNC Chairman, and CIA director—although Bush had declared that he would never be Reagan's Vice President.
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Though already governor of one of the largest states in the union, Reagan continued to look at the bigger picture. At both the 1968 and 1974 Republican National Conventions, Reagan was considered a potential presidential candidate.
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The point is not that every detail of the current Republican administration’s policies can be traced to the Reagan period. The present administration, after all, is far more arrogant, far more indifferent to all realities except its own ideological logic, far more contemptuous of foreign opinion.
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