By Doug Fabrizio
Salt Lake City, UT – Since their first debate in early 2007, Republican candidates have been invoking the name of Ronald Reagan to prove their true conservatism. In a recent ad, the apparent Republican nominee John McCain says he was "inspired by Ronald Reagan" and that he "enlisted as a foot soldier in the Reagan Revolution." Even Obama has compared himself to the iconic president. Monday on RadioWest, Doug talks to the biographer Lou Cannon about the real Reagan and about how today's politicians measure up.
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