NBC's Gregory: Would Reagan Be Able to 'Exist' in 'Today's Republican Party'?

Kyle Drennen | March 11, 2013
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During an interview with former Florida Governor Jeb Bush for Sunday's NBC Meet the Press, moderator David Gregory referenced Bush being at the Reagan Presidential Library and employed the tired liberal talking point that Ronald Reagan would be too moderate for the modern GOP: "...the president you speak of and so many conservatives do, raised taxes, was for immigration reform, that a lot of modern-day conservatives would – would find quite distasteful. Could he exist? Could he get elected in today's Republican Party? Or would he be seen as a liberal?"

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