GOP in wilderness because leaders left Reagan legacy behind years ago

(By Mark Tapscott, Washington Examiner) - Excuse me, Jeb Bush, but your daddy and brother already helped push the Republican Party beyond “the good old days” of its Reagan legacy, and we all see how well that’s been working for the GOP since 2006, don’t we.

And excuse me, Gen. Colin Powell, but which election did you win because “Americans are looking for more government in their lives, not less …”?

Forgive me if I seem a bit cranky here, but, being a card-carrying Reaganaut since 1964, it’s hard not to be whenever the national media lectures the GOP on how to regain voters’ trust. Inevitably, the advice involves abandonment of Ronald Reagan and the core conservative principles he advanced.