Who could actually keep a straight face? The Gipper would be laughing his butt off too.
John Dickerson explained Obama’s rationale and the GOP retort: “By using that Republican icon he’s trying to paint Mitt Romney and his Republican colleagues as so unfair that even Ronald Reagan wouldn’t agree with them. Republicans point out that when Reagan called for fairness it was part of a much larger tax cut and tax reform programs that Barack Obama probably would not support.”
