Ron Paul ca 1987: Reagan has 'no credibility'

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Washington Examiner:

Gov. Rick Perry, R-Texas, should give his opposition researchers a raise. In response to an ad from Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, that attacks Perry for supporting a 1988 Al Gore presidential run while reminding voters of Paul's support for Reagan, the Perry campaign dropped this bomb: a year before Perry supported Gore as a conservative Democrat, Paul wrote a letter of resignation from the Republican Party that protested President Reagan's policies.

In fact, Paul went so far as to write that “there is no credibility left for the Republican Party as a force to reduce the size of government. That is the message of the Reagan years.”

In the letter, Paul makes a series of attacks on Reagan's agenda. In Paul's defense, those criticism align with his current policy positions:

"Ronald Reagan and the Republican Party have given us skyrocketing deficits, and astoundingly a doubled national debt."

Of course, Paul is attacking President Obama for the same reasons today. He has been rock solid in his belief that the federal government is too big and spending too much, and that Republicans and Democrats have caused that problem for decades. But now he's in the position of explaining how, despite Republican primary voters opinion to the contrary, he thinks that Reagan and Obama are alike.