It is Ronald Reagan's 100th Birthday

And from the looks of things, the poor senile bastard is well on his way to Public Sainthood.

Maybe they ought to name a reliable high end brand of men's hair coloring after him or rouge one or the other.
Pundits love occasions like this because it allows them the opportunity to indulge in their favorite sport the generation of rhetorical questions. Lou Cannon for example is quoted in Today's Boston Globe wondering "if" Ronald Reagan would be comfortable with "today's GOP"?
My guess is, the late President would be fine with it.
First and foremost Reagan was an A-List opportunistic windbag, most of the four myths of modern conservatism (those being Christian Politics, Rugged Individualism, the Virtue of Small Government and myth of Conservative Grievance) were all forged at one time or another by Reagan.
If his heirs seek to make corrupt mockery of his commandments or use them to make a hash of the US Constitution, well the man has been measured for his harp and cannot enforce order among his political progeny even if he was ever so inclined.
No...What Lou Cannon is really asking is, "can today's pundit ever be comfortable with the modern GOP?"
I mean lord knows they do bend over backwards for hopelessly inane dingbats like John Boehner and Newt Gingrich...and what does it get them?
Bupkiss that what they get.
Otherwise the base screams for pundit blood when the news runs bad for the Republicans while the so called leadership chuckle and make veiled threats against "The Liberal Media".
Twenty years of bending over backwards for this rabble hasn't done much good for the punditariat, hence their ambivalence.
That doesn't stop them from toadying on and on...but it does give them qualms.
None of which is the case when the democrats are in power, the media demonstrates it's even handedness by carpet bombing the liberals every time.
My advise to the democrats is simple, you can't make nice to lackey's and expect them to "man up" any time soon, cut them dead and see if the shock does em' any good sex Humble Elias.