I personally don't understand what was so amazing about him either. Yes he was better than the average president in many ways, but how can you use a bad standard as your measuring stick. I think Reagan was especially a failure on taxes and government spending. From the carter years to Reagan there was vertually no change in the % of gdp going to taxes. Spending virtually doubled during his administration. Basically, Reagan completely ignored the entitlement problem and the fiscal cancer that was going to eat up the future generations.
However, I would really like to know this thing about limbaugh as Reagan is basically a god to limbaugh.