Ronald Reagan was as conservative as anyone and it was never a problem.
Back in his day, yes. Nowadays he'd be considered a socialist.
What?
He's making a comparison of Obama and Reagan. Conservatives keep making the claim of Obama being a socialist, with little to no evidence backing it up. Reagan nowadays would be considered a moderate conservative. He proposed amnesty to illegal immigrants, an assault weapons ban, and the closure of tax loopholes on the rich. He sayed "a millionaire has no business paying less than a bus driver in taxes." in other words, Obama has proposed a lot of things that past Republican Presidents and party members supported. but now that Obama supports them, they are bad and "European Style Socialism."