[Slyfox]

Actually, it is not the Republican Party who is dissing Ronald Reagan, it is the handful of political advisors (like Rove) and their hopefuls (like Jeb and Mitt) and their donors who think that the only way to get their campaigns going is to step on the Gipper.

Most of the Party is made up of TEA Party and old Reagan (used-to-be) democrats. It is just those in leadership positions, the country-clubbers, who try to convince everyone that they speak for the entire GOP.

A very useful exercise that hardly anyone takes me up on, is to compare both the party platforms. The Republican Party platform is put together by the grassroots TEA Party-types. WE are the Party and it is truly reflected in the platform. And that is why the country-clubbers try to minimize its effect.

The Republican platform is getting more and more conservative every four years. :)

[GeronL]

and who keeps putting them in leadership positions if they are such a small minority [question mark]