[FITZ]

I don't think Reagan ever represented "country club Republicans" --- in fact it was that type who turned off his mike when he demanded it be turned back on. Reagan was a true Conservative --- but he actually had gay friends like Rock Hudson even though he wouldn't have promoted the homosexual agenda. Maybe he saw the good in people.

[Little Bill]

I don't think so either but people of his era, my father for example; a couple of years younger, were much further to the left than my grandfather or I for that matter.

Modern Conservatism is defined by the Goldwater agenda and revulsion to the 60's agenda. Reagan was the first to exemplify this and I don't think that, in his second term, he was well served by his advisor's.