Those who watched "Family Ties" years ago would recognize this as the writing of the conservative views of Alex Keaton played by Michael J. Fox. The character was a "conservative" as many viewed the term, well close in my view, but NKR (Not Quite Right.) As I remember he was a conservative as liberals see us.
It’s been almost 20 years since “Family Ties” went off the air. And Alex P. Keaton’s political idols, Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan, have each gone off to their deserved places in history. Yet I still get asked a lot — O.K. maybe not a lot but more than twice — whether Alex Keaton would be a Republican today. And, if so, who would be his candidate in the 2008 presidential election.
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Alex Keaton was a true conservative Republican. He was for limited government. He was strongly against government involvement in the personal lives of its citizens. He was competent and capable — the ultimate over-achiever. But, above all Alex Keaton was a firm believer in the power of ideas. He believed in the competitive marketplace of intellectual discourse, where the best ideas win — usually Alex’s. And so it’s difficult to recognize in this current incarnation of the Republican Party, a party whose legacy will include Terri Schiavo and Hurricane Katrina, a place where Alex Keaton might feel the least bit comfortable............
Comedy Stop: What Would Alex Keaton Do?
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Departed liberal Molly Ivins foresaw (had an advance copy of the script...)
The funny, and typical, thing, is that she saw this story coming. She may even be responsible for it, a self-fulfilling Molly Ivins prophecy. It would be interesting to go back and see who in the Democratic Party read her column of Jan. 20, 2006, dateline Austin, distributed nationally by Creators Syndicate. It began:
“I’d like to make it clear to the people who run the Democratic Party that I will not support Hillary Clinton for president . . . Sen. Clinton is apparently incapable of taking a clear stand on the war in Iraq, and that alone is enough to disqualify her. Her failure to speak out on Terri Schiavo, not to mention that gross pandering on flag-burning, are just contemptible little dodges . . . “
In Texas, an Ivins-fulfilling prophecy
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