Is today's Republican party more in the image of Ronald Reagan or Timothy McVeigh?

**Culture Warrior** · 10-03-2009, 11:10 PM

How far removed is today's Republican party from the positive, optimistic, civil and patriotic Ronald Reagan?

**susisays** · 10-03-2009, 11:10 PM

we are still w/ Ronald Reagan's philosphy!!!!!!!!!!! Timothy McVeigh is no one we respect!

**Good Guy** · 10-03-2009, 11:11 PM

the gop today would be unrecognizable to ronnie. Your assessment of the current gop---while scary---is not that far from tomothy mcveigh's.

**Tom** · 10-03-2009, 11:11 PM

You persist in asking these thought provoking and incendiary questions! Remember that this is yahoo answers, the National Enquirer of political thought and hyperbole first, and a reasonable forum of debate second. Here, there is little difference. In the real world there is an abundance of same with the outcome generally favoring the wicked and the powerful.

**shootsmyownfood** · 10-03-2009, 11:11 PM

Too bad your mother didn't listen to Nancy Reagan.

**Good Guy** · 10-03-2009, 11:11 PM

the gop today would be unrecognizable to ronnie. Your assessment of the current gop---while scary---is not that far from tomothy mcveigh's.

**Ron Brgundy** · 10-03-2009, 11:13 PM

Republicans sometimes scare me with how out of touch with humanity they can be.

**straightds67** · 10-03-2009, 11:15 PM

Your question is more valid than most here think, and it is an apt one.
If true patriot conservatives like Barry Goldwater and yes even Ronald Reagan (although he gets a lot of credit for things beyond his doing, but whatever), Anyway, if THEY could see what is happening to the Republican party today - they would roll over in their graves.

If a Barry Goldwater Republican existed today, America would be a much better place. Sadly, there are none.

**SeÃ±or Chang** · 10-03-2009, 11:20 PM

it's neither. Timothy is way too extreme and Reagan is just a name they throw around like he would agree with them. They're more like the anti-communist brigades in the '50s.