re: #23 Renaissance_Man

My understanding is that the belief that American liberals are the most evil of all enemies, responsible for all wickedness and barely even human, started during his time. Since this is the only tenet of the modern American Conservative, it makes sense that they would pay homage to their founding father.

It was Reagan who brought the religious right on board as a reliable GOP voting bloc. In fact, he almost created it from a howling mob of televangelists and cranky ideologues.
I commented on this at some length last August. This is also a pretty good exposition of where I am coming from here (it was also my highest rated LGF comment).