He should worry less about hypotheticals on what Reagan would’ve done and more about what Bill Clinton actually did…a member of his own party.
Via Truth Revolt:
In an opinion blog for U.S. News & World Report, Democrat strategist Peter Fenn spoke for President Ronald Reagan, saying he wouldn’t have approved of the religious freedom laws just passed in Indiana and Arkansas.
Pointing to a speech Reagan gave in 1977 in front of the Fourth Conservative Political Action Conference, Fenn states that the new Republican Party Reagan was calling for would not include many of its members today, whom he believes might be “in the grips of religious fanatics.”
Fenn used this quote from Reagan’s speech to bolster his claim:
Conservatism is the antithesis of the kind of ideological fanaticism that has brought so much horror and destruction to the world. The common sense and common decency of ordinary men and women, working out their own lives in their own way — this is the heart of American conservatism today. Conservative wisdom and principles are derived from willingness to learn, not just from what is going on now, but from what has happened before.
Fenn admits that “as a life-long Democrat and a liberal,” he never cared for Reagan as president, especially “the movement of his party to the right.” Fenn prefers moderate and “reasonable” Republicans. Emphasizing that Reagan was addressing factory workers and black voters in a plea for embracing conservatism, Fenn quotes another section of the speech: