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I keep Reagan's 11th Commandment that I don't run down other Republicans.

I'm a Reagan Republican, which means I don't speak ill of other Republicans.

I am a Reagan Republican.

President Reagan, of course, did more than any other person to entrench the Republican reputation for toughness on national security.

By supporting Reagan, evangelicals were not supporting womanizing or divorce, but they were endorsing Reagan's policies.

Again and again as president, Reagan let it slip that he concurred with fundamentalists' belief that the world would end in a fiery Armageddon. This did not hurt him politically. The kind of people offended by such talk had already largely abandoned the Republican Party.

I think we need one recognized, respected public figure to make a tough, blunt statement on just what Reagan's record is and what he might do to the country, let alone the Republican Party before Christmas.

Although Ronald Reagan was somebody I disagreed with on most ideological things, he was a friend of mine, and he was a very, very likable man. Ronald Reagan, for instance, was maybe more able to get the very rich to do the right thing sometimes.

Ronald Reagan wasn't in the establishment of the Republican Party either, nor was Richard Nixon.

It's time for conservative Americans to do what Reagan did.