Gay Soldier: Ronald Reagan

Rick Perry Dept: Primary voters in the United States have always been far more ideologically extreme than the general electorate, but the current crop determining the Republican presidential race have taken matters to the next level thanks to the rise of the Tea Party movement and its politically engaged adherents, according to Winnipeg Free Press. "Especially now, you end up losing in primaries if you're reasonable and moderate, so the whole phenomenon can end up resulting in a much more extreme candidate and a much more extreme, fractured Congress down the line." WASHINGTON - They have jeered a gay soldier, cheered the 234 executions Rick Perry presided over as governor of Texas and hooted their agreement that those who fail to buy health insurance should be allowed to die rather than receive state-financed medical care. "If Ronald Reagan was running for president right now, he'd be far too liberal and too moderate for these people; he probably wouldn't have stood a chance of getting the nomination," Matthew Eshbaugh-Soha, a politics professor at the University of North Texas in Denton, Tex., said Tuesday of the late president widely lionized by the right. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.