People in line waiti…

People in line waiting to view Reagan’s casket show how broad his appeal was.

Though brief, the time in the library was enough for Scotia Alves, 51, of Camarillo, who said she and her husband started a car stereo company in their garage at the beginning of Reagan’s presidency.

“Reaganomics was good for business. … I felt gratitude to him,” she said.

Charles Shelton, 38, a Los Angeles lawyer, was struck by the range of people.

“It’s a testament, how broad his appeal was,” said Shelton, who voted for Green Party candidate Ralph Nader in 2000 and plans to vote for Democrat John Kerry but called himself a “Reagan Republican.”

“He’s a different type of Republican …,” Shelton said. “He was tough, yet graceful.”

Salvador Ayala, 74, came from Simi Valley with three other veterans.

“He won the Cold War without firing a shot. He was the greatest president that we ever had, and I’m a Democrat,” said Ayala, who served in the Korean War.

I think this is proof that, deep down, most Americans are, in fact, conservative. While some eschew labels and others have individual issues in which they lean or swing left, I think generally the common sense of most folks stands pretty well conservative. Yeah, you still have your socialists out there, but Reagan’s dual landslides prove my point more than the socialists disprove it.

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