Ronnie was a rightwinger of the most obnoxious kind, he supported the unamerican committee, he supported the Nixon anticommunist hysteria and he supported the Hollywood blacklist, he supported the Vietnam war and Pol Pot, the trade sanctions against Cuba, and Nicaragua. He armed Iran AND Iraq , in short he was a neo-fascist and anti-democracy, he spun his hometown bullshit in the Midwest and Washington, he traded on his simple cowboy image but in reality he was a puppet in the hands and control of the moguls and he did their bidding. In my opinion he is no loss and I will not mourn his passing one iota.
Fergus