Who would Alex support for President in '12?

Alex would have a big problem with today's GOP.

He was not a bible thumper. He was concerned with making money. But he would not put up with people who mocked the president because of his ethnicity and/or percieved religion. He'd have a BIG problem with that.

There is no way he would have supported either Bachmann or Cain.

*Reagan was actually friends with then-speaker Tip O'Neil (Democrat) despite party differences.


*And Alex had a picture of Nixon above his bed----Nixon signed laws establishing the EPA, supporting public funding of PBS, supporting public funding of birth control, vocational rehabiltation for people with disabilities. Nixon also supported affirmative action hiring policies And the tax rate was at least twice as high as it is today.

I think Alex would have pulled a Jim Jeffords and switched parties. The current GOP would have scared him.

Forget voting for prez in 2012.....Alex P. Keaton would have RUN for president and won by a landslide. Conservative, adorable little fvcker.

Alex's republican party is dead! As far as presidential politics goes!

"Forget voting for prez in 2012.....Alex P. Keaton would have RUN for president and won by a landslide. Conservative, adorable little fvcker."

Exactly!! Although more mainstream in the 80's, Alex's views would be considered extreme by (ironically) the more extreme members of the left who have become more vocal the last two decades. To address the OP's question... he may have supported the candidates you mentioned in theory. But I believe he would probably be running and win himself :) The GOP isnt as competent as it once was, but he'd still run that way as it still beats the Dems best ideals any day of the week and twice on Sunday.

President Keaton...lol. He was usually able to stump his parents, but I liked how they still did so much for him and loved him despite their differences. Where has that ideology's moderation gone?



"How's the steak?" "It was poisoned (argh)...and a little rare" (collapses).

Michael J. Fox was born in Canada. Did he ever become an American citizen so he can vote?

Since he's a huge fiscal conservative I'm positive he would have voted for Romney, both in the general election and in the primaries

Problem. Alex P. Keaton actually *was* born in Africa!

I'm fascinated by Alex's character, because he kinda seems a bit inconsistent. He's famously presented as a Reagan-loving conservative, when he comes across more of just a big business-loving libertarian at best. He doesn't really seem to imbue the social conservatism that was also going on during that time. Really, outside of the economics sphere, he doesn't seem to be much of a conservative at all. You know, I'm not saying this to like make some of sort grand political statement, but he kinda reminds me of Trump a little bit. Outside of business and economics, he doesn't really seem to have moral center. Or at least, it's contrived to fit whatever scenario the episode calls for. It's like the writers WANTED a conservative, to contrast with the liberal parents, but outside of the concept that was pitched to the networks, they don't really seem to deliver. Even the parents don't really seem LIBERAL so much as just quirky and open-minded compared to the stereotypical parents of the day.

Also...I remember watching reruns of this show in the 90s. Now that I'm watching it as an adult (free on Prime), I'm noticing that Alex is a lot more of a jerk than I ever noticed as a kid. I think I was just watching the show with my "I LOVE MICHAEL J FOX" goggles.

There is more in you of good than you know, child of the kindly west