When you're asking a question on if a plethora of "whos" (the tea party) is demonstrating classical liberalism, it helps you, and the responses, to have an example of other who's, to answer your what
Not even Reagan was the "perfect example" of classical conservatism, though he is most often used when pushing a conservative agenda. But Reagan is an appropriate who, when wishing to look towards examples of classical conservatism, and subsequent discussions of such
