You forgot the Christian Conservative Republicans (Rc) who are the direct opposite of the libertarians. They want the government to intervene in personal, private and business affairs and they want the government to restrict life, liberty, and property of individuals. They believe that government should spend money on what they perceive as social problems.
Good Point! Rc = a subset of the Small-r who are using the Big-Rs to further their theocrat agenda.
I think you meant Christian Liberal Republicans. Christian Conservatives know that the Bible places the mandate for caring for the poor squarely on the shoulders of individual Christians and the Church. That has never been the government's responsibility biblically.
When people in this country were more familiar with God's word, they helped those who needed a hand, not by throwing money at the problem but by giving them what they needed to make it on their own. Today too many liberals think the government should do all the work.
The Bible says, them that won't work, should not eat and that we as individuals, and as a church, should help those we find who need help. The government has no personal dealings with individual people. The system is not set up to work that way. It only hands out money with very little personal follow up. Whereas responsible and vigilant church members can actually see how well the help they provide is working.
That is the way things worked before FDR. Now so many people have been on the government dole for so long that even some in the church forget who was actually given the command to help the sick, the poor, the widows, and the fatherless. We should not allow the government to take from those who aren't necessarily Christians to do the work we Christians have been commanded to do.
"They believe that government should spend money on what they perceive as social problems."
The curtain that Ashcroft used to cover the statue of a naked female probably did not cost too much. ;-)
Small r republican with libertarian leanings here, saying again that if the Republican party does not unite around what we have in common, we will have Hillary in 08 (maybe with Barry Obama aka Barak Obama as VP).
Christian hater.