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To: VaBthang4

Hey Vag, did you know that Ronald Reagan called libertarianism the heart and soul of conservatism?


46 posted on 07/25/2004 10:05:20 AM PDT by jmc813 (Help save a life - www.marrow.org)
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To: jmc813; VaBthang4
Hey Vag, did you know that Ronald Reagan called libertarianism the heart and soul of conservatism?

Your question was evidently way too painful to acknowledge.

Here's the passage in question, from a 1975 interview in Reason Magazine:

"If you analyze it I believe the very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism. ....... The basis of conservatism is a desire for less government interference or less centralized authority or more individual freedom and this is a pretty general description also of what libertarianism is. ........ I think that libertarianism and conservatism are travelling the same path."

- Ronald Reagan

95 posted on 07/27/2004 9:01:01 AM PDT by Mr. Mojo
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To: jmc813; VaBthang4
In context, please! That statement was followed by:

"Now, I can’t say that I will agree with all the things that the present group who call themselves Libertarians in the sense of a party say, because I think that like in any political movement there are shades, and there are libertarians who are almost over at the point of wanting no government at all or anarchy."

That's twice, jmc813. You're reminding me of MrLeRoy, and that's not a compliment.

96 posted on 07/27/2004 9:05:33 AM PDT by robertpaulsen
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To: jmc813; VaBthang4
Hey Vag, did you know that Ronald Reagan called libertarianism the heart and soul of conservatism? -jmc

One-hit wonder.... vag has nothing else to add, and probably wouldn't recognize truth, if he saw it.

But, ha... ha... ha... for these puerile attempts at humor!

(I think I'll fire up the bong, and try to verify those results!)

151 posted on 07/29/2004 6:01:27 AM PDT by pageonetoo (Rush didn't know! Now, we all know! He probably broke the law! But, rushbots don't care! He's Rush!)
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