[FredZarguna]

Nobody said it did.

But it made him "not a liberal."

Claiming someone was not a liberal isn't the same as claiming he was a conservative. He wasn't. He was a liberal in the classical tradition: a libertarian.

[Responsibility2nd]

Libertarians; classical, traditional or today’s modern libertarian.

Useless then. Useless now

[kiryandil]

He [Jefferson] was a liberal in the classical tradition: a libertarian.

I guess us 97ers & 98ers are just very familiar with the "liberal in the classical tradition" discussion.

Some of the newer members must have missed the memo on that. Maybe if they did some reading of the older threads, they wouldn't get so bent out of shape at the reference...