George Will: ‘What I did see at CPAC was the rise of the libertarian strand of Republicanism’ [VIDEO

Daily Caller ^ | March 17, 2013 | Jeff Poor

[Rufus2007]

On this Sunday’s broadcast of ABC’s “This Week with George Stephanopoulos,” Washington Post columnist George Will criticized a New York Times article by Jim Rutenberg and Richard Stevenson that suggested the Conservative Political Action Conference revealed deep divisions in the conservative movement.

“First, here’s The New York Times headline on the CPAC conference: ‘GOP divisions fester at conservative retreat,’” Will said. “Festering an infected wound — it’s awful. I guarantee you, if there were a liberal conclave comparable to this, and there were vigorous debates going on there, The New York Times headline would be ‘Healthy diversity flourishes at the liberal conclave.’”

“Republicans have been arguing — social conservatives and libertarian free-market conservatives — since the 1950s, when the National Review was founded on the idea of the fusion of the two,” he continued. “It has worked before with Ronald Reagan. It can work again. What I did see at CPAC was the rise of the libertarian strand of Republicanism, which has an affected foreign policy that is a pullback from nation-building

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[ansel12]

It shows that I know what libertarianism is about, evidently you don’t know, or else you choose to lie about it and pretend that it doesn’t oppose conservatism and Christianity on social and moral issues like abortion and the homosexual agenda.