Pro-homosexual agenda, pro-abortion, Islam-enabling, drug tolerant/or using people who want to enfeeble and emasculate the military.
The only good thing is they want lower taxes.
From a 1975 interview with then Governor Ronald Reagan:
REASON: Governor Reagan, you have been quoted in the press as saying that you’re doing a lot of speaking now on behalf of the philosophy of conservatism and libertarianism. Is there a difference between the two?
REAGAN: If you analyze it I believe the very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism. I think conservatism is really a misnomer just as liberalism is a misnomer for the liberals–if we were back in the days of the Revolution, so-called conservatives today would be the Liberals and the liberals would be the Tories. 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.
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. I believe there are legitimate government functions. There is a legitimate need in an orderly society for some government to maintain freedom or we will have tyranny by individuals. The strongest man on the block will run the neighborhood. We have government to insure that we don’t each one of us have to carry a club to defend ourselves. But again, I stand on my statement that I think that libertarianism and conservatism are travelling the same path.
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Your characterization of libertarians is entirely incorrect. You obviously missed the one of the key concepts of liberty and freedom - that allowing freedom does not necessarily indicate support for the actions of other people. I presume you are for freedom of religion - if so does that make you a supporter of radical Islam? Or the Westboro Baptist Church? Why not? Well, because you can be for freedom without being "for" what some people choose to do with that freedom.
Of course if you think Ronald Reagan was a "Pro-homosexual agenda, pro-abortion, Islam-enabling, drug tolerant/or using [person] who want[ed] to enfeeble and emasculate the military" then I guess you are welcome to your opinion.
1. I don’t think Reagan was perfect or God.
2. I am sure Reagan would not go for the Libertarian agenda as stated by libertarians on this thread or on its websites.
Homosexual marriage? Kid adoption? In the military? Islam is our friend? He’d like that?
Sheesh.
LOL, Reagan proceeds to distance himself from libertarians in that interview, that is why the interviewer keeps getting back to economics.
Where are all the other libertarian writings and speeches by the Republican icon, Ronald Reagan, why is that little 1975 interview with a libertarian magazine, so lonely, in the Reagan history?