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To: CWOJackson
"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." --Ronald Reagan in an interview published in Reason (July 01, 1975)

I wouldn't exactly call Reagan "someone perpetually pi$$ed off about something and want a better term to call them self then "sourpuss"."

143 posted on 11/07/2006 12:02:05 PM PST by Small-L ("Government is not the answer to our problems -- government IS the problem." -- RR)
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To: Small-L

I wouldn't call Reagan a sourpuss either. He was downright beaming whenever he signing tough anti-drug laws.


164 posted on 11/07/2006 3:06:45 PM PST by CWOJackson
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