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"What's your definition of conservative?"

You've got him in your signature. And he was a social conservative, whether you Libs want to admit it or not. He actively sought evangelicals and endorsed their movement. He didn't run away in disgust at them. He was anti-abortion, not "pro-choice". He was anti-drug...are you getting that Libbys? Reagan loathed drug use and drug users and those that tried to justify it. He was pro-Big Military; none of this "militia based adequate defense" crap. He wanted overwhelming force, not "adequate" force. He was a strong advocate for the US using it's influence to push freedom across the world, not isolationist. Yes, he wanted small government, as much as possible anyway. He wasn't prepared to sacrifice all of his other beliefs and goals on the alter of small government, though.

This stings liberarians so much because it's true; socially, they're identical to Democrats....legalized abortion, euthanisia, eugenics, anything-goes morals, drug use. Libertarians are nothing but Democrats that don't want to pay taxes.

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.

"This stings liberarians so much because it's true; socially, they're identical to Democrats....legalized abortion, euthanisia, eugenics, anything-goes morals, drug use. Libertarians are nothing but Democrats that don't want to pay taxes."

I love when they claim that a libertarian society would allow all those things but wouldnt have any of those things. Sure