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"The answer is in my statements like these:

I've already stated that FR will probably become even more conservative than it already is, through attrition if nothing else. Besides continuing to champion the defense of America, FR just might become the "Conservative Conscience of the Republican Party," ie, we may become a real thorn in the side of moderate/liberal Republicanism. Someone has to try defend the party from completely tossing out traditional American conservatism. Might as well be us.

How many times must I say FR is a conservative site? We do not support abortionism, homosexualism, feminisim, environmentalism, gun control, liberalism, socialism, etc, etc, etc. When I say I suspect we will become even more conservative than we already are, possibly via attrition if nothing else, what do you think I'm referring to? When FR starts pushing hard and I mean hard against abortion, gay marriage, homosexual education forced on our school children, pandering to illegal aliens, gun control, McCaine-Feingold type usurpation, global warming, etc, etc, even if supported or advanced by the GOP, then I fully suspect certain types of moderate/liberal Republican supporters are probably going to be a little uncomfortable here. We will be fighting for traditional American conservatism no matter who we have to fight against and I'm afraid that's going to piss off some folks.

And I'll borrow a slogan used by the NFRA that I realy like:

"We are the 'Republican' Wing of the Republican Party!""

And that is why FR is yours. Thank you Mr. Robinson!!

We will be fighting for traditional American conservatism no matter who we have to fight against and I'm afraid that's going to piss off some folks.

What exactly is your definition of "conservatism"? My definition is a desire for less government control over our lives and more individual freedom.

"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".

--Ronald Reagan

Here's the entire Reagan interview from Reason in July 1975.

Heck, if Rudy can invoke my idol's name ad nauseam, why can't I? When did Reagan, Goldwater, Frank Meyer or Buckley ever mention homos? I have many concerns about Giuliani as President, but I'm sick and tired of people disqualifying him for President because he slept on a couch at the townhouse of a friend who happened to be gay. Don't confuse the hundreds of millions of voting Americans with someone who actually gives a crap about that. Give me a legitimate, logical policy argument. Guns, gay marriage, abortion are fair game.