[radioman]

Ron Paul is not a conservative; he’s a libertarian. They are not the same thing.

The Conservative movement was founded by libertarians. If you're not libertarian you're just a faux conservative.
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[Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus]

The Conservative movement was founded by libertarians. If you're not libertarian you're just a faux conservative.

So, being for traditional social values and against open borders (while philosophical libertarians generally tend to the opposite) makes one a "faux conservative"? What planet did you say you were from again?

[inkling]

The Conservative movement was founded by libertarians. If you're not libertarian you're just a faux conservative.

Wow... you may need a remedial Poli-Sci course. Libertarians have only existed as a party since 1971, for crying out loud.

[FightThePower!]

Correct, government is the problem.

[ProCivitas]

False. Modern (post-1776)Conservatism is generally traced to Edmund Burke(’Reflections on the Revolution in France’). The contemporary American Conservative movement (post-mid-1950s) is generally traced to Russell Kirk (’The Conservative Mind’), Wm. F. Buckley Jr., elements of the Old Right(e.g. Robt. Taft), libertarians, and general anti-communist/anti-totalitarians.