I'm a libertarian-leaning conservative...social conservatives don't get along so well with us. And they're more broken-up about it than we are.
Is that the way you think, as you expressed here about your B.O.?
I was impressed by one thing Obama said...that doesn't make me an Obama supporter.
I can understand that. I was an athletic supporter but that didn't make me a jock.
Nice to hear you are a part-time conservative in some ways, but this is a pro-life site, you know, and when you make comments like these, you brand yourself. People may get the idea you are anti-life if you think it was ok for the State to enforce a death sentence against an innocent like Terri.
I am not a hyphenated-conservative, just a plain old conservative.
Just sayen...
That's because most libertarians aren't conservatives. They are liberals who don't like paying taxes and own guns, those are the only real things they seem to have in common with conservatives.
Libertarians often misunderstand "limited government" and think that it means "no government" and this simply is not the case. The Constitution makes it very clear that its purpose is to, "Secure the Blessings of Liberty" and the most important of these blessing is life, our Founding Fathers were very clear on this.
Amendment V of the Constitution is often thought to only refer to criminal cases, but when you read it, it uses the phrase "no PERSON" and says, "nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation." When the Supreme Court ruled in "Kelo v. City of New London" in 2005, libertarians were up in arms (as were conservatives and rightly so) over this clear violation of the Fifth Amendment, because it clearly violated individual property rights. Yet many of these same libertarians DENIED that Terri's right to life was protected by this same amendment.
From what I've seen, most libertarians could be better described as anarchists than anything else.