[ansel12]

If one isn’t social conservative, then one is not conservative, they are just a liberal who approves of conservative economics, that is why the half to 2/3rds liberal, and part conservatives came up with the name, libertarian, it is a comfort zone for liberals that like the economics of conservatism.

[LibLieSlayer]

You are correct 100%. While most of us are fiscal Conservatives and Constitutional Conservatives and seek limited government and return to our Founding principles, some of us are Social Conservatives also. We are becoming outcasts here on FR. Not by Jim or those that run this fine place... but just look and see the evil of romney that is infecting the pages of this community. Evil begets evil and demons walk amongst us.

LLS

[truth_seeker]

http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2004/06/ronald_reagan_t.html

Ronald Reagan the Libertarian

by Alex Tabarrok on June 7, 2004 at 7:10 am in Current Affairs | Permalink

Here’s a wonderful quote from Reagan in 1975 from Reason magazine.

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.