I agree with you on that. I am certainly what one would call a Reagan - Limbaugh - Levin conservative, in belief and priority and tone. As such, there are times when I am attacked by both the social ONLY crowd, and the libertarian crowd.
Here are my observations, especially with respect to FR. The libertarian crowd will attack on issues of substantive disagreement, normally on issues of foreign policy or social issues. They rarely even bother to debate much on matters of degree, strategy, prorities. It gets nasty sometimes, but not often.
But the social ONLY crowd, repeat, social ONLY crowd, will attack even when the disagreement is on strategy or tactics or matter of degree or priority. And this crowd is almost always nasty, and almost always accuses me (us) of secretly being liberal, RINO, gay, pro abort, etc.
Now keep in mind that philsophicaly, I am more in line with the social ONLY crowd than the libertarian crowd, being a Reagan type conservative. And yet, the nastiest, most petulant, paranoid, infantile and just awful attacks come from this crowd.
Amazing.
But the social ONLY crowd, repeat, social ONLY crowd,
Social "only"? And who would you be referring to, pray tell? I don't know any freepers that could be described thusly.
I don't really expect a response from you, since I'm a knuckle dragging gap toothed high school dropout, not versed in sophistry, word jugglery and fancy twistations of the English language. I think you might win the prize of the freeper with the least actual content and most bombast and insult in his comments.