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This country began on Social Conservatism that would make your head spin today, and conservative economics.

No, actually this country began on and was fueled by Classical Liberalism in both Economic and Social Policy:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_liberalism

In the United States, liberalism took a strong root because it had little opposition to its ideals, whereas in Europe liberalism was opposed by many reactionary interests. In a nation of farmers, especially farmers whose workers were slaves, little attention was paid to the economic aspects of liberalism. Thomas Jefferson adopted many of the ideals of liberalism but, in the Declaration of Independence, changed Locke's "life, liberty, and property" to the more socially liberal "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness".[35] As America grew, industry became a larger and larger part of American life; and, during the term of America's first populist president, Andrew Jackson, economic questions came to the forefront. The economic ideas of the Jacksonian era were almost universally the ideas of classical liberalism. Freedom was maximised when the government took a "hands off" attitude toward industrial development and supported the value of the currency by freely exchanging paper money for gold. The ideas of classical liberalism remained essentially unchallenged until a series of depressions, thought to be impossible according to the tenets of classical economics, led to economic hardship from which the voters demanded relief. In the words of William Jennings Bryan, "You shall not crucify the American farmer on a cross of gold." Classical liberalism remained the orthodox belief among American businessmen until the Great Depression.[36] The Great Depression saw a sea change in liberalism, leading to the development of modern liberalism.

Doubtful you'll comprehend this. You probably won't even read it and just live your life thinking 'Classical Liberalism' is just another brand of Statism.

Sometimes I wonder whether you are actually just a bot which has basically taken some of the Big L-Libertarian Party platform and turned it into one big bundle of anti-slogans. It's all I've seen you repeat for the last 6 years. Do you really enjoy being that intellectually dishonest?

>> Classical Liberalism

A lengthy article was posted recently written by a “Classic Liberal” of the David Horowitz kind. It was written in the ‘90s, but topical nonetheless:

LEFTISTS
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3070625/posts

“It is classical Liberalism, not conservatism (whatever that entails), nor Libertarianism, which can mount an ideological counterattack on Marxist collectivism.”