[Zionist Conspirator]

Thank you, CatoRenasci. You have given the most detailed and reasoned response to my inquiry.

However, the question still remains. Why would America's counterparts of Ultramontanism (Sobran, for example) adopt the very un-Catholic, un-Ultramontanist doctrine of rights libertarianism as their message? Why not simply shout "Throne and Altar?" I believe at least the elder (late) Brent Bozell openly identified with the Spanish Carlists and refrained from posing as Thomas Jefferson.

For whatever reason the First and Third strands of conservatism you mention seem to have blended into a single stream. But it still doesn't make any sense.

[KC Burke]

For another take on exactly who is out of step or inconsistant, see Thomas Sowell's references to Rights and understandings thereof in A Conflict of visions. Sowell contends, IMHO, that is libertarians themselves who are outside those of The Constrained Vision of mankind wherein he casts as conservatives of any strip. On Rights, he contends they stand with Rousseau, Marx and all of the Unconstrained Vision...a significant inconsistancy.