[Katya]

"Libertarians are conservatives without morals or values."

That's just such an idiotic statment....I don't know where to start.

This is what I dislike about the political label "conservative". It's meaning is completely transient. In the former Soviet Republics a conservative would be a..........

Communist!

In that case you're right....I don't have the morals or values of a Russian communist.

[JURB]

I think the point here is that it is not neccesarily a question of libertarianism vs. conservatism, but that it is quite possible to reconcile both. In my own case, I am very comfortable in describing myself as leaning towards libertarianism of the small 'l' variety politically (I do make concessions to federalism), while being philosophically and attitudinally conservative. I see nothing inconcongruous with such a positition. I can both reject the big government nanny state, while respecting authority, traditional institutions, behavioral norms and accumulated wisdom. It is big government that undermines these things.