It's when Goldbrick says things like this that he proves his email correspondents to be right. Goldjerk doesn't "get it". Nor does he understand Hayek.
Hayek didn't believe in the primacy of liberty. In tradition of his mentor Mises, he believed in the primacy of the market. He believed that the only way to determine what is right was by letting the market determine it.
Hayek was humble enough to be a conservative. But he was a conservative because he believed that tradition was the distilled wisdom of the market. That is we observe our traditions because they work. This is because other competing traditions failed in the marketplace of cultures.
People like Greenbacks who call themselves conservatives without making reference to the traditions of our culture are liars. And they most certainly are not Hayekian.
"I make no pretense that conservatism is always right. It has its flaws, as Hayek underscored when he said that it tends to get pulled in a direction not of its own choosing. But, it seems to me equally ridiculous to say that libertarianism is always right — freedom is not always first. At least conservatism, through its humility, is flexible enough to recognize this fact. Mr. Browne wants a simple and consistent philosophy of life. So do I. The only trouble is life keeps getting in the way."
I take that as Hayek underscored that conservatism has it's flaws. I do not read Goldberg saying Hayek subscribed to primacy of liberty.
He was responding to Harry Browne when he stated "primacy of liberty" in his - Freedom First -piece (I linked earlier in this thread).