So in answer to Steve's entirely cogent point, you post . . . wait for it . . . a quotation from the guy who wrote the article that's engendering this discussion, a quotation that has zero to do with the point Steve did actually make.
Makes perfect sense.
Mr. Kirk's writing has the gamey smell of someone who's paid by the syllable.
Great responses, everyone. This thread should be the nail in the coffin for the GOPers desperately blaming the Libertarians for their shortcomings.
I guess most people here are too young to recognize that Russell Kirk was one of the greats of 20th-century intellectual American conservatism. He was more toward what some would consider the traditionalist end of the conservative spectrum.