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Respectfully, we disagree on what a true conservative is. I simply wish to conserve the Constitution, as written and intended, as strictly as possible. I think we'd both agree that doing so would be a good thing and would get rid of a lot of the nonsense the Left has been able to impose through big government.

If you re-read my postings about drug laws, you'll see that I do not in any way want to lower moral standards. I simply want the government to be massively reduced in its scope and power. Yes, this would result in a few things being technically legal that you or I might not morally support being so. It would also totally dismantle the federal government monopoly on education, abortion law, gun laws, business law and now health care.

In the name of 'morality' you seem to be missing the larger picture. I suggest that Libertarianism is not 'liberal' at all. I do agree that the GOP establishment is too far to the left and loses elections by being 'liberalism light'. I want the GOP to demolish the Statist monster, not slightly bend it towards its own aims. The Left controls our schools, our culture, and the very narrative of national discourse and the daily bureaucracies that regulate and enforce political correctness and federal control over our lives. I support dismantling ALL of that. Freedom of association, freedom of religion, freedom of speech - restored fully. That is radical, and I consider it to be more conservative and well to the right of the current Republican or Evangelical conservative establishment.

Conservatism should be about checking and reducing government power and championing the freedoms our Founders so wisely recognized and fought for. Let our morality be enforced by our words, our example, our churches, our media. Give us the freedom to take the country back from a government-imposed minority viewpoint and orthodoxy. If we could somehow return to being a truly free nation, I would gladly accept the few things that would be made legal that I disagree with.