I was wondering when Free Republic became a libertarian site. My browser still brings up a completely conservative manifesto, right down to sodomite “marriage”, immigration, etc.
You need to refresh your web cash... Just kidding. Free republic is a conservative site. American Conservatives are just libertarians on most issues.
It's not. The belief comes from the meglomania that creates libertarians. Most of us probably leaned libertarian when we were in college because we thought we were smarter than everyone else. Those of us who really were smart became conservatives, because we recognized how naive the libertarian world view actually was. My estimate is that perhaps as many as 15% of the regular posters on FR are libertarians.