The guy whose pic we find at the top of this thread is Ronald Reagan. He said: “If you analyze it I believe the very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism.”
If you totally dismiss libertarianism, then you totally dismiss Ronald Reagan.
I figure those who fear libertarianism, equally fear freedom. Often they are mere Posers pretending to be conservatives.
What else could explain their fear? Since libertarianism is likely the most dangerous threat to progressive liberals we have.
Alright. Poseur.
What’s your position on dope, condoms, gay marriage and abortion? Do we hit a quartet?
Oh for crying out loud, you take an opening quote of candidate Reagan in an 1975 interview for a libertarian audience in a tiny libertarian magazine, where he opens with a typical Reagan mention of common ground on economics before he gets around to explaining why he isn't a libertarian, and you think that makes the great CONSERVATIVE hero a libertarian, which he never was.
Reagan is a hero to conservatives, he rallied the religious right, the national defense right, and the economic right, not libertarians, in fact the libertarians best election in history, was running against Reagan in 1980.
As the older people here have pointed out, the Libertarianism of today is as far from the libertarianism of Reagan’s youth as the Democrat party of today is from that of Reagan’s younger years.