A conservative believes in the sanctity of the individual. Such as the conservatives who gutted the Fourth Amendment and voted to allow pregnant women to be pawed freely at airport checkpoints?
You meant "libertarian," P.J., not "conservative."
Since many moderate/statist Republicans have co-opted the name "conservative" -- "libertarian" is probably a better term.
PJ wrote this in '95, when a lot of us thought "conservative" meant smaller government.