"If you analyze it I believe the very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism. I think conservatism is really a misnomer just as liberalism is a misnomer for the liberals — if we were back in the days of the Revolution, so-called conservatives today would be the Liberals and the liberals would be the Tories. The basis of conservatism is a desire for less government interference or less centralized authority or more individual freedom and this is a pretty general description also of what libertarianism is."
How are your efforts working for you? Did you make a lot of progress in the last forty years or did you just get a bigger, badder government? Be honest.
If this is an example of your best work I have to say, your work sucks.
Libertarianism doesn’t need a prominent politician, it is a corroding factor as it supports the left on social issues and fights to move the GOP to the left, and of course the Warren Court which has been hailed for it’s libertarianism.
That is why Reagan was a conservative and not a libertarian, and why even while running for the presidency and being interviewed by libertarians in 1975, he tried to win them over to conservatism, and told them how he was a social conservative and strong on defense.
Reagan was no libertarian, that is why the best election libertarians ever had, was against Reagan, in 1980.