“You’re saying exactly the opposite of the RR quote at the top and didn’t even notice it.”
No. I did notice the quote. But your interpretation of that statement would require that you believe Reagan advocated the libertine aspects of libertarianism, which so dominate that movement today. But he did not.
He did not, for example, support repealing sodomy laws, enacting gay-marriage laws, the legalization of abortion, nor legalizing marijuana or heroin, to name some of hot-button issues that so incense modern libertarians. Nor did he support the federal government removing from the states, the right to regulate “moral” affairs. If you had insisted to his face that his quote proved that he supported the “libertine libertarian” position on any of these issues, he would have laughed in a most genial manner and very nicely told you you were full of crap.
He took a very “founding-fathers-style libertarianism” view when he used that term. Folks who try to use that quote to impute Reagan’s support for modern, libertine, libertarianism are way off base.
OTOH, folks who use it as a way to point out his support for the basic structure the founding fathers created—a federal government that is limited and small—are correct. It is there that libertarianism and conservatism intersect and share goals.
You’ve got the hot button issues for libertarians wrong, as is typical. As to RR’s libertine aspects, you are aware of course that he was divorced, or does he get a mulligan on that one? Your take on RR’s position on homosexuality is wrong, too. Suggest you read https://www.nationalreview.com/murdock/murdock200312030913.asp. Bottom line, too many paleoconservatives want the government to have too much power.