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To: ansel12

“Bull, Reagan was no libertarian, he was conservative and republican.

You lied when you claimed that Reagan called himself a libertarian, he actually admonished them for their liberalism in that same 1975 interview with them.”
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No, not you a liar....

Merely WRONG, as usual, I suspect....

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Semper Watching!
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6 posted on 12/18/2012 9:25:18 AM PST by gunnyg ("A Constitution changed from Freedom, can never be restored; Liberty, once lost, is lost forever...)
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To: gunnyg

You can’t just make things up to feed the left’s machine, called libertarianism.


7 posted on 12/18/2012 9:29:03 AM PST by ansel12 (Romney--guns not for recreation or self-defense"sole purpose of hunting down and killing people".)
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To: gunnyg; ansel12
For what it is worth from a 1975 Reason interview. Reagan say that libertarianism is the heart and soul of conservatism.

"REAGAN: 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. Now, I can’t say that I will agree with all the things that the present group who call themselves Libertarians in the sense of a party say, because I think that like in any political movement there are shades, and there are libertarians who are almost over at the point of wanting no government at all or anarchy. I believe there are legitimate government functions. There is a legitimate need in an orderly society for some government to maintain freedom or we will have tyranny by individuals. The strongest man on the block will run the neighborhood. We have government to insure that we don’t each one of us have to carry a club to defend ourselves. But again, I stand on my statement that I think that libertarianism and conservatism are travelling the same path."

http://reason.com/archives/1975/07/01/inside-ronald-reagan

Not quite calling himself a libertarian but not against them.

9 posted on 12/18/2012 9:48:52 AM PST by Ratman83
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