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To: Yardstick

The 2000 platform is the same as the one I listed in post 47, nothing has changed, it never does, it is a philosophy.

Reagan was no libertarian, that lonely, 1975 quote is thin pickings from him being interviewed as a presidential candidate, by a libertarian publication, and yes, that interview made clear that he sought the only common ground, economics, he then proceeded to explain that he was a social conservative and pro-military.


58 posted on 01/07/2013 4:02:25 PM PST by ansel12
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To: ansel12

The political platform isn’t a philosophy. There are plenty of libertarians who think the non-initiation of force principle extends to the unborn and therefore justifies laws against abortion. This is actually more consistent with libertarian principle than what’s stated in the platform.

In the interview Reagan sounds like a libertarian in a non-economic way when he says he believes only in self-censorship of the movie industry extending even to pornography. And he sounds libertarian in a non-economic way when he says he doesn’t believe government should protect people from themselves and cites motorcycle helmet laws.

Obviously he talked about economics too because that is a huge area of agreement between libertarians and conservatives.


61 posted on 01/07/2013 4:43:06 PM PST by Yardstick
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