[hocndoc]

They are part of the coalition of Republicans who have "a belief that laws based on the assumption of personal responsibility and liberty in public matters will make better, smaller government. The assumption is that everyone is an adult."

How is that not " the ideology that has made our country great from the beginning, and that is the combination of liberty and personal responsibility?"

[reasonisfaith]

“How is that not “ the ideology that has made our country great from the beginning, and that is the combination of liberty and personal responsibility?””

Okay, that’s partly it. But it’s more than a belief about what laws will do. True conservatism is based on a belief about what’s right and what’s wrong.

This unifying belief is ultimately much stronger and longer lasting than the current artificial divisions on issues.