I think that Feder makes a good overall point, however, and one which a lot of "conservatives" here on Free Republic need to (re)learn.
There are a lot of people who seem to think that "liberty" and "moral conservatism" are opposites - and this seems to underly the "conservative-libertarian" divide. This supposed dichotomy is completely untrue. They are contiguous elements of the same fabric of self-governing freedom.
I’m fine with ‘moral conservatism’ and I don’t think it’s the opposite of liberty. However, it isn’t liberty when the government is deciding what the morals are. When government decides what’s ‘moral’, that’s how we end up with transfat bans and forced crappy light bulbs as part of our ‘morality’. That ain’t liberty.
I’m tired of liberals forcing their morality or lack-thereof on me. I’m tired of them trying to indoctrinate my children. However, that doesn’t mean I think that the answer is more of the same, but with new management deciding what’s moral.