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To: GOP_1900AD
"Liberaltarians are simply Leftists in all respects other than taxation and business regulation. Socially, they are Leftist radicals."

That's probably the most intellectually dishonest and lazy statement on the subject that I've ever seen.
13 posted on 01/05/2007 4:53:09 AM PST by LIConFem (Just opened a new seafood restaurant in Great Britain, called "Squid Pro Quid")
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To: LIConFem; GOP_1900AD

Rather than insult them, let's try to educate them first:

Here's an interview with some former actor named Ron from 1975. It might help.

http://www.reason.com/news/show/29318.html

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.



15 posted on 01/05/2007 3:14:26 PM PST by Eric Blair 2084 (There are some votes money can't buy...For everything else there's 2 years of dopey Liberals.)
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