[joe fonebone]

"Personally I think that mainstream conservatives are scared sh**less of small 'l' libertarians "
the reason people(mostly single issue conservatives) are afraid of small l libertarians, is because we should actually be called "Strict Constitutionalists", and the constitution, applied as written, would piss off both liberals and conservatives. If you want to know where you fall, ask yourself, have I ever said "There ought to be a law"?...If you have, then you do not believe in the constitution, and are a form of socialist.....hard test to take, and a harder one to admit to...

[Lurker]

is because we should actually be called "Strict Constitutionalists",

If I had a nickel for every time I've started a question with "exactly where in Article 1, Section 8 of the US Constitution is the enumerated power for Congress to...." I'd have a sh** load of nickels.

[Tublecane]

“If you want to know where you fall, ask yourself, have I ever said ‘There ought to be a law’?...If you have, then you do not believe in the constitution, and are a form of socialist”

What?!?! Suddenly everyone who believes is such things as laws is a socialist? Which means, I suppose, everyone save absolute anarchists are socialists.

[Tublecane]

“I ever said ‘There ought to be a law’?...If you have, then you do not believe in the constitution, and are a form of socialist”

Oh, by the way, I wouldn’t have supposed it needs to be mentioned that there are state and local governments, as well as enumerated powers of the federal government, all of which can birth laws in accordance with the Constitution. But you proved me wrong, and apparently some people do need reminding.